In honor of the 10-year anniversary of Rapid7’s acquisition of Metasploit, our latest episode of Security Nation features an interview with its founder, HD Moore. You can listen to the podcast episode below, or read on for a Q&A based on our discussion about his latest project.
A: Sure, yeah. So early on, if you go back to 2003 when we started the Metasploit Project, it wasn’t that popular. There were a lot of folks using it, but it wasn’t considered a tool that people wanted to use, it wasn’t considered safe to use, and it wasn’t considered something you should legally be able to use in a lot of cases.
We definitely got value out of the controversy, but if you look at the time that Rapid7 acquired the project, we only had about 33,000 users based on our subversion stats at that point. Fast-forward about a year or two, post-Rapid7, and I think we were up to 200,000 or 300,000 monthly users who were downloading the project. So even though it was being managed by a corporation and being run a little more professionally, it actually increased the user base by at least 10x over those first two years.
So I’ve been very happy. I’m happy that one, the project is still alive. It’s amazing that so many people have been involved with it, that people are still contributing to it, and that it’s still serving as this living archive of research techniques that have been discovered for the last 20-something years that are being turned into code that’s actually maintained. You know, managing a Ruby project is pr ..
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