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Animatsyesterday at 11:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

So eleven years ago someone put a backdoor in the Telnet daemon.

Who?

Where's the commit?


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Arubisyesterday at 11:50 PM

Telnet's cleartext and always has been. A backdoor seems like overkill.

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mmoosstoday at 12:15 AM

> backdoor

Do you mean that it's intentional? Why do you think so?

parl_matchyesterday at 11:38 PM

It wasn't a backdoor, just a very serious security bug. Congrats on jumping straight to conspiracy and paranoia, though.

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