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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. Backtrack rules... by Daxster · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used Auditor extensively in the past year or so, and played around with Slax. Slax is buggy and definitely lacking polish, but it's modular system of scripts and packages make it perfect for a combination of whoppix and Auditor. Now if only proper ndiswrapper modules were included...

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  2. 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.

  3. slashdotted top ten by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. BackTrack
    2. Operator
    3. PHLAK
    4. Auditor
    5. L.A.S Linux
    6. Knoppix-STD
    7. Helix
    8. F.I.R.E
    9. nUbuntu
    10. INSERT Rescue Security Toolkit
    Extra - Knoppix

  4. 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.

  5. Re:e-penis?? by mrogers · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can you e-mail it to your girlfriend every night when you are on business trips to keep her out of the arms of other men?

    You can, but you should use PGP to avoid the risk of a man-in-the-middle attack.

  6. Re:At least read the title of the articel by GomezAdams · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenBSD and FreeBSD have live distros. Don't know about NetBSD. Google is your friend.

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  7. OliveBSD? by wick3t · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although it's not a linux distribution, surely any live CD based on OpenBSD deserves a mention!

  8. 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.

    1. Re:How about "Live USB Key" distros? by farker+haiku · · Score: 4, Informative

      Check out http://slax.linux-live.org/, it's a 185 MB distro. Or you can roll your own.

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