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Early 2005, while I was still new in the Network Security field, I grabbed a book The Tao of Network Security Monitoring written by Richard Bejtlich. I was impressed with the skill and mastery Rich presented the concepts used to effectively examine network data. I was also inspired by the use of Open Source tools.
At about the same time, mydfcon group started discussions on the creation of a security based liveCD lead by toxicle. Unfortunately, daily life kept us from moving forward in development.
After a few months of delay, chfl4gs_ and I picked up the idea and started doing a little more research into the specific details required to actually make one. We had found that there are many liveCDs out there. However, their target audience was more towards desktop users, penetration testers or system engineers. We did not find a liveCD that ran in line with our passion, network security analysis. After all, packet monkeys need a liveCD too! We also learned about and decided to use Freesbie2 toolkits to create the liveCD since both of us were already familiar with FreeBSD.
Thus far, we have made good progress, but it has taken a lot of hard work and effort. Originally the name of this liveCD was Analyzt liveCD, we changed it to raWPacket in the second phase. Now we decided to use raWPacket for our group name and change the liveCD to - Hex liveCD. The reasons behind this can be found here.
The Team
Original Idea & Leader: geek00l
Main Developer: chfl4gs_
Developer: Dakrone
Developer: Enhanced
Web Master: GuTi
Designer: Vickson Tan
Advisor: Spoonfork
Contributor: tenner(Fluxbox Style and .Xdefaults config)
Contributor: paulh(FreeBSD port)
IRC Channel: Freenode #rawpacket
Trac: https://trac.security.org.my/hex/wiki
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/HeX-liveCD