20 years ago, I started working on Wapiti almost as an experiment.
Today, it’s still alive, still evolving, and still helping people secure websites around the world.
Two decades of open source, cybersecurity research, bug hunting, late nights, and countless commits.
Extremely hot take: it's better now and more alive than ever
In the 90s and 2000s, computer exploitation and malware development was perceived as this ancient dark art, like it was a forbidden knowledge that only a select few, hand chosen by God, could bare witness to.
Hell, some of the old writings from the 80s and 90s, computer nerds would write things like they were some kind of martial arts master or wizard of the dark arts. It was so silly and goofy.
Now in 2025 there are hundreds of websites, educational courses, university lectures, conferences, social media platform nerds, and more, despite exploitation and malware development being significantly more difficult than it was historically.
Every single day I see super cool research. This sort of information flow was unimaginable to me 20 years ago.
The aesthetic has changed though. Not everyone wants to release a zine, distribute it on an IRC server, and wait 6 months for an email response. Technology has improved, the culture has shifted, things have changed. It's way better now.
Fuck dial up btw, I don't miss the slow ass internet, waiting 45 minutes to download a 5mb file
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