Telnet issue

[Harry Putnam]

"fly over" <fly_over at soon.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wana ask about telnet security. i have heard many times that telnet is insecure and use secure shell i.e. ssh. as about telnet it is said that pasword is transfer in text format not encrypted. Could anyone please tell me how can i view someones password or data transfering using telnet ?

Discovering a password isn't done with telnet itself.  You need
something that can watch network traffic in and out.  When a telnet
session is running, the data it transmits goes over the wire in plain
text.  You need a network sniffing tool like tcpdump (there are
others) to view that traffic.