This one time, at band camp, Hendrik Sattler said: > Am Montag 12 März 2007 17:43 schrieb Warren Turkal: > > On Monday 12 March 2007 10:08, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > Is there any real need for such a tool in Debian? It's not an > > > administrative tool and it's obviously not meant for security > > > tests. I just can't see what the normal use of this tool would be. > > > > Educational reasons. I could see someone demonstrating breaking weak > > passwords with such a tool. > > If you want to make it educational, let your students write such a > tool themselves, at least for the technical oriented ones. Those that > do not care if you just tell them, will forget that showcase on the > next password change. Use something like cracklib instead. Do we > really need script kiddie support in Debian? Most definitely. Password crackers, network sniffers, syscall tracers, and all sorts of other 'blackhat' and 'script kiddie' tools are what allow me to do my job as a sysadmin. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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