🦿 Lucian Marin Apple removed telnet from High Sierra. I used it to connect to memcached. Apple is really going downhill. Should I get an average PC and install Linux?

🐹 Adam Minccino You can telnet with syncterm.bbsdev.net. It's free and cross platform.

Mark Dain I *really* hope that memcached instance was on your local network. Telnet isn't encrypted and anything data sent is open for people to see. Apple also removed PPP based VPNs because they have ancient and broken encryption & authentication. Similar effort: App Transport Security. You just shouldn't be using Telnet, rather SSH if you can - that's what they're thinking. If you absolutely need it, you could SSH in and use Telnet on 127.0.0.1? It's probably also available on Homebrew. Apple isn't going downhill, they're discouraging insecure practices