Reply to post: Re: Telnet

Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone

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Re: Telnet

I thought the MSFT shills only appeared when someone started bad mouthing MSFT? I guess business must be slow at the moment.

BTW, you dropped your strawman.

Telnet on Windows is a useful tool for debugging some issues - while their are better tools available, they aren't always available for installation in a given environment so having telnet as an OS add-in is useful although arguable PowerShell provides replacements that are provide most of the functionality, although a little more effort maybe required for the average telnet jockey. Having this option would make Windows a security risk in Bloombergs eyes.

Huawei having support for telnet that isn't enabled by default BUT is used within Vodafone for some purpose wouldn't be a reason to dismiss Huawei as a viable vendor. As Bloomberg seem to suggest.

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