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Interesting, no i havnt to answer the original question

I does seem like its wanting to be a way to make money off linux though (wikipedia mentions use of advertising) and it does seem to do most the things many other live cds can do (knoppix) which are all pretty easy to customise....
 
Yes, I use this from time to time.

I only use it at work, though. I don't really have any need for it at home. What are you planning on using it for?
 
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pingwing said:
Interesting, no i havnt to answer the original question

I does seem like its wanting to be a way to make money off linux though (wikipedia mentions use of advertising) and it does seem to do most the things many other live cds can do (knoppix) which are all pretty easy to customise....
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Nah, they're not making money. It's just a distro with all the security tools built-in. You're right that it doesn't do anything that other distros can't do, but the beauty is that it's all in one place. When doing pen testing, for example, it's very convenient to be able to use any machine by just booting it with Back Track.

Sure, I could build my own LiveCD by taking my favourite distro and installing all the tools myself, but this saves me time and hassle, as it's already got everything I would install in any case. A bog-standard Knoppix Live CD, for example, doesn't come with metasploit or nessus installed and ready to use.
 
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Penetration testing my home network lol
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Not a bad idea, someone i know had a 64-bit WEP key, and automatic updates disabled, using metasploit i was able to get a VNC session on their PC going.

It's an excellent Distro, I would personally reccomend BT4 (esp if you are used to Debian systems) I have it on USB with persistent changes


PS it doesn't have Nessus installed as standard btw, although its not difficult to get running.
 
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Not a bad idea, someone i know had a 64-bit WEP key, and automatic updates disabled, using metasploit i was able to get a VNC session on their PC going.

It's an excellent Distro, I would personally reccomend BT4 (esp if you are used to Debian systems) I have it on USB with persistent changes


PS it doesn't have Nessus installed as standard btw, although its not difficult to get running.
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As BT4 has moved to a debain platform, the APT Repositories for all the BT4 tools are available, useful if you have an existing debian/ubuntu installation that you are happy with but don't want to go rounding up the BT tools list, Just add the repo and install.

Also, it's very hard to properly pentest your home network because you already know way too much about it... Not that i'm saying pentest someone elses :)

//TrX
 
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