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Written by nixCraft 🐧 on 2025-01-22 at 15:47

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!

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Written by Chris Hessert on 2025-01-22 at 15:48

@nixCraft

Wait 'til they discover ping! 😉

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Written by Florian Judith on 2025-01-22 at 15:48

@nixCraft "Why does this guy can't spell EHLO ??"

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Written by Koree A. Smith :stl_blues: on 2025-01-22 at 15:48

@nixCraft I’ve been asked by actual other IT workers “are you hacking?” when doing exactly the same thing.

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Written by Duncan Blues on 2025-01-22 at 15:51

@koree @nixCraft

Did you wear a dark hoodie?

Can't be hacking unless wearing a dark hoodie! I thought everyone knew that!

🙃

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Written by defraid on 2025-01-22 at 15:50

@nixCraft real telnet (which you should not use) ? Or ssh which is same magic for youngsters ?

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Written by bazkie, bonkwave superstar on 2025-01-22 at 15:51

@nixCraft hahaha noob kids! git gud! lrn2telnet

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Written by Nathan A. Stine on 2025-01-22 at 15:52

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

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Written by Hans-Cees 🌳🌳🤢🦋🐈🐈🍋🍋🐝🐜 on 2025-01-22 at 15:54

@nixCraft ah, that mighty feeling of wisdom

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Written by whoosh on 2025-01-22 at 15:54

@nixCraft

yours is a fine art indeed

swaks(1)

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Written by Schamschula on 2025-01-22 at 15:55

@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/.

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Written by Ricardson :slackware: on 2025-01-22 at 15:59

@nixCraft :)

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Written by WinterKnight :donor: on 2025-01-22 at 16:03

@nixCraft I learned about that when I working on my OSCP and it blew me away initially. I had no idea.

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Written by nsoolo on 2025-01-22 at 16:07

@nixCraft Currently I always test my emails with https://www.mail-tester.com and it is excellent.

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Written by Barry Rowlingson on 2025-01-22 at 16:08

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

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Written by Paul_IPv6 on 2025-01-22 at 16:13

@nixCraft

:)

i do admit i haven't used telnet in eons but i ssh into my mail server and grep things in logs all the time. ;)

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Written by Dr. King Schultz on 2025-01-22 at 16:22

@nixCraft The only telnet I did was to fetch HTTP pages manually

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Written by kaitou on 2025-01-22 at 16:26

@nixCraft

Well, the only use for telnet nowadays is for TCP testing/debugging.

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Written by Dave Addison on 2025-01-22 at 16:27

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

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Written by Éric Bréhault on 2025-01-22 at 16:59

@nixCraft do you mean shocked that telnet does not have SSL support or shocked that you were sending emails? 😂

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Written by Miah Johnson on 2025-01-22 at 17:40

@nixCraft Show them how you can do it with HTTP as well =)

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Written by Miah Johnson on 2025-01-22 at 17:41

@nixCraft If you really want to blow their minds, do IRC.

So much "old tech" was friendly and worked in a straight forward manner.

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Written by Eli the Bearded on 2025-01-22 at 18:56

@miah @nixCraft

And redis.

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Written by Bernd Herd on 2025-01-22 at 17:46

@nixCraft Is she/he aware that your can enter a computer virus over the keyboard without any USB access or special software installed?

It might not be completely wrong to understand how computers work.

Nice to see...

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-fearsome-file-formats#t=505

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Written by Ham Ninja (Chris Claborne) on 2025-01-22 at 18:14

@nixCraft Pretty soon, they’ll be calling you “Wally”.

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Written by Sterling on 2025-01-22 at 18:29

@nixCraft

When I hear things like this it reminds me of the joke about the guy who returned his chain saw because it didn't cut wood.

The proprietor took it out and pulled the cord...vroom....

Then the customer said:

"What's that sound ! ! ! "

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Written by Andy H on 2025-01-22 at 18:37

@nixCraft feeling seen here 😁

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Written by OldGeek on 2025-01-22 at 21:02

@nixCraft damn I don't just feel it...

I may have sent some emails, allegedly, from whitehouse.gov in the day...

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