Why does the BSD version 1.10 of nc disable the -e option found in other, so-called insecure distributions when the same dangerous feature could be trivially achieved as follows even with the 'secure' version of nc:
$ # Machine A
$ mkfifo pipe
$ nc -l 4000 <pipe | bash >pipe
$ # Machine B...
While I've just recently acquired the privilege for voting to close questions, I find it hard to find the right close reasons for the following very common scenario. Someone asks a question, but does not provide enough information to be able to answer it. A comment is made fairly quick (within ho...
Why does the BSD version 1.10 of nc disable the -e option found in other, so-called insecure distributions when the same dangerous feature could be trivially achieved as follows even with the 'secure' version of nc:
$ # Machine A
$ mkfifo pipe
$ nc -l 4000 <pipe | bash >pipe
$ # Machine B...
