From: Luka Lukako <dezertir@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T02:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby For Hackers

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Luka Lukako wrote:
>> Anybody know how to writing Keyloggers in ruby, or trojans or other
>> viruses?
> 
> Well, I don't know much about that field of programming, but if I had to
> guess I'd say that Ruby seems ill-suited for these kinds of
> applications. I mean, it makes it hard to run code surreptitiously when
> the target computer has to have the Ruby interpreter, RubyGems, and
> half-a-dozen gems installed. What are you going to say when the target
> machine's actual owner asks you why he has to install all this stuff?
> "Oh, no reason. Don't worry about it. Pretty please?"
> 
> Also Ruby is, ah, not exactly a speed demon, is it? I'd think that when
> you want your virus to fire itself up and start sending spam you'd want
> it to run quickly, otherwise the target machine's actual owner might
> notice something's wrong.
> 
> 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.

Thanks you Tim! I think too, for hacking, is perl, python, C++ etc.. but 
not ruby. :)

But, Why we need ruby? if only he can writing applications, who has 
installed ruby? and for only rails?

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