alt Hacker NewsNote that this is much more dangerous than visiting a website.
Are you being hyperbolic or do you seriously think the attack surface area of ANSI escape sequences is 'much more' than, say, Javascrpt?
Note that this is much more dangerous than visiting a website.
Are you being hyperbolic or do you seriously think the attack surface area of ANSI escape sequences is 'much more' than, say, Javascrpt?
JavaScript has to escape the browser sandbox, does telnet have a similar sandbox? Or can it access the system directly?
I don't know the answer but if telnet can directly access the system that seems more dangerous irrespective of the attack surface.