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Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

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post #10

Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there? I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform. This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.

Right. I miss when people did their own thing. Nowadays I'm directed to a handful of websites for content.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#23

What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming ? As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)

I always think he’s mostly right, but a little too uncompromising, but then everything he says comes true. I don’t know how he predicted so far ahead at the time, it’s humbling. As a software author working at startups, am I part of the problem? I don’t understand how to make a good living without locking down the code to some extent, with few exceptions (it’s hard to found red hat)

He is technically correct, idealistic, and uncompromising. Unfortunately that doesn't really work in the real world unless your name is Richard Stallman. It's not pragmatic.

I ignore him.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#24

What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming ? As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)

Cracking and reverse-engineering DRM is already illegal with the accepted US laws, so it's not far fetched for YouTube to be forced to remove those videos as well.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#26

YouTube is now officially dead to me. R I P

Don't know why you're downvoted. Probably because quite a few people here work for Google. I hate this downvote/upvote system so damn much.

It is downvoted because it is incorrect.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#28
post #10

Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there? I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform. This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.

Discoverability is the issue. I wish there was an established way to discover content regardless of the platform it’s hosted on.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#29
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't know why you're downvoted. Probably because quite a few people here work for Google. I hate this downvote/upvote system so damn much.

It is downvoted because it is incorrect.

What's incorrect? It was a personal comment? Even here we've got people who boss over others due to lack of understanding. Can't expect that from machines.

Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

#30
post #24

What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming ? As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)

Cracking and reverse-engineering DRM is already illegal with the accepted US laws, so it's not far fetched for YouTube to be forced to remove those videos as well.

But it is decidedly legal to publish materials that explain how to do so.
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