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by lloeki 5080 days ago
> telnet and gopher were used by a few thousands servers only

I can't speech for Gopher, but I routinely see telnet and rsh all around the industry, where anyone with control of some Windows machine on the network can sniff critical PLC and server passwords. Even when SSH is available for the servers. It is hopefully a changing situation as servers get replaced/upgraded and SSH gets more and more pervasive.