On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:
The reason they decided to remove netcat is that they "found" out netcat is hacker's tool via a google search :-).
IIRC some popular virus scanners even warn(ed) about netcat being a "remote access tool" or "unwanted program" :-)
You mean the ones which are programmed by the same people who are so paranoid that they think that every muslim is a terrorist? :-| netcat is a "knife" with which you can "cut" error sources but also can "kill" servers; which certainly happens much more often than any other usage (sigh!). Bad bad Baaaaad! %-| This world is going mad these days which is very hard for someone who stays normal a little bit longer that most others... Regards from the still normal Henning Hucke PS: Honestly I would refuse to remove "netcat". Honestly I would easily recommend to remove Yast which I rate as being a much bigger threat to the working safety of a Linux installation than netcat. -- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. -- Aeschylus