Interview with Kevin Johnson a creator of Samurai
Anyone interested in web penetration testing. The environment has been built so that anyone from the person just learning all the way to the seasoned professional can make use of Samurai.
What is one thing you would like your distribution to have or do that no other distribution does?
Aside from the focus on web penetration testing, we feel that the built in wiki for test result tracking. This wiki is being expanded greatly in the next release.
Why did you decide to make your own live security distribution?
I wasn't able to attend DefCon this year and so I had some extra time. Actually we do a lot of web pen-tests and had built out an environment that worked well for this. Opening that up to everyone is just the right thing to do. Of course, selfishly we hope that the improvements from the community just make it better all around.
How many man hours go into each release?
The actual build and release takes about three hours. As to the rest of the process, we haven't tracked it yet.
What is your favorite *nix distribution and why?
I would have to say Ubuntu. The ease of building new environments and the outstanding hardware support makes it my default choice.
How do you see live security distributions evolving over the next few years?
I think that the distributions are just going to continue getting better. This is due to the experience we gain with every release and the increase in quality tools.
What is the biggest upgrade/addition that is planned for your distribution?
The two big things going on with SamuraiWTF is the upgrade to Intrepid/KDE, the wiki and the work with w3af.