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What am I even reading? An ignorant clickbait article about an extremely popular and widely used ssh client? It's not like they couldn't just do scp or sftp via any tool set, even built into modern OS's.
I guess the takeaway from this is that these supposed super clever hackers are using Windows. Instead of any of the operating systems that come with an SSH client built in.
Windows 11 has OpenSSH baked in.
That makes it even worse.
Yep, I use ssh directly in PowerShell at work regularly.
I wonder what version of Windows the systems are running.
CP/M
Even with windows, putty is a bit weird now. Windows comes with ssh/scp now ....
I still use it mostly out of inertia; im just used to it at this point. I dont like it, but at this point its like an old ugly pair of jeans that are broken in
Windows actually does have a decentish ssh program built in these days... it's not great but like... it works. And while I used to use PuTTY myself, I've just switched over to using git bash - so it amuses me that they're using ancient tooling even though the oldest is like 25?
As a thirty eight year old I feel confident in saying that these clowns need to get with the times.
Also, don't forget that Musk is a huge fucking idiot. He recently claimed the US government doesn't use SQL which is laughably ignorant.
Maybe the LLMs they prompted didn't know about the built-in SSH support, hence still recommends PuTTY? 🤔
Or perhaps grok considers Windows 11 to be woke.
WinXP FTW?
I would guess they are looking to use it with pagent to support login with PIVs which is likely required by the servers they want to access. It's a pretty standard login setup in federal IT honestly.
Do you really need pagent for that versus just ssh-agent?
Pagent can handle auth with openssh also. There’s no need to actually use putty itself. You can do PIV/CAC auth on windows without pagent too. Or even better, don’t use windows at all.
And that security is by app not by network rules.
Actually it's good news that they still had to requisition the software, that indicates they don't just get to run local admin and install whatever, they're still bound by a domain.