safety of netkit-telnet-0.17

M.W. Chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:56:46 PDT 2004


What if I just want to run a bbs package, something that's not sensitive?

> Its plaintext, its bad.  You don't need any buffer exploits to exploit
> telnet.  Its a huge security hole all on its own.
> 
> 

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