enjoyed this telnetd analysis.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

enjoyed this telnetd analysis. (if you can’t believe anyone has a legitimate operational reason to run telnet, you live in a cozy world indeed) https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve-2026-32746/

[rodgerd@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea it is delightful “That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.” Made my eye twitch like an old man who realises that his youth has become sufficiently history that the details have flattened out

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea do you have a specific example of such a legit need? I do not typically think of myself as “sheltered” but this one eludes me