Re: Telnet and FTP to Historic

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 03/12/2020 00:32, Scott Bradner wrote:
> any prediction son what % of future IoT implementations would drop 
> telnet if the IETF moves the spec to historic?

That's a fair point. (And why I said it'd be credible but
didn't say I'd help with the I-D:-)

On 03/12/2020 00:41, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Replacing telnet with ssh and still using passwords that never get
> changed is less secure in my opinion.   You mention "sshd_config",
> but frankly, if you knew how to do that, then you wouldn't have the
> problem in the first place.

I don't agree. If we assume the system developer is careless,
then it's easier to recover from such a careless developer
if they misused ssh than if they misused telnet I'd say.

S.