Re:Netcat probing, logs and detection

Alex French (alex@support.ie)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:08:25 +0100

At 2:32 pm 18/11/96, adamsb@un.org is rumored to have typed:

>     1)  Does anyone have any experience using Hobbit's Netcat program
>     to probe system vulnerabilities?
>

Yeah, seems to work, but it's cruder than satan.... it basically just does
portscans, where satan can do much much more.

Netcat isn't really a probing tool, although it can be used as such.

Alex French
Head of Rocket Science
Club Internet