For those who use it at work on a network telnet is sniffable. I wouldn't want to upset a coworker and then find out that they've run "rm -rf" on my music partitions. Sure I could rebuild it all, but why go through the pain?

(Note that as I don't have any co-workers at the moment, and I'm not the kind of person to go around deliberately upsetting people, this isn't likely to happen to me, but I'd still like to see ssh on the empeg).