<div dir="auto">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. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But that was many moons/beers ago and the organic ram is sometimes random to the point of useless.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 9:28 AM Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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On 12/4/22 08:02, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>
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> Not my choice of platforms. I have enough to do already.<br>
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> 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?<br>
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