Running Kali on Android phones and tablets

When it comes to portability, nothing beats the form factor of today's tablets and phones. Most of the current smartphones on the market boast of multicore processors, a decent amount of RAM, expandable storage using SD cards, and most of all, they fit in your pocket. While it's probably not very effective to use them as a full-fledged hacking platform, there are some cases where Android devices can provide a great complimentary device to either a full distribution on a laptop or even a Raspberry Pi or OpenWrt concealable.

In this section, we will show you how to load Kali on a rooted Android device with minimal effort and add it to your security assessment toolkit:

  1. To begin, ensure that the device you ...

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