How am I supposed to start learning pentesting / hacking when kali linux is shot down by the devRant community?

Yes, I would rather start with some source that would get me writing code to do it, I just don't know which is it. Maybe sourceforge?

Cyber sec guy here, i love kali tbh! Don't know where all the hate comes from really...

And of course, writing tools is good but why write everything yourself when there are ready to use tools 😄

@linuxxx actually, bcause I had a wild idea: using a machine learning algorithm (Genetic Programming, i.e. evolutionary automatic writing of a program) to penetrate some platform (wide meaning of the word).

Thus, getting to see some code would help me determine if such is possible, I think.

I reckon, however, that this is full naïveness coming from someone who knows nothing of security yet.

But I am definirely learning kali! I want to educate myself on cyber security regardless 😃

@honeyBadgerJeff Nahh that sounds like something cool to do (providing you do it on something that's yours, nothing illegal)