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A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

112 points · 46 comments · paimapi

ErroneousBosh · 1789634813 · focus · HN ↗
> In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994)
> That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.
Yeah ARM would like to have a word with you. I'd been using RISC on the desktop for about five years by then and I was not an early adopter.
1. j16sdiz · 1789649539 · focus · HN ↗
  and SPARC was one of the top choice for server where telnet were run.
  1. fl7305 · 1789650187 · focus · HN ↗
    and the DEC Alpha RISC CPU was on fire, and ran circles around the desktop CISC CPUs
    ErroneousBosh · 1789663200 · focus · HN ↗
    I wish I'd never given away my MIPS R2000-based DECStation 3100.

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