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Using Kali Linux To Track A Devices’ Location.

There are a lot of ways to figure out someone’s location. But this is the easiest one.

Bryan Dijkhuizen
3 min readNov 15, 2021
Photo by henry perks on Unsplash

In this tutorial, we are going to use a tool that’s called Seeker, which is a Python program. We are using Kali Linux as our environment since it’s ‘hack-friendly

What’s Kali Linux?

Kali Linux since March 2013, the successor to the popular open-source — Linux distribution BackTrack. The operating system can be used as a live system as well as bare metal. It has been specially developed for security tests, the so-called penetration tests.

Kali Linux aims to detect vulnerabilities from networks and authentication protocols so that security can be increased. Kali Linux is based on Debian and works on the following platforms: i386 (x86), AMD64 (x86–64), and ARM. Kali Linux is very popular among hackers because this Linux distribution contains many tools that can scan for exploits and generate password lists, for example.

Kali Linux contains more than 950 pre-installed programs for testing, including Nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a package analysis tool), John the Ripper (password cracker).

Metasploit Framework (a tool to develop and run exploits) and Aircrack-ng (software to capture…

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Bryan Dijkhuizen

Written by Bryan Dijkhuizen

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/

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