From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T20:29:44+09:00
Subject: 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

Eleanor McHugh
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