Ancient, unsecure.  Quicker, yes.  But the source of
password swiping for a long time. I banned cleartext telnet
or telnet with reusable passwords in 1995.

Quoting mackstann (mack@incise.org):
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 03:31:11AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > This is not in a security-critical environment, so turning off encryption
> > or using very short keys would be ok.
> 
> Why not use telnet?