Re: Telnetd Vulnerability Report

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon () orthanc ca>]

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:05:58AM -0500, kf503bla () duck com 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