# Battering > "Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last > stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell it > burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled > in riven fragments to the ground." Battering is a [Guix channel](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html) designed for penetration testing, security assessment, and all-around hacking. ```scheme (channel (name 'battering) (url "https://codeberg.org/Clombrong/battering") (branch "master") (introduction (make-channel-introduction "5f871159d247483b9beba5d6c4ad9733ab9de148" (openpgp-fingerprint "0F1D 4D47 F92B E468 B041 1E19 07B8 6057 C019 5C64")))) ```