From: Terry Vernon (tvernon24@comcast.net)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 16:09:56 EDT
For Pen testing you don't need a powerful machine unless you are going
to be doing some cypher cracking with john-the-ripper or capturing
wireless encrypted data and cracking it with airsnort. Buy a crappy
little laptop and install Phlak on it (Professional Hackers Linux
Assault Kit) it's much like Trinux used to be. www.phlak.org I think it
is. Try to get a laptop that has both an ethernet card and a wireless
ethernet card. If you work for a company that will be funding your
machine I suggest an alienware laptop, I think they're nice.
Phlak is just a version of debian linux that has been stripped down and
every security auditing tool you can imagine is on it, download the ISO
and burn it onto disk. (Let me add that this tool kit is nice but
you're better off installing a simple desktop linux like fedora or
mandrake or something and going and get all of the tools they have
listed on the phlak website yourself, this ensures you have all of the
latest versions of the tools.)
Hope you get done what you need
Terry Vernon
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