The Mirrai attacks in 2016/17 were largely successful because of the over-reliance of IOT devices using Telnet for remote-admin. I'm writing an essay for uni which touches on this topic, and I'm wondering if it would be accurate for me to say that the IOT devices use of Telnet, is because of the CPU load which would be required to use an encrypted protocol such as SSH.
If not; what is the reason for using such an outdated protocol? sheer incompetence?
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