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The Next Generation of Security Tools will run from The Browser
Published October 27th, 2007 in Browser Security, Extensions, Firefox
I know that a lot of you may object but this is how I see it and there is nothing wrong in expressing what we strongly believe in. The next generation of security tools will run from the browser. And I am not referring to Web security tools only. I am talking about the whole 9 yards, packed into easy to use modules. We are not going to ditch the command line, neither we will forget how to use other scripting platforms like Perl, Python and Ruby. They will all come together into the game in one form or another.
The reason for feeling so strong about this, is hidden behind my recent experience with improving upon Technika. After going through a great deal of pain, I realized that what I’ve come up with is something that potentially can save me a lot of trouble later in work.
Technika is nothing more but a simple browser extension that adds another layer on the top of Firefox in order to accommodate script hungry fanatics, penetration testers, browser hackers, developers, security researchers, etc, etc, etc. The extension comes with a built in scripting shell which supports several useful primitives such as, JavaScript command line evaluation, when the text is enclosed in ` (backticks), external and internal object referencing, when we use @ or @@, and of course the bash like EOF primitive, when we want to feed more text into a single command. The Next Generation of Security Tools will run from The Browser | GNUCITIZEN
