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ars on Dec 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Textbook Buffer Overflow: A Look at the FreeBSD ...

SSL telnet was created (May 2004) when SSH was not particularly popular yet.

yason on Dec 27, 2011 [–]

SSH was actively replacing telnet in the late 90's already in any decent institution. At universities it was pretty much the standard. (At least on my side of the globe.)

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