[Nottingham] Isn't this from 40 years ago? [Fwd: -- Sun Solaris Telnet Worm]

[James Gilbert]

Tom Bird wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Wow, this sounds like a blast from the past!
>>
>> For other than internal debug work, I thought telnet had been long
>> abandoned to the naive days of old of open systems and no passwords...
>>
>> I guess this is an example of how CERT or the CERT posting will be used
>> in statistics to claim that the whole of unix and linux are flawed.
>
> When you buy a sun box, they ship it with a preinstalled solaris 
> (you'd be crazy to use it in production but it's there) that has more 
> or less everything installed.  Including telnetd, activated, waiting...
>
Does anyone know why?

Jamie