PHLAK 0.2 Released

An anonymous reader wrote "The project team over at PHLAK.org has released PHLAK 0.2 to all those 'waiting in the trenches'. PHLAK stands for Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit and is a modular security LiveCD distribution. It contains many, many security tools and lots of documentation. The project team, two guys from Texas, hope that by using their distro, users will learn about security and use their knowledge to practice security."

PHLAK == Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz???

[mhesseltine]

All kidding aside, this does seem like an interesting project. Something that can be used for good (security audits, finding problems in your setup, private network testing) or bad (take it to the library and start hacking from there).

I didn't see anything in the FAQ's about this; is it possible to install other software on the ramdisk?

Re:PHLAK == Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz???

[AlXtreme]

It is, as it's a Morphix derivative. Currently, packages can be installed using dpkg, files are overlayed onto the readonly filesystem. Not sure if sieve threw in the newer 0.6 translucency in his 0.2 release, think he did, that release seems to do quite a good job in overlaying/hiding files on the cdrom.

Knoppix for 31337 h4x0rz? well, after Phlak's first release there were some people in the security business shitting themselves over it. It's not necessarily the software, there are more security livecd's, it's the accessability of those tools. Plus, they did their best to include lots of useful docs, a very complete and useful package... for all uses ;)

Anyway, rock on sieve. Keep 'em scared :)

Bit Torrent link anyone?

[Beatbyte]

I'd like to get my mits on it. Post it if you have it.

What tha ... ?

[zangdesign]

Why bother linking to the Texas government site? Is it such a big deal that this was produced in Texas that there has to be a link? Good gravy, people. We make good stuff down here all the time.

Re:What tha ... ?

[Uma Thurman]

But do y'all make stuff with them new-fangled 'puters? I'd say they done Texas right proud!

Been 'dotted for a while

[hattmoward]

It was posted on freshmeat earlier today, the servers are loaded.

There is a mirror of the cd here though:
ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/phlak/phlak-0.2.iso [oregonstate.edu]

Google cache of download page: http://www.phlak.org/modules/mydownloads/ [google.com]
NOTE: Planetmirror 404's -- looks like they don't have the phlak dir anymore. sorry.

Getting about 20KB/s on my ncftpbatch...

Re:Been 'dotted for a while

[FlashingMonk]

Here's a couple more links...
http://psifertex.nerdc.ufl.edu/iso/phlak/phlak-0.2 .iso [ufl.edu]
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.phlak.org /pub/phlak/0.2/phlak-0.2.iso [roedu.net]

and...
MD5sum: 828ae6707ee53991e442009e75067d09

And I believe I saw a torrent on suprnova.org but I'm not allowed to view that site at the moment.

Umm... 0.2 doesn't work

[Linux_ho]

At least on the two machines I've tried it on so far, init fails because it doesn't set up the ramdisk properly...

Re:Umm... 0.2 doesn't work

[goonsqad]

well looks like we still need to do some work.

If you could post that to our forum.

Thanks
Goonsqad

No X - oh well

[MerlynEmrys67]

Seems to be having problems coming up in X - probably a personal problem w/ my computers setup... after all how many people run multiple monitors/etc on their systems

Would be interested in seeing what is in this thing

Fatal server error: no screens found

Heck I've got two

Re:No X - oh well

[Short Circuit]

I'd guess their XF86Config doesn't list the PCI addresses of your video cards. AFAIK, X requires that information when dealing with multiple displays. Are you able to run KNOPPIX?