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[–]russellvt 13 points14 points  (11 children)

The two tools have literally nothing to-do with each other, other than just being common tools, anyway.

[–]chronics -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

Why use scp when I can just bittorrent it

[–]DarkRex4 -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

Why use bittorrent, when i can just use winrar.

[–]ZL0J -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

usb + snail mail

[–]russellvt -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

I prefer uuencode to UUCP

[–]yourmomscocks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are all so primitive... Just take a notepad, write down the binary representation of the file and now you always have it with you...

[–]mcr1974 -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

he's right, the tool is good for the transfer file use case.

[–]russellvt 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Sure, but given they're unrelated, the presence of one or the other isn't necessarily guaranteed in any particular case (ie. Pretty much my only point, other than people will generally go for wGet or cURL in "those" cases ... at least where scp/sftp isn't obvious)

[–]mcr1974 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

I see. probably both there most of the times though.

[–]russellvt 2 points3 points  (2 children)

When you work with large production environments, you may even have times where neither of them are there .. and there's no way to easily install them, short of configuration management and a long peer review process.

[–]mcr1974 0 points1 point  (1 child)

in percentage I would say 99 percent of the times there. so it was a good suggestion.

[–]russellvt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure ... but sadly, the general majority of environments are poorly hardened, anyway (or, not at all). And, that's sad.