Re: Ruby For Hackers

On 27 Apr 2008, at 20:30, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
All-in-all you're probably better off using some language more
suited for
malware. Like Perl, or Python. Yeah, that's it. Perl. Or Python.
Either
one.

I would say it is the complete opposite. In the security research
area, Ruby is
a rising tool. I have several friends in the security realm who are
learning
Ruby specifically to do work with metasploit.

People thought we were weird at the first RailsConf Europe for talking
about our Ruby packet-sniffing research, but increasingly security
hackers are getting dissatisfied with the hoops C++ and Java make you
leap through. Stuff that takes a week or two in Ruby can take months
with those languages, and the code is much harder to follow when
you've finished.

Ruby. It's where the smart kids play :)


Ellie

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