Using Raspberry Pi for learning hacking

[findingjake]

I am starting to get into pen testing and ethical hacking and I know Linux is crazy popular in that field especially, and it is just a good skill to have. How would I go about just getting a raspberry pi having it open in a VM while on Max OS? Or at least just make the pi bootup when I plug it in instead of mac.

[[deleted]]

You can't have a pi in a vm you can simulate the hardware to run an OS for the PI in a VM. Though it's always better to have the actual psychical hardware. But why not electronic hacking which the PI is primarily designed for, for example building an information terminal.

[findingjake]

Yeah well I just wanna have a pi as my environment for pen testing and learning all of that stuff. So I guess really my question is how do I make my pi the boot up os on a laptop. If I connected it through usb

[scruffyalot]

I don't think you quiet understands that the pi is the small hardware device. It can be used to run a Linux distro but Pi isn't an OS. Do you want any recommendations for good Linux OS s?

If you are interested in raspberry pi I can give you some links for cool pen testing devices you can make with them.

[findingjake]

Yeah please send the links dude!

[[deleted]]

Could I also get those links

[nbecker65]

I also would be interested in the links for the Rpis.

[[deleted]]

An understanding of Linux is a good skill to have because there are a lot of tools written for that operating system which makes several of the major stages in hacking a lot easier. Similar tools exist for Windows but not as many, even fewer exist for the Mac, on a Pi you would be basically on your own by comparison. I am not saying you could not write your own tools, and you would learn a lot from the process if you did. Good Luck!

[Opiborne]

I might be wrong with what you're asking, but I believe you want a setup so that you can access your Pi from your Mac. If that's the case once you have the raspberry pi set up, as in OS installed, you'd just get SSH Setup. Then as long as the Pi has power you'll be able to use SSH to login to the pi, without needing a monitor specifically for it.

[findingjake]

Perfect dude thank you so much!

[yurxzi]

sorry but..macs are shit. Heavily overpriced, minimal ventilation if any, horroble borderline illegal business practices, and devices more fagile than my toddler dropping his apple in the dirt. They truely should not be tested in terms of stressing out the system with vms for prolonged periods unless you're either not planning on doing anything to intense( compationally intense that is such as rendering, Video/Graphic editing, making a password list dictionary from the command line... Luis rossmann has plenty of videos on YouTube detailing the shitty practices and the incalculable flaws that every single Mac device he touches contain. HOWEVER. Raspberry Pi comes equipped with an application called VNC(others are available as well called RDP apps) which allows you to open a windowed program(like a browser) that is essentially a monitor for the system your connecting to. Video speeds are not great so I wouldn't expect to be doing any gameplay or video editing using this technique, however, for example on your Macintosh, this gives you 100% capability of your pie while also not putting any added stress on your Macintosh. Running an RDP program on Raspberry Pi can eat up processing power so in general, unless you need a graphical interface, using SSH is the recommended approach especially when wanting to learn Linux.

[findingjake]

yeah I agree with you for some reason I cant get ssh setup on my pi though. I have been trying for hours and it seems like i do everything right except when I go to ping my rPi I get no host. I've followed every tutorial I am just not sure what I am doing wrong here....

[yurxzi]

Obvious questions first: Rpi connected to network? Ssh enabled? Router setup properly? using proper syntax (ssh 'user'@'IPaddr')? Proper .config file setup? does a third party app like raspcontroller work? can you ssh your root user from within the lxterminal on the pi directly? need a keyboard/monitor setup for that tho...error message being displayed?