Do you trust everyone in this World??

I hadn't heard much of Telnet before this unit, nor had I used it before. I followed the instructions in the study area, and read up a bit more on what Telnet is. Now understanding that it is a Telecommunication Network or more easily understood as a service providing us access to another computer using the command-line interface. So off I headed to try my luck with task A.

Getting onto telnet was quite straight forward, following the steps in the study area I ended up at Deakin library searching for books written by Bennahum. These results were then quickly displayed on my screen and I was easily able to email this to my Curtin email address.
A very short time later the email arrived in my inbox.




The Boo boo's of Telnet!
Telnet was developed back in 1969 when very few people had access to the internet, those that were lucky enough to have it were part of the computer departments in LARGE organisations or worked for research based organisations. So the security issues that we face today with the internet weren't even thought of back then however unfortunately overtime telnet has become less popular since the internet became the 'in thing' in the 90's. As Telnet is unable to encrypt the information sent between the client and the receiver it allows hackers to easily gain access to private information being sent between the two computers.

I found this service to be a quick and straight forward process and so far based on my experiences would not hesitate in using Telnet again if it wasn't for its lack in security in todays world!!