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2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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It's an interesting write up... I'm a bit surprised there are/were that many internet facing telnetd instances online. Maybe it's just the sheer amount of ancient routers & such that were deployed with telnet enabled by default and are still plugged in and running to this day.