On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> boom, you are done. Your system is no more secure or insecure than it was
> before.

Isn't it possibly slightly less secure to run telnet on a port >= 1024? If
inetd dies for some reason, a user could setup their on telnetd on that
port and grab passwords or whatever. Of course, inetd shouldn't be dying,
but it's happened to me before (recently, in fact... egcs codegen bug,
perhaps?)
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