BackTrack (2006 - 2013)

two security live cds merged in 2006 and became the thing everyone booted from a disc instead of installing. it carried the whole toolkit already configured, which is why it turned up in university labs and on machines that were not yours. offensive security rebuilt it on debian and released the result as kali linux on 13 march 2013, retiring the old name the same day. every tool inside it is…