RE: Telnet: Dead at 35 - Happy Birthday and RIP

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

Dummy. It's just not installed by default. 

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off
> Telnet Client

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 6:52 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Telnet: Dead at 35 - Happy Birthday and RIP

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Kevin Poulsen on 27B Stroke 6:

[snip]

For all the bells and whistle added to Microsoft's Vista, the OS is the
first internet-age Windows release to omit an important vestige of
networking history -- Telnet, which turns 35 tomorrow.

It was April 3rd, 1972 that Jon Postel published RFC 318, a svelte 4,600
word document describing a "standard method of interfacing terminal
devices at one site to processes at another site."

Devised in a simpler time, Telnet has no encryption and doesn't come
close to meeting modern security standards for logging onto a remote
machine.
It's gone virtually unused for years (geeks still use the client to
debug TCP services, but only because it's there). Yet somehow the Telnet
client has always managed to stick around in Windows, Linux and Mac OS
releases like the gill slits in human embryos. Until now.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/telnet_dead_at_.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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