From my understanding, this comes down one thing basically - most of the
script kiddies arsenal starting
life originally as something else. Most of the time as something that actually had a
legitimate use as a
defence or
analysis tool eg
Packet Sniffer.
And if it's not the original product that they're using then it has most likely hacked up by somebody who doesn't really have any idea what they're doing and consequently ends up screwing the nice piece of software that someone else spent a lot of time on.
On the other hand, do you really want script kiddies to have access to real software used for this purpose? Of course not! But what they've got makes them feel special, but keeps them from causing any real trouble.