This is a typical old world vs new world vulnerability. Old tools have lots of hacker features that are often not a good idea anymore in this (century's) world.

This is a typical old world vs new world vulnerability. Old tools have lots of hacker features that are often not a good idea anymore in this (century's) world. See also cryptographic agility and such. The Unix philosophy of combining small, specialised tools into a larger whole to accomplish a task is an important concept that really shouldn't be forgotten, but at the same time one should remember not all tools are meant to withstand malicious input from a hostile internet, in particular those that predate the explosion of the internet.