Originally posted here by TidaLphasE23
and isn't telnet a security risk, or a hole in the O/S ??
Ah come on you gotta be ****ing shiting me...

Telnet is terminal emulation software. If your compromised to a point where I have enought access to run telnet and other things then your already ****ed. If I could run any command I want on your system then FTP, TFTP, debug, interpreters, compilers, command line text editing, or hell alot of browsers can be ran VIA: command line bringing users to some nasty scripts and encoded executables. Any number of programs could be used for seting up droppers or uploading a wide variety of things for further compromise.