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shoulda fired whoever left telnet running on the client's server first?
by empressplay 11y ago
shoulda fired whoever left telnet running on the client's server first?
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoThe client themselves would often leave the telnet service running because their employees would use it to connect to the server internally. Our clients were not the most tech-savy individuals, either, so if it was an issue where we needed to fix something and they hadn't bothered to turn the SSH service on, we could either call them and bounce around personnel until we found someone with root access whom we could convince to turn on the SSH daemon...or we could use telnet. This, to my mind, mirrors the "jaywalking" metaphor. It was bad practice, but it was either "Fight the client and force them to improve their own security so that we can safely assist them," or, "Do something we know is unsafe in order to get the job done quickly so that the client will stop bitching at us while paradoxically making it more difficult for us to help them."