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MaulingMonkey on Nov 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a...

And if you're going to cherry pick tiny slices, I'd rather pick the slice:

"SSH lets me communicate with a server securely, more simply than via Telnet."

By the same vein, HTTPS is "simpler" than HTTP in this regard.

Ditto for many possible BGP replacements.

klodolph on Nov 8, 2016 [–]

That seems like wordplay, to me. Does a car make it "simpler" to travel 60 miles an hour down the freeway, compared to walking?

SSH is more complex and more secure than Telnet.

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