• Not only are you crass in your delivery but your advice is irresponsible and dangerous. Please keep the mischaracterizations to yourself. You're doing a disservice to the community and are putting data at risk by endorsing a tool that allows for the possibility of not only permission elevation, but also obfuscation that could impact auditing and detection of a wrongdoing. Inform people correctly so they can make up their own mind and stop polluting the well of information with your incorrect portrayal of what enabling xp_cmdshell means.

    There are no special teachers of virtue, because virtue is taught by the whole community.
    --Plato