I have no intention to make the discussion as a "security" bashing (i.e our security team), but if anyone considered removing netcat as unreasonable, it was also decided to remove timezone, they also asked to remove util-linux :-), which obviously cannot be removed. It was at that point that I decided no point to reason with them. (This is true, I cannot believe anyone suggest this) Anyway, I was trying to find out whether anyone did remove netcat and so far, for those responded, no one seems to have removed netcat. Thank you for letting me know that I am not the minority. --- François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
[Bill Wilson]
The reason they decided to remove netcat is that they "found" out netcat is hacker's tool via a google search :-).
Hackers also use `ls' and `cp', you know :-) Rootkits often replace `ls', among other tools. So, you might suggest `ls' be removed as well! What I really mean here is that some common sense is needed. `netcat' is a useful tool for you, just like a flurry of others.
-- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
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