So I went out looking for the Helix Forensics Live CD today…
Sniff.
So what’s a guy to do?
Well, I whined about it for a while. I raged about it for a while. I bargained with myself to see if it was worth the $179 for the once or twice a year I needed it. I got depressed because yet another company has taken off with “monetizing it’s community” and finally, I decided to go looking for the ISO of the last version before they went sideways.
I learned about what happened…
and some (partial) alternatives…
- Raptor by Forward Discovery, Inc.
- Windows FE
- and more Windows FE
- and even more Windows FE
- The nebulous promise of HelixCE (community edition)
- C.A.IN.E. (Computer Aided Investigative Environment) Live CD
I’d just about given up when I came across this posting from one of my #sectwits friends – Rob Fuller (@mubix): Ask and you shall receive – SumoLinux
It seems that another one of the #sectwits – Marcus J. Carey has put together a fantastic DVD-based or USB-based distro called SUMO Linux which just happens to contain:
a compilation of the best Information Security distributions:
- Backtrack 3
- Helix 2.0
- Samurai Linux
- DBAN
- DVL
It’s available through the always impressive Pirate Bay torrent tracker here.
And just like that – the answer to my problem could have been found not through endless Google searches, but through a quick query to some of the fantastic folks on Twitter who have come together in an intensely supportive community with Zach Lanier (@quine) as it’s leader and (often) lead jokester.
(I’m so gonna pay for that last link…)
(CC licensed image from Todd Binger’s Flickr Stream)
[tags]helix3, livecd, hunting, mubix, marcusjcarey, awesome[/tags]