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Hack the planet/Parrot

Usually for these hacker-themed features we tend to make judicious use of Kali Linux, a distro that’s jam-packed with pentesting and OSINT (open source intelligence) tools. But it’s not the only one – Parrot OS is equally powerful. And we’d urge you to go and grab the Security edition from and write it to a USB stick without delay. Then the games

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