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Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

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Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

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post #4

Could we please NOT shorten Raspberry Pi to RasPi? It breaks searches and looks childish. You wouldn't short Hacker News to HacNe, so don't shorten Raspberry Pi

guilty, I was trimming the title to fit under the limit and went too far.

That said, we interchangeably use rpi, raspi and raspberry pi at work. A web search for raspi confirms it's quite a common pattern for the board.

I even have a 'raspi' motor hat on one of my robots, the "raspirobotboard v2" https://github.com/simonmonk/raspirobotboard2

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#12
post #2

I always find these kind of tutorial very strange. On one hand, it is supposed to be addressed to people who would be able to make use of an offensive security portable linux install, but on the other hand, it is written for people who need to be reminded to change the default root password.

Personally I'm happy for such tutorials. If you were to follow all the "before you learn X, learn Y and Z", you'd end up in a big, cyclic dependency graph and probably give up before learning anything. Fortunately, humans are good at jumping straight into the middle of a complicated topic and learning by figuring things out as they go. Such tutorials are great entry points.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#13
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All from a Raspberry Pi. Why ?!

Because it's small? Portable? Cheap? Unobtrusive? Creative? Fun? In short, a hack?

It seemed like a somewhat pointless hack to me, but sithadmin (your sibling comment) points out some valid use-cases.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All from a Raspberry Pi. Why ?!

Because it's the sort of thing you can tape to the underside of a desk, or slip into a ceiling plenum without it getting noticed very quickly?

Surely a normal tablet or closed laptop will look far more inconspicuous just lying around an office.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#16
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's small? Portable? Cheap? Unobtrusive? Creative? Fun? In short, a hack?

It seemed like a somewhat pointless hack to me, but sithadmin (your sibling comment) points out some valid use-cases.

Not everything has to be productive.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#17
This is a cool project if you have a Raspberry Pi you need to repurpose and/or tinker with.

On the other hand, I'd also like to note that you can get Kali Linux running on a Nexus 5 or a Nexus 7, which in my opinion is a much sleeker hacking device and probably less work to setup:

https://www.kali.org/kali-linux-nethunter/

EDIT: Been about a year since I last looked at that page. It looks like nearly the entire Nexus line is supported now. As is the OnePlus One.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#18

This is a cool project if you have a Raspberry Pi you need to repurpose and/or tinker with. On the other hand, I'd also like to note that you can get Kali Linux running on a Nexus 5 or a Nexus 7, which in my opinion is a much sleeker hacking device and probably less work to setup: https://www.kali.org/kali-linux-nethunter/ EDIT: Been about a year since I last looked at that page. It looks like nearly the entire Nexus…

Also, an RPi is probably noticeably less powerful than a Nexus 7 which is quad-core.

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#19
post #4

Could we please NOT shorten Raspberry Pi to RasPi? It breaks searches and looks childish. You wouldn't short Hacker News to HacNe, so don't shorten Raspberry Pi

It's the de facto shorthand for Raspberry Pi. Language evolves; it's a beautiful thing to behold evolution in ones own lifespan! I have found something my mother used to say to be very helpful here, if you're feeling particularly curmudgeonly about such things: "you can be right, or you can be happy."

She went on to say that being "right" isn't true as often as one thinks, and in any case, forcing your "rightness" on others can sometimes exclude you from groups, opportunities, and experiences, which takes away happiness. Being happy doesn't mean abandoning your principals, either. It means knowing when it's worth picking a battle versus letting something go because you may, in fact, be wrong according to those in the know, and in any case, when principals aren't involved, it's often easier to simply let it go.

This is all a polite way of suggesting what another might say in three semi-rude words, and that I'll only repeat here to potentially prevent someone else from being abrasive, not because I mean too say them directly myself: "get over it."

Re: Portable Hacking with a RasPi and Kali Linux

#20
post #2

I always find these kind of tutorial very strange. On one hand, it is supposed to be addressed to people who would be able to make use of an offensive security portable linux install, but on the other hand, it is written for people who need to be reminded to change the default root password.

It's Lifehacker, a branch of Gawker. So quality isn't a high priority.
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