> You talk about me, my, mine, my network, my computer. But you're promoting a "distro". That means you're distributing software. It's not yours anymore.

It's OURS. It was never YOURS. Get it?

> Attackers on a network will use techniques to "pivot". Once a "foothold" is established then they scan for other places to attack. They will indeed get inside "your" computer, or router, and then compromise your telnetd.

Oh no! Someone is going to hack into my LAN! I guess I'd better keep the shotgun loaded.

Are you aware that your entire computer is backdoored, starting at the CPU level on up? It's like you don't realize this. Your 'security' = gaping asshole, same as everyone else these days. And you're worried about telnet?

> It comes back to the liberty of swinging your arms vs. the proximity to my nose. If your distro is connected to a network, then you're responsible and accountable for security issues that result.

Fascinating new legal/morality theory you've concocted. No, I am in fact not responsible for some noob running a telnetd on the open internet then getting hacked. Craziness.

Wait a second. Are you also the type of person who is susceptible to the bullshit belief that, because I never got the, quote-unquote ''covid vaccine'' (nor the flu vaccine, nor any other), that I'm somehow a threat to you? Are you one of those people too?

> You don't seem to understand the CVE under discussion.

You don't seem to understand much of anything.

> The reason "telnet" was deprecated is

I've just explained to you that it hasn't been 'deprecated' at all ON MY SYSTEM. What you choose to do is irrelevant.

> As for "traceroute", I'm not sure it's "useless or dangerous", but it can be misleading and definitely superfluous. It is widely misinterpreted by novices trying to prove something about their WAN connectivity.

And here we come to the epicenter of your problematic thinking:

I am not a novice. I'm a power user. Get it? I've been doing this shit for decades. I'm sick to death of my entire life being ruled and dictated by the 'needs' of morons. You can keep your Play-Skool OS and padded walls, thanks.

Really, your entire philosophy is so full of logical contradictions. You're scared to death of telnet/traceroute, but you're cool with having this giant package ecosystem where you are constantly streaming Other People's Binaries to your system, and you think that is safe, and would never be hacked or used against you. Clueless.

Go argue with a brick wall; you'll get further. I know what I'm doing.

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