Very nice (Score: 1) by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-09-05 11:33 (#2S35) I might not run this on my box constantly, but it's handy as a live distro for pen testing or hacking competitions :) Re: Very nice (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-05 12:11 (#2S36) For me it was a learning experience to see how many different software tools have been developed for the purpose of brute forcing a poorly defended system. Holy crap. In the same way I've seen both sides of forum spam. I run http://gotonicaragua.com and battling forum bot-spam has been a problem since day one. But as sysadmin on that machine I also get tons of email offering the services of guys who have developed and run custom blog-posting and forum-posting software whose purpose obviously is to deliver exactly what I hate. Interesting to see both sides of the equation.This penetration testing stuff is powerful stuff. Interesting to me to see just how well-developed it is.
Re: Very nice (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-05 12:11 (#2S36) For me it was a learning experience to see how many different software tools have been developed for the purpose of brute forcing a poorly defended system. Holy crap. In the same way I've seen both sides of forum spam. I run http://gotonicaragua.com and battling forum bot-spam has been a problem since day one. But as sysadmin on that machine I also get tons of email offering the services of guys who have developed and run custom blog-posting and forum-posting software whose purpose obviously is to deliver exactly what I hate. Interesting to see both sides of the equation.This penetration testing stuff is powerful stuff. Interesting to me to see just how well-developed it is.