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Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store (microsoft.com) 69

You can now download and install Kali Linux via the Windows Store. From a blog post on MSDN: Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali Linux to WSL in response to a blog post on Kali Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali Linux on WSL.
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Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store

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  • by ebcdic ( 39948 ) on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:21AM (#56216141)

    What is WSL? From Google, it seems to be the World Surf League.

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    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:25AM (#56216159)
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    • cobbling a well supported and powerful standalone Linux distribution together with the haggard proprietary burro of Microsoft Windows serves no immediate purpose other than bragging rights.

      And getting around the IT department blocking anything that isn't a Windows machine.

      If your response to the above comment is along the lines of "That's stupid! Get better IT people!", I don't get consulted on the hiring of executives, nor get veto power over the C_Os issuing edicts.

      • by Anonymous Coward

        If you want to install Kali and you are not part of the IT department that makes the decisions on what gets installed, you should not have the ability to install Kali.

        Kali, like Linux or any other piece of software, when unmanaged in the whole structure of the security stance an organization has is a security threat. Either you have the ability to install what you like security wise because that is your job or you should never have the right to install such things.

        You can pretend to be an information securi

        • If you want to install Kali and you are not part of the IT department that makes the decisions on what gets installed, you should not have the ability to install Kali.

          In the real world, there are people who are paid to develop and test products that are sold to other parties. Shockingly enough, the people that do this work are not the network administrators.

          You can pretend to be an information security professional in your off time. Doing it at work makes more problems for those of us that actually are security professionals.

          Wow, you sound exactly like the wonderful executives that came up with the Windows only edict.

    • by Teun ( 17872 )
      Nonono, Kali might be console based but it is Linux on a Desktop.
      But building a house on such shaky foundations is still questionable.
  • Why would anyone use Kali over just using Debian and adding the packages they need? Is it some kind of 1337 H/\X0R cred thing?

  • Now where's Fedora!?

  • by Anonymous Coward

    WSL doesn't currently support raw sockets, so you can't really do a pen-test from WSL. This feels like script kiddie pandering.

  • Well, that seems pointless to me. For most of the tools in Kali you need to power of the Linux Kernel to directly control hardware like the wifi card. e.g. Kali/aireplay isn't very useful if you can put the interface into promiscuous mode.

  • by PPH ( 736903 )

    A ten-armed god with her hands on everything.

    No thanks. I'm already not running systemd for similar reasons.

  • You must be wearing a black hoodie at all times.
  • Why the hell would I bother using some faux-Linux subsystem that runs under Windows? Isn't it just (excuse the unintentional pun) window-dressing at that point, making you feel falsely safe and cozy in your linux-wallpapered room inside the Microsoft prison? Won't there still be 'telemetry' (read as: spyware) and the usual Microsoft hegemony regardless?
  • This is so far removed from this site's original concept...

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