<p>telnet might be useful for running things like machinery such as a generator or maybe an industrial centrifuge... <br>
of course such things only run in a network which is properly firewalled. an internal private network where node based security need not be worried about in the first place. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 24, 2011 11:10 AM, "George Rosamond" <<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 12/24/11 10:45, Edward Capriolo wrote:<br>
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Telnet? Crap I am really worried that my internet facing echo service might<br>
be compromised. Not.<br>
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On Friday, December 23, 2011, Pete Wright<<a href="mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org" target="_blank">pete@nomadlogic.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:57:10 -0800, George Rosamond<<br>
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<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com" target="_blank">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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For those who didn't see this. . . wow.<br>
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thanks for the heads up gman!<br>
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Awww Ed. . . you told me all your boxes still were listening on tcp/23!<br>
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The significance of the vulnerabilities is more about quantity. Thought Colin Percival's email was compromised.<br>
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And freebsd-update seems to bork on some of the libc stuff.<br>
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g<br>
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