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Remote-exploit.org stuck to their word and released the Backtrack 3 Beta on schedule. There are a ton of new features and improvements in this version.

I will be posting a review of some of the new features once I finish testing it out. I will most likely not be covering any more automated wireless cracking tools or things like “autopwn.” There is a difference between proof of concept, and arming every 15 year old punk with a one-click tool to steal his or her neighbor’s wireless or blow up the office network. I can’t think of any legitimate use of these tools in a penetration test or security audit, especially if you are testing live networks. You would never fire up a tool that blindly selects targets and attempts to exploit.

Anyway, downloading should go pretty smoothly now with all the mirrors that have been put up (not to mention the surge of script kiddies has died down slightly)

http://remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html