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		VladVladikoff 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Day the Telnet Died On the bright side that CVE seems like pretty great news for the hardware hacking community hoping to get root on embedded devices which have open telnetd.

josteink 21 hours ago [–]

I just tried on a Zyxel Wifi AP I have.

It seems to use a different telnetd (busybox?), because from what I can tell it's not prone to this error.

VladVladikoff 14 hours ago | [–]

Damn :(

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