Re: National Security Backdoor in telnetd - all versions.

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:50:15 GMT

Au Naturel Productions wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:03:05 +0200, erik wrote:
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>>Don't make us laugh. OpenBSD does not even support telnet anymore.
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> Not to mention that most sane sysadmins aren't installing telnet (less
> Winders) due to the pure lack of security anyway..

You need the *client*, for testing out TCP ports on other machines.
Unfortunately, a lot of switch and router hardware still uses telnet,
due to the unconstitutional US regulations on exporting encryption tools.