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by marcodiego 1667 days ago
Most important thing when using BBS through telnet: it uses no cryptography!
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jbledsoe2112 1667 days ago
Simple technology. Most newer ones support SSH if that's what you want.
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reaperducer 1667 days ago
That's a feature, not a bug. If I'm using telnet, I'm on a machine that lacks the horsepower to encrypt beyond rot13.
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