: a telecommunications protocol providing specifications for emulating a remote computer terminal so that one can access a distant computer and function online using an interface that appears to be part of the user's local system
telnet
intransitive verb
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The infected devices then attempt to crack the telnet password by guessing default and commonly used credential pairs.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
PuTTY is an open source secure shell and telnet application.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
The plan never came to fruition, but Gibson got to know the band; the Edge showed him how to telnet.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
More enterprising hakchi2 users can also add two interesting new tweaks to the SNES Classic, though these require some telnet operations.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
PuTTY is an open source secure shell and telnet application.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
The plan never came to fruition, but Gibson got to know the band; the Edge showed him how to telnet.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
More enterprising hakchi2 users can also add two interesting new tweaks to the SNES Classic, though these require some telnet operations.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
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“Telnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telnet. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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