27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
3:32 a.m.
On 03/26/2016 09:58 PM, David Thornton wrote:
"As for security, I do a fair bit of work with Cisco gear and am a CCNA. Telnet is very often used to configure them, which is plain text."
Oh god my eyes.
I don't recommend telnet, but many people do use it. However, it's not as risky as it used to be. Back in the days of coax or hub based Ethernet, anyone could see all the traffic on the network. This made it easy to intercept IDs and passwords. With switches, in order to do that, you'd need one of those taps I mentioned earlier or management access to the switch. Of course, telnet still shouldn't be used over the Internet. Also, while some gear supports ssh, there is still a lot that's telnet only.