Source: Hacker News
Article note: Holy shit, there was is an 11 year old unathenticated remote root shell bug in gnu telnetd, and preceding the disclosure, at least one tier 1 carrier in the US started just fuckin dropping traffic on port 23, causing a massive drop to like 1/3 of previous average global traffic.
...It's probably not an unreasonable policy, if you're exposing telnet to the Internet in 2026, you're either doing retro shit, or more likely at the intersection of a terrible network configuration decision and some Internet of Shit gadget that hasn't been patched since the buildroot used to generate the image was cloned 18mo before the product hit the market.
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