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Fedora rejects SQLninja

Fedora rejects SQLninja

Posted Nov 11, 2010 17:17 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Fedora rejects SQLninja by steelhoof
Parent article: Fedora rejects SQLninja

There's a valid use of this and other penetration testing tools where you own the web app installation, or have been contracted by the owner to test security.

However, I can understand why Fedora doesn't want to distribute such tools - many people would use them for illegal purposes, and such tools are more clearly aimed at site hacking/cracking than more generic tools such as Perl (very popular as an exploit tool thanks to libwww-perl, but mostly used for non-exploit purposes.)


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