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Mr. Robot TV Show Now Uses BackTrack Linux’s Successor, Kali Linux for Hacking

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Marius Nestor
Jul 28, 2015

The fifth episode of Mr. Robot showed us, Linux geeks, that the characters in the show are using Kali Linux to hack people. As you might know, Kali Linux is the successor of the extremely popular BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing distribution, based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

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Marius Nestor

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