Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 week agoI share the author’s nostalgia for Telnet, as a kid who spent many lost hours trying to telnet into “interesting things” at the dawn of the internet.
We had a transmitter on our building for satalite backhaul. I used to have fun using it to telnet into various stuff in orbit.
You’d be surprise at how many times they didn’t even bother with credentials.
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Indeed, it’s amazing how much stuff was / is out there in the open.
Hobbyist use of unencrypted protocols like telnet can be very educational, and the other commenter is right that not everything needs to be encrypted, especially within the confines of a homelab, for instance.
My support for ending telnet use is much more about things like IoT systems, industrial hardware and so on talking in the clear and being vulnerable to compromise.
This isn’t about telnet, per se, but is a good example of the problem: news.satnews.com/…/russia-intercepts-europes-key-…