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Comment by extra88

8 years ago

For the same reason Windows came with a telnet client?

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peterwwillis  8 years ago

This.

Every router for the past 10 years has shipped with an SSH client. If you wanted to login to it securely from a Windows box, you had to download Putty first, or enable some janky self-signed web interface.

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