Telnet was Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)
Christian Liendo
cliendo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 13:44:00 CDT 2016
Agree. It's quite easy to telnet to a port to see if you get a response.
Do it a lot.
> Are ifconfig, netstat, traceroute, et al really insecure? (Maybe a case
> could be made for traceroute) These types of changes to the core of
> userland are epic dumb IMHO. Telnet is very useful for debugging, and
> certainly dropping telnetd is a good thing - which everyone has done.
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