Re: Socat

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

Max wrote:
> Yep, but there's no Windows version :-(

Download djgpp and re-compile.

> A Windows version of this sort of tool is *mandatory* since it is often 
> used as a backdoor/tunnel on a vulnerable machine. And what OS is more 
> vulnerable than any other ? Hence this mandatory requirement :-)

Bah! The kids that needs a netcat-like program to backdoor a system 
aren't really worthy of owning it in the first place. Spending quality 
coding time so that juvenile idiots (the kind that have a hard time 
grasping the meaning of the switch() statement) have a means of quickly 
doing something non-constructive and possibly illegal is not my idea of fun.

> M@x
>
>
>
> Martin Maèok wrote:
>
>  >On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:36:32AM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
>  >
>  >>Netcat has been totally unmaintained for about a decade, and I think
>  >>Nmap users would benefit from a tool similar to hping2 that is more
>  >>oriented toward their needs.
>  >
>  >
>  >I'm still happy with hping2 (ok, lets forget about the patches we had
>  >to apply to it ;-) *except* its poor ICMP support (sing is better here).
>  >
>  >Anyway, your proposal for Netcat enhancement almost exactly fits
>  >Socat. Have you heard of it? Wonderful tool (and GPL) ...
>  >
>  >http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
>  >
>  >Martin Maèok
>  >ICT Security Consultant
>  >
>
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