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Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7
ancientribe writes "The wildly popular, open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project has been sold to Rapid7, a vulnerability management vendor, paving the way for a commercial version of Metasploit to eventually hit the market. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit, was hired by Rapid7 and will continue heading up the project. This is big news for the indie Metasploit Project, which now gets full-time resources. Moore says this will translate into faster turnaround for new features. Just what a commercial Metasploit product will look like is still in the works, but Rapid7 expects to keep the Metasploit penetration testing tool as a separate product with 'high integration' into Rapid7's vulnerability management products."
Even names are in high-definition these days.
get off my lawn.
In my day we had to use smoke signals to exploit a neighbor's abacus. And you know what, we liked it.
Now you have your fancy audio couplers and wireless networks.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I interviewed with Rapid7 for a software development position, and I too can attest to the fact that the company seems to be full of jerks. I was essentailly pressured to accept a position before being provided with any salary or benefits information - because those are just "minor details" ...
Also the sales team was running laps around the office. It looked like a frat house.
It's used mainly by crackers to comprise websites. Fuck this tool and fuck the arrogant script kiddies padding their resumes with it. This software has no legitimate purpose.
Sounds like the righteous anger of someone who left some back doors open for a few script kiddies in his time, and got burned by it.