Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-04-01/Technology report

Hmm I feel some of the hardware hasn't been properly battle tested yet. Something a bit more old school might be a better choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

©Geni (talk) 21:05, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Good one!  21:23, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


 * This may have comic aspects, but it is well informed and insightful. And it is true that TELNET had one clear advantage - it dates back to a time when program was program and data was data.  There probably really isn't a special character sequence that indicates the following output should actually be saved and executed to take over your computer.  I miss that kind of program that you could look and see you genuinely can't hack me with it, versus these things that have a new critical vulnerability whenever the old one expires.  That said, I wouldn't be surprised if even the TELNET approach doesn't work against that Tor exploit, because (even if Snowden has never said a peep about it) I am suspicious that your saved uuencoded kiddie porn would be recognized by your friendly local antivirus program as a "threat", duly reported to their site, and it would upload a "patch" to you to help fix the virus, with predictable results.  But I've never heard such a thing in the news ... and doubt I will this time either. Wnt (talk) 14:38, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 * . Bawolff (talk) 22:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh hell no, that wasn't supposed to happen! Wnt (talk) 22:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's always better to write your own  client.  Every session, for the best security.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:30, 2 April 2016 (UTC).


 * Hmm. So how long until Wikimedia provides a gopher server? Or does Tim's refusal to consider "a web gateway to the Telnet server" answer that question? -- llywrch (talk) 20:25, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
 * If they need a copy of the source, I recommend using the Archie search engine. Praemonitus (talk) 21:45, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * The temptation to actually download Tor and find if there's anything listening at that onion address is almost overwhelming. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC).*
 * I thought "manpage" was a typo but the URL seems to suggest that's the correct spelling.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  20:11, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * If you're wondering what it looks like, check out my user page from nearly 5 years ago.  In August, I created a Telnet IEG proposal for an nCurses-style Wikipedia interface.  A month later, User:cscott built this simple scraper + telnet server in Node.js.  — Dispenser 03:35, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Where do I submit feature requests? This needs to be more like the old www browser that put [number] after each link and put a table-of-links at the end of every page.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  03:17, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * https://github.com/cscott/wikipedia-telnet/issues is a reasonable place to put feature requests and bug reports. C. Scott Ananian (talk) 18:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC)