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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:47:39 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I was testing a mail server today by telnetting to it, and a young employee was shocked that you could do that. It made me feel like I was 60+ years old!

   • Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:53:04 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     @nixCraft ours was an open relay at college and we had fun with that.

   • Schamschula (schamschula@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 00:55:36 JST Schamschula

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     @nixCraft Reminds me of the time I was over at the SGI office in the late 1990's. We needed to access the Indigo workstations in the departmental computer lab on campus. I first telneted into the Linux server, and then over to the SGIs. The fellow was totally shocked that one could do this. Of course, these days s/telnet/ssh/.

   • Barry Rowlingson (geospacedman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 01:08:32 JST Barry Rowlingson

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     @nixCraft ah, the joys of SMTP server remote code execution exploits...

   • Dave Addison (dave_id_a@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 01:27:57 JST Dave Addison

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     @nixCraft I have also done this, but I am 60+ years old. 😞