I often get chided whensoever I happen to mention casual telnet or ftp usage here in the latter days of the early 21st century and I generally take it in stride because I am going to keep doing what I’m going to keep doing and my reasons are my own.

I usually do not reply at all to such chides, but if I did, it’d generally be to utter something along the lines of “having a false sense of security is worse security than having no security mechanisms in place at all.” Days like today are why.