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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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BackTrack

For other uses, see Backtrack.
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BackTrack 5 R3
DeveloperOffensive Security[1]
  • Mati Aharoni
  • Devon Kearns
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseMay 26, 2006; 20 years ago (2006-05-26)
Final release5 R3 / August 13, 2012; 14 years ago (2012-08-13)
Supported platformsi386 (x86), AMD64 (x86-64), ARM
Kernel typeMonolithic
Default
user interface		Bash, KDE Plasma Desktop, Fluxbox,[2][3] GNOME
LicenseVarious
Preceded by
  • WHAX
  • Auditor Security Collection
Succeeded byKali Linux
Official websitewww.backtrack-linux.org

BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration test use.[4] In March 2013, the Offensive Security team rebuilt BackTrack around the Debian distribution and released it under the name Kali Linux.[5]

History

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The BackTrack distribution originated from the merger of two formerly competing distributions which focused on penetration testing:

  • WHAX: a Slax-based Linux distribution developed by Mati Aharoni, a security consultant. Earlier versions of WHAX were called Whoppix and were based on Knoppix.[6]
  • Auditor Security Collection: a Live CD based on Knoppix developed by Max Moser which included over 300 tools organized in a user-friendly hierarchy.[7][8]

On January 9, 2010, BackTrack 4 improved hardware support, and added official FluxBox support.[4] The overlap with Auditor and WHAX in purpose and in collection of tools partly led to the merger. The overlap came about as Backtrack 5, released on May 10, 2011. This version also seen the base OS changed from Slackware to Ubuntu.[4][9]

Tools

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BackTrack provided users with easy access to a comprehensive and large collection of security-related tools ranging from port scanners to Security Audit.[10] Support for Live CD and Live USB functionality allowed users to boot BackTrack directly from portable media without requiring installation,[11] though permanent installation to hard disk and network was also an option.

BackTrack included many well known security tools including:[12]

BackTrack arranged tools into 12 categories:[12][13]

Releases

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Date Release
May 26, 2006 First stable release of BackTrack based on Slackware[9][14][15]
October 13, 2006 BackTrack 2 beta #1 released[16][17]
November 19, 2006 BackTrack 2 beta #2 released[18]
March 6, 2007 BackTrack 2 final released[9][19][20]
December 14, 2007 BackTrack 3 beta released[21][19]
June 19, 2008 BackTrack 3 final released (Linux kernel 2.6.21.5)[9][19]
February 11, 2009 BackTrack 4 beta released[22]
January 9, 2010 BackTrack 4 final release (Linux kernel 2.6.30.9 and base OS changed to Ubuntu)[9][23][24]
May 8, 2010 BackTrack 4 R1 release[25]
November 22, 2010 BackTrack 4 R2 release[26]
May 10, 2011 BackTrack 5 release (Linux kernel 2.6.38)[9][27]
August 18, 2011 BackTrack 5 R1 release (Linux kernel 2.6.39.5)[28]
March 1, 2012 BackTrack 5 R2 release (Linux kernel 3.2.6)[29]
August 13, 2012 BackTrack 5 R3 release[30]

Whenever a new version of BackTrack was released, older versions would lose their support and service from the BackTrack development team. There are currently no supported versions of BackTrack.[31]

References

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  1. ^ "Developers". Archived from the original on 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
  2. ^ "HowTo:Install KDE 4.1". Offensive-security.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  3. ^ "BackTrack 4 tutorial". Archived from the original on 2011-10-26.
  4. ^ a b c "BackTrack Linux – Penetration Testing Distribution". Backtrack Linux. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Kali Linux Has Been Released!". Offensive Security. March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
  6. ^ "BackTrack". remote-exploit.org. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  7. ^ Moser, Max (June 22, 2005). "New release of the Auditor Security Collection available". seclists.org. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  8. ^ Marti, Don (August 2005). "Editors' choice awards 2005". Linux Journal. 2005 (136). Belltown Media: 4. ISSN 1075-3583.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Kali Linux History". Kali Linux. Offensive Security. March 13, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  10. ^ Lalitha, Priya; Challissery Samu, Lifna; Shankar Jagli, Dhanamma; Joy, Anooja (5 April 2014). Rational Unified Treatment for Web Application Vulnerability Assessment. International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communication and Information Technology Applications. Mumbai, India: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. p. 338. doi:10.1109/CSCITA.2014.6839283. ISBN 978-1-4799-2494-3.
  11. ^ Gupta, Ajay (October 1, 2010). "BackTrack 4: A One-Stop Shop for Security Analysis and Learning". opensourceforu.com. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  12. ^ a b Murphy, Brandon F. (July 30, 2013). Network Penetration Testing and Research (PDF) (Report). NASA. pp. 2–3. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  13. ^ Hess, Ken (September 20, 2011). "BackTrack Linux: The Ultimate Hacker's Arsenal". Admin Magazine. pp. 1–3. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
  14. ^ "BackTrack Downloads (seriously old)". remote-exploit.org. Archived from the original on 2008-06-26. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  15. ^ "BackTrack Security Final Release". 15 May 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  16. ^ "Downloads". Offensive Security. Archived from the original on October 27, 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  17. ^ "BackTrack v2.0 Public Beta Has Been Released!". secmaniac. 14 October 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2019 – via Blogspot.
  18. ^ "BackTrack Downloads". remote-exploit.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  19. ^ a b c "BackTrack Developers Log". remote-exploit.org. June 19, 2008. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  20. ^ "BackTrack 2.0 Final Due End of February". secmaniac. 13 February 2007. Retrieved April 9, 2019 – via Blogspot.
  21. ^ "Latest News". remote-exploit.org. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  22. ^ "BackTrack Downloads". remote-exploit.org. Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  23. ^ "BackTrack 4 Final Released". backtrack-linux.org. January 9, 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  24. ^ "BackTrack 4 Final Release". Offensive Security. 11 January 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  25. ^ "BackTrack 4 R1 – Public Release". backtrack-linux.org. August 4, 2010. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  26. ^ "BackTrack 4 R2 Download!". backtrack-linux.org. November 19, 2010. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  27. ^ "BackTrack 5 Release". backtrack-linux.org. May 10, 2011. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  28. ^ "BackTrack 5 R1 released". backtrack-linux.org. August 18, 2011. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  29. ^ "BackTrack 5 R2 Released". backtrack-linux.org. March 1, 2012. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  30. ^ "BackTrack 5 R3 Released!". backtrack-linux.org. August 13, 2012. Archived from the original on March 14, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  31. ^ Ahmed, Waqas (February 1, 2013). "BackTrack to be Reborn as Kali Linux!". HackRead. Retrieved February 19, 2025.
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Which Supreme Court case ruled state-sponsored public-school segregation unconstitutional?

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