When I wrote the initial prototype of Dehydra I pondered how long it would take before it’s adopted by security guys. Unfortunately, until now take-up has been non-existent. Grep and Perl still seem to rule in that community even though the plain text approach restricts the range of possible security scans.

Normally I would be tempted to rant on how grep is convenient yet limiting. However Ben Kurtz discovered Dehydra for security scans and did a great job explaining the issues involved. Thanks to Georgi for linking me to Ben’s post.