safety of netkit-telnet-0.17

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, M.W. Chang wrote:
> What if I just want to run a bbs package, something that's not sensitive?

THe answer is still no.  There is no reason not to use ssh, other than
lazyness & ignorance.

>
> > 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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