Re: Metasploit Framework 4.0 / PwnCraft RTS Game

["Elazar Broad" <elazar () hushmail com>]

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Let the foolz begin :) Happy April 1st!

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:49:23 -0400 METASPLOIT CORPORATION
<fdlist () digitaloffense net> wrote:
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - APR 1, 200(2<<2)
>
>    METASPLOIT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES VERSION 4.0
> OF THE METASPLOIT FRAMEWORK WITH EXCITING FEATURES
>       AND A CLOSED SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT.
>
> After over a year and a half in stealth-mode, Metasploit
> Corporation has announced
> the 4.0 release of their flag-ship product, The Metasploit
> Framework.  The new
> release comes jam-packed with exciting features that are sure to
> please even
> the German legal system.  The following brief list includes some
> of the more
> fantastic changes.
>
> PWNCRAFT!
>
> Tired of fighting the good fight with the tried and true user
> interfaces you've
> come to expect from exploitation frameworks?  Seeing a command
> shell for the
> 5000th time got you down?  Well, you're in luck.  Metasploit has
> decided to
> return to its rootz in '08 and focus on the exploitation-as-a-game
> model.
> PwnCraft brings the worlds of ownage and pwnage together for the
> first time in
> a revolutionary Real Time Strategy (RTS) world.  Don't be fooled
> by the
> game-like interface, though!  The actions you take in PwnCraft
> have a real
> effect on the world around you!  Here's just a taste of some of
> the absolutely
> insane features you can look forward to:
>
>  - Glide through enemy networks with a squadron of elegant winged
> pwnies
>  - Launch devastating attacks against enemy ports in an all-out
> IPS-evading
>    TCP/IP assault
>  - Use the fuzzy Burrowing Badger unit to discover 0day flaws in
> enemy
>    defenses
>  - Conqueer cities and installing agents who can sabotage and
> smuggle other
>    units to new Vistas
>  - An entirely in-game interface to the vulnerability sharing
> market to
>    improve your arsenal on the fly!
>  - AND MORE!
>
> Beta testing of PwnCraft is currently underway and we are hoping
> to begin
> releasing it in stores at a retail price of $49.99 in Q3 2009.
> More details
> about the game can be found on the Metasploit website:
>
> http://metasploit.com/
>
>
> CLOSED SOURCE LICENSE
>
> After years of struggling to define Metasploit's licensing
> position a final
> decision has been made to "screw it" and move the framework to a
> closed source
> license agreement.  The decision was made to sell out for a number
> of reasons,
> not the least of which has to do with the benjamins.  Metasploit
> 2.x and 3.x
> will no longer be available for public download.
>
> SPLOIT AT ME
>
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> choosing with
> *99% reliability.
>
> About Metasploit Corporation
>
> Metasploit Corporation is an industry leader with thousands of non-
> paying
> customers world-wide.  Metasploit delivers high-quality, top-
> notch,
> success-driven exploits to the security world as one-stop-shop
> exploitation
> framework.
>
>
>  * The other 1% of the time, your own machine will be
> compromised.
>
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