It may not be inaccurate to characterize wget or curl as tools that could be used to perform nefarious acts of hacking. After all, the command-line options offe

It may not be inaccurate to characterize wget or curl as tools that could be used to perform nefarious acts of hacking. After all, the command-line options offer wide latitude to twiddle parameters and craft requests far beyond the type that would pass a browser's sanity checks. In fact, I could see where you could make the same argument about popping open the Developer Tools console in a browser. Plenty of people use wget in a mundane fashion where they may want to automate or test stuff that is in no way illicit hacking, but likewise, malicious threat actors can have a field day with it. It's essentially a morally neutral tool with possibilities.