Blocking connections from telnet

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> And I can't stress it enough...DON'T USE TELNET if you are exposed to
> the internet in ANY way.  Install and use ssh instead.  telnet is the
> biggest security hole there ever was (bigger than IIS and Outlook even,
> and that's saying a LOT!)

Its scary, the number of people on this list still using telnet...

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Aj.
Sys. Admin / Developer