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Hmm I feel some of the hardware hasn't been properly battle tested yet. Something a bit more old school might be a better choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

©Geni (talk) 21:05, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

• Good one! -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 21:23, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

• This may have comic aspects, but it is well informed and insightful. And it is true that TELNET had one clear advantage - it dates back to a time when program was program and data was data. There probably really isn't a special character sequence that indicates the following output should actually be saved and executed to take over your computer. I miss that kind of program that you could look and see you genuinely can't hack me with it, versus these things that have a new critical vulnerability whenever the old one expires. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if even the TELNET approach doesn't work against that Tor exploit, because (even if Snowden has never said a peep about it) I am suspicious that your saved uuencoded kiddie porn would be recognized by your friendly local antivirus program as a "threat", duly reported to their site, and it would upload a "patch" to you to help fix the virus, with predictable results. But I've never heard such a thing in the news ... and doubt I will this time either. Wnt (talk) 14:38, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
  • @Wnt: [1] [2]. Bawolff (talk) 22:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
    • Oh hell no, that wasn't supposed to happen! Wnt (talk) 22:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
• It's always better to write your own telnet client. Every session, for the best security. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:30, 2 April 2016 (UTC).
  

• Hmm. So how long until Wikimedia provides a gopher server? Or does Tim's refusal to consider "a web gateway to the Telnet server" answer that question? -- llywrch (talk) 20:25, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
  • If they need a copy of the source, I recommend using the Archie search engine. Praemonitus (talk) 21:45, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

• The temptation to actually download Tor and find if there's anything listening at that onion address is almost overwhelming. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 10:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC).*
• I thought "manpage" was a typo but the URL seems to suggest that's the correct spelling.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:11, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
• If you're wondering what it looks like, check out my user page from nearly 5 years ago. In August, I created a Telnet IEG proposal for an nCurses-style Wikipedia interface. A month later, User:cscott built this simple scraper + telnet server in Node.js. — Dispenser 03:35, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
• Where do I submit feature requests? This needs to be more like the old www browser that put [number] after each link and put a table-of-links at the end of every page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 03:17, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
  • https://github.com/cscott/wikipedia-telnet/issues is a reasonable place to put feature requests and bug reports. C. Scott Ananian (talk) 18:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC)