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Jul 4, 2009
BackTrack 4 Pre Final – Feel the pwnsauce!
BackTrack 4 Pre Final download statistics
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Two weeks later..
- 130232 downloads of BackTrack 4 Pre-Final since the release.
- This number does not include torrents, direct dls or black market underground copies.
- That translates to 182325 GB of traffic served from our mirrors in the past two weeks.
- Our repository serves 120 GB of traffic a day (not downloads)
- We’re on our 7th security update (BTSU’s – they get posted on our twitter page)
- Cool updates in the repo, like pycuda, pyrit 2.3, cowpatty 4.6, medusa 1.5 and lots more
- By the time i finished this blog post, the download count was at 130408 130427
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