From: matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Removing netcat from Cygwin
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:21:59 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1788404360.1798316.1613496119592@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR10MB353096EF5C814F6FB2CDB464B8879@DM6PR10MB3530.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12:05:32 PM EST, Rodney Kissee via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> My company identifies netcat as a hacking tool and is requiring it to be removed from our version of Cygwin.
aside from beating the moron with clue-by-four or locking him in the tape safe, rename binary to 'catnip' andalias nc=/usr/bin/catnip
easy. But the beatings would be my first choice. I mean by their logic, cars kill, and cars have wheels, so slash the tires of the moron in IT so he can't kill anyone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-16 17:05 Rodney Kissee
2021-02-16 17:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-02-16 17:35 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-02-16 18:05 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-16 17:21 ` matthew patton [this message]
2021-02-16 17:29 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2021-02-16 17:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-16 17:40 ` Brian Inglis
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