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10 Best Security Live CD Distros

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-leave-home-without-it dept.

Ant writes to tell us Darknet has a summary of the ten best LiveCD distributions dealing with security. With links to download and a little information about each one." An great overview of some handy tools, some you know and probably a few you don't.

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  1. Like rain on your weeding day by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suppose it's probably safe to trust that the makers of your LiveCD aren't putting little rootkits into the image that automatically get installed to the existing OS image on the hard disk.

    LiveCDs are great, but always make sure that the source is trustworthy or you may end up with a bootable CD with Tubgirl as the desktop background. That wouldn't be pleasant. Especially in front of a customer.

  2. No BSD? by putko · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about that OpenBSD-based live CD? Isn't that a top security OS?

    Or is this thing only for Linux?

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    1. Re:No BSD? by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 4, Interesting
      What about that OpenBSD-based live CD? Isn't that a top security OS?

      OpenBSD is a strong server operating system but it makes a horrible forensics toolkit base because of the lack of the level of hardware support that Linux enjoys. I'm not bashing it as a server OS since you can pick and choose the best supported components in that environment, but when using it as a forensics tool you have to support a wide variety of very oddball hardware that a desktop or server might contain and Linux is better at doing that.

  3. How about "Live USB Key" distros? by timeOday · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Anybody know a distro that's easy to install and run from a USB key?

    I've found instructions on doing this for some distros (including Knoppix I think), but the step-by-step was too long and involved.