Any business that has a telnet daemon able to be reached by an unauthenticated user is negligent. Just the fact that everything is in the clear is reason enough to never use it outside of protected networks.

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dec0dedab0de 19 hours ago | parent [-]

unless it doesn’t matter if it’s evesdropped

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FabHK 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Traffic could be tampered as well.

	▲	nomel 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes that doesn't matter either. That is the valid use case of a plain-text protocol like telnet: doesn't matter.