On May 7, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> The fact that telnet is insecure in some (now rare) use cases (any time you 
> enter a password)
> is just one more reason to let it go.

If I type my password in an NC connection is it somehow magically protected?

For its most common daily use-case today ("get me to a specific port on the 
other host") telnet is no more or less secure than nc is.

D



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