telnet is extremely old and just because there is still widespread use of telnet or the daemon, doesn't provide a valid reason to keep using it. these trivial vulnerabilities keep popping up and if you still insist of using telnet, you deserve getting pwned
On Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 at 3:31 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:05:58AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > Who uses telnet anyway? It's deprecated. Everyone uses ssh for any kind of > > remote access. > > TELNET != login. Before you utter those words again in the same > sentence, please read the Telnet RFC. Notice how the term "login" > appears nowhere in that document. > > Telnet is a general purpose way to obtain a remote terminal connection. > That it is sometimes used for remote logins is simply a byproduct > of terminals being used to remotely log in to hosts. But it's far > from the only thing Telnet is used for. > > --lyndon >
