On: Show HN: A library to add a command promp (and telnet) to your programs

[onion2k]

If you do it with telnet then so could I.. :)

[p4bl0 → onion2k]

Not really if the socket is bound to localhost and the process runs on my machine :).

[jacobush → p4bl0]

... But eBay could.

[nsteel → jacobush]

How? Ebay could send HTTP requests to the local server but what would that achieve?

[jacobush → nsteel]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436775

[nsteel → jacobush]

Unless I am missing something, a port scan is not a telnet connection. I still don't see how eBay (or anyone) has access through the browser.