Saturday, February 15, 2014:  Developers have finally released Kali Linux 1.0.6, with the new version of the Debian-derived Linux distribution being richly laden with goodness. It's indeed been a very long time coming, but it's eventually here. The latest release comes with prominent add-on like a new 3.12 kernel, a LUKS nuke feature, new Kali ARM build scripts, Kali AMAZON AMI and Google Compute image generation scripts.

The LUKS nuke feature is perhaps one of the more prominent ones to come with the release. A couple of days back before the official release, one of the developers had an idea to add a 'nuke' feature that will destroy all data stored in the Kali system after putting in a boot password. The developers made use of an old cryptsetup patch created back in 2008 by Juergen Pabel adding a nuke password to cryptsetup which when used, deletes all keyslots and makes the data on the drive inaccessible.

However, the patch is non-invasive and will not change anything for anyone that does not want to use it. The updated cryptsetup package is present in Kali 1.0.6 by default.

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