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Just last week I set up a telnet connection to give a piece of legacy hardware access to the rest of the world. Better than throwing an old computer in the gar

Just last week I set up a telnet connection to give a piece of legacy hardware access to the rest of the world. Better than throwing an old computer in the garbage. People act like if you're not connecting through SSH that you'll magically set the internet on fire. Not every connection needs to be secure. I don't care if hackers see me reading Radio France International.

sigjuice 3y ago
But surely you would care if ads or other junk is getting injected into whatever you are reading?
- applied_heat 3y ago
  Ads are already injected in just about everything I read, except for here
qawwads 3y ago
People insist on ssh being the secure option then go on to write confidential informations on Google Doc, then copy-paste it in Google Translate for translation and ChatGPT to get a summary, then mail everything using webmail.
mk_stjames 3y ago
I had an old device that spit out some odd format serial data I wanted to log recently. I pulled out an random ESP8266 on a tiny board from a drawer and quickly wrote some code to read a single pin for the Rx. I didn't have any memory onbaord to store anything, and figured it would be cool to just dump this data onto my network and use something else to check what the current value being reported was and log it on another machine. I could have used any number of packages that would create a little host on the ESP8266, or something that sends out MQTT packages to another server, etc etc. but you know what was quickest? Telnet server on port 23, open, blasting out the buffered serial data once every second. It just sits there and does this. And if I want the data I just point a dashboard to that IP at that port and out it flows. If the device loses power and reboots, it is back up in a fraction of a second. Security? who cares. it's some random numbers on my internal home network.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  I often use telnet for this sort of thing. It's perfect for it.

sigjuice 3y ago

But surely you would care if ads or other junk is getting injected into whatever you are reading?

applied_heat 3y ago
Ads are already injected in just about everything I read, except for here

qawwads 3y ago

People insist on ssh being the secure option then go on to write confidential informations on Google Doc, then copy-paste it in Google Translate for translation and ChatGPT to get a summary, then mail everything using webmail.

mk_stjames 3y ago

I had an old device that spit out some odd format serial data I wanted to log recently. I pulled out an random ESP8266 on a tiny board from a drawer and quickly wrote some code to read a single pin for the Rx. I didn't have any memory onbaord to store anything, and figured it would be cool to just dump this data onto my network and use something else to check what the current value being reported was and log it on another machine. I could have used any number of packages that would create a little host on the ESP8266, or something that sends out MQTT packages to another server, etc etc. but you know what was quickest? Telnet server on port 23, open, blasting out the buffered serial data once every second. It just sits there and does this. And if I want the data I just point a dashboard to that IP at that port and out it flows. If the device loses power and reboots, it is back up in a fraction of a second. Security? who cares. it's some random numbers on my internal home network.

JohnFen 3y ago
I often use telnet for this sort of thing. It's perfect for it.