There are plenty, fancy tools for that, but good, old dd is still best suited for the job. This step is pretty simple and self explanatory - just download the ISO and flash it. However it gets a little wild, when you want to set a permanent, encrypted storage for it. Setting up a pendrive with Live distro is a breeze - just download ISO, and flash it. It's beautiful (when you work a lot with designers, at some point you start noticing things like that), fast, has all the tools and as a bonus - it's built from scratch with privacy in mind. A lot of people use it, and are happy for it - but for me it didn't feel right.Īnd then I discovered Parrot OS, and immediately felt in love with it.

And I didn't like what I found - it felt bloated, sluggish - more like 'Debian + pentesting friends' instead of a distro built from scratch with hacking principle in mind. So, naturally I started looking for some specialised Linux distro just for that.Įverybody heard about Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack), so naturally I started there. Delete hidden partition on USB drive via. At this moment, you can turn to Diskpart Command. Seems quite easy But sometimes Delete Volume is greyed out in Windows Disk Management. Right-click the hidden partition on the USB, and select Delete Volume from the given list. And as a programmer, with strong belief in 'Single responsibility principle', I didn't like that - my base system should be used only for my daily needs and I need to separate my 'hacker wanna be' activities. Right-click This PC->Manage->Disk Management. Really quickly my laptop got filled with a lot of stuff which I used to play with, adding more and more mess. To do that, I started reading security blogs, collecting tools and playing with self-prepared vulnerable virtual machines. Recently I came to conclusion, that this may be not enough - I have to start thinking as an attacker, to better understand the tools and tricks used in todays cyberworld.

However I always did it from 'defendant' perspective, and learned techniques connected mostly with that (closing ports, configuring firewalls etc.). I keep a lot of private info there, so naturally I had to learn a lot about securing it and keeping it as safe as possible. Mostly as a devops for projects which I write, but also I host my own server with mail, git etc.

Apart from working as a developer, I also do some server administration in my spare time.

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