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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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    Death by snoo-snoo!
  2. 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.

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

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