On Tue, 7 May 2013, Derek Balling wrote:
On May 7, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Tracy Reed <tr...@ultraviolet.org> 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.
The general Linux/Unix environment does evolve over time and commands get
replaced or become completely obsolete[1]. Netcat is over 17 years old[2]
and has been in Debian since 1998[3] so you can hardly say it is brand
new.
Sure our fingers get used to typing "top" or "telnet" or "egrep" but
learning a new command every year or two would hopefully come within the
area of "try not to be that crazy old Sysadmin looking after the obsolete
system who will get laid off when it is finally replaced because he
doesn't know anything newer than Solaris 7"[4]
[1] http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix2.1/unixnut/appb_01.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat
[3]
http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/netcat/netcat_1.10-38_changelog
[4] We all know one.
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