[ale] Why Kali linux?

[Jim Kinney]

I thought Kali had a bunch of security test and probe tools and was also
vulnerable to many of the issues by design. It's supposed to be manually
secured by the admin and validated with the included tools.

Not my choice of platforms. I have enough to do already.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 7:48 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I keep seeing references to Kali linux in the "used for security testing"
> perspective. Which I'm starting to like, but why Kali vs anything else? I
> heard it comes with more security tools, but if someone is okay with
> building/getting the code, does that matter?
>
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