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INTRODUCING KALI

THE TOOLS WE’RE GOING TO SHOW you can be installed on pretty much any Linux distro, but we’re going to use Kali Linux. This is primarily because it has all these tools installed already, and there’s excellent documentation if you want some more information about it.

Kali is probably not something you’d want to use as a daily driver, although if you look online you’ll see a lot of posts by budding haxors that do just this. Up until the end of last year Kali used the root account by default, since many tricks such as handcrafting network packets require this. It would be a terrible idea if you

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