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

[Michael Erskine]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 20:48, James Gilbert wrote:
> Tom Bird wrote:
> > 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?

So you can telnet straight into the box and remove it. :)

Regards,
Michael Erskine

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