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The $1,295 Nexus 5-based Pwn Phone from Pwnie Express is an Android device that can do a lot of evil in order to do some good, Ars Technica reports. The device, which runs a custom Android 4.4 KitKat ROM filled with tons of potentially malicious tools, can be easily operated remotely by security personnel and was designed for network-related security purposes. “What we’ve done is taken Android 4.4 KitKat and recompiled the kernel,” Pwnie Express’ Kevin Reilly said. “On the backend, it runs our own derivative of Kali Linux, called Pwnix. Essentially it’s running a full-blown Debian OS on the back-end of Android.“ The Pwn Phone contains 103 network monitoring and attack tools preloaded, with 26 of them ready to be launched by touch directly from