From: Andrew Haninger (ahaninggmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 12:10:15 CDT

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> If you need this on as the norm, please at least use TCP wrappers to
> limit from where it can be accessed, and change any used passwords
> immediately after reestablishing control.

I think the real insecurity in telnet comes not from buffer-overflows
and whatnot, but rather from people sniffing the network and getting
your password in a nice convenient program window. Actually, my guess
is that the telnet daemon is probably quite secure in terms of remote
exploits.

Try it sometime on a small temporary network. Start ethereal and the
login over telnet to some machine. Right-click on a telnet packet and
select "Follow TCP Stream". In the next window, view the stream as
ASCII. Hey, look, it's your password. This is what convinced me that
telnet is bad.

-Andy

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