I received a question recently, one I receive every now and again, asking if there are any updates to an open source tool I created a while back, called “RegRipper”. This time, the question came in this way:
Is there any update on reg tool?
After a little more back and forth, I was able to tease out that the question was about RegRipper, and the question was really directed more at asking about reg keys updates for win11. My response was the usual, that everything’s online. After all, in addition to my blog, the GitHub repo is publicly available, so anyone can take a look at it and see what’s new. I mean, I don’t have to do your Googling for you. If you don’t see something specific that you’re looking for, RegRipper was designed from the beginning to be extensible; you can either write your own plugin, or ask for assistance in doing so (I’ve turned working plugins around in an hour or less). If you choose to go that route (most don’t), it usually helps if you can clearly articulate what you’re looking for, and even more so if you can provide a Registry hive for testing.
But the question itself got me to thinking, is this what we’ve come to?
The answer is pretty simple. No, this is how things have always been, that the initial interest in any tool, especially one that’s freely available is, is there anything new and shiny? More so, the majority of this attention seems to be just asking the high level question, with no articulation of anything specific. Just, “what’s new?”
In the time I’ve been in the industry, there’s an inordinate focus on what’s “new” over mastering what’s already out there and ava
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