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Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)



On 02/24/2009 08:13 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:27:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
But what (besides web crawling) is the (legal) purpose of
that?  And why does it need a word list?

It seems to me that this tool is as open to abuse as nmap,
ping, wget, and several other apps we distribute.


The apps you specify have obvious non-abusive uses. What (besides penetration testing) are such uses for w3bfukk0r?

(As Noah Slater pointed out, it's hard to lose a directory on your own machine...)

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