[ale] Why Kali linux?

[Jim Kinney]

Saw a report quite a while back that Kali was often seen at the AZ security
conference and was usually the successful attack target due to it's
inherent insecurity.

But that was many moons/beers ago and the organic ram is sometimes random
to the point of useless.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 9:28 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I think it was more presented as a VM that could be installed on an
> existing system, and many folks were Winderz based. So the "tools included"
> was a bonus for them. That's just my understanding, subject to actual facts.
>
>
> On 12/4/22 08:02, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I thought Kali had a bunch of security test and probe tools and was also
> vulnerable to many of the issues by design. It's supposed to be manually
> secured by the admin and validated with the included tools.
> >
> > Not my choice of platforms. I have enough to do already.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 7:48 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:
> ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I keep seeing references to Kali linux in the "used for security
> testing" perspective. Which I'm starting to like, but why Kali vs anything
> else? I heard it comes with more security tools, but if someone is okay
> with building/getting the code, does that matter?
> >
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