Damn Vulnerable Linux mdash; Most Vulnerable Linux Ever

An anonymous reader writes "Usually, when installing a new operating system, the hope is that it's as up-to-date as possible. After installation there's bound to be a few updates required, but no more than a few megabytes. Damn Vulnerable Linux is different; it's shipped in as vulnerable a state as possible. As the DVL website explains: 'Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is everything a good Linux distribution isn't. Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks. DVL isn't built to run on your desktop ndash; it's a learning tool for security students.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F07%2F17%2F2136237%2FDamn-Vulnerable-Linux-mdash-Most-Vulnerable-Linux-Ever" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Damn+Vulnerable+Linux+%26mdash%3B+Most +Vulnerable+Linux+Ever%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9V eThd" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/07/17/2136237/Damn-Vulnerable-Linux-mdash-Most-Vulnerable-Linux-Ever?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w_eV80SKcqhstgK7ksH-lLL96mA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w_eV80SKcqhstgK7ksH-lLL96mA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w_eV80SKcqhstgK7ksH-lLL96mA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/w_eV80SKcqhstgK7ksH-lLL96mA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/5rK2C-PN8wQ" height="1" width="1"/

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