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

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Post by sterlind »

thevardanian wrote: post #127
xtracto wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I am worried is that a lot of the "cool stuff" is disappearing from the web. I remember back in the day (late 90's) we had CrackStore, Phrack, Fravia, DeCSS, the box.sk domains a vibrant reverse-eng. community and a lot of really cool content. Nowadays with the USA policing a lot of that content has disappeared, and slowly people are pushed not to do new content. There are some very small efforts in some subredd…

In fact are there any other good gathering places than some obscure subreddits?

Discord? I've had good luck with chat rooms these days.

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Post by yebyen »

userbinator wrote: post #41
jammygit wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I think he was a bit off with regards to source code/open source, because while having source code helps in understanding and modification, it's not essential; you could similarly imagine a world in which open-source wasn't a huge movement but instead the right to reverse-engineer (or basically, understand ) software was guaranteed, and it would have as great an effect on freedom; perhaps even more so, because now it…

It's harder to argue that reverse engineering is harmed by open source, in a world of software patents and copyright protection that occasionally permits interop, but always prohibits competition

The alternative to working on favorably licensed OSS that you posit, is roundly illegal, unless you had no designs on modification and/or redistribution of a derivative work.

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/a/73

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Post by Swizec »

Avamander wrote: post #113
Swizec wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My fav part is repeatedly getting recommendations for many years old videos when something like a week’s worth of new comments is uploaded every minute ... why youtube why?

I've noticed older videos as well and often they're really good. Not everything new is better.

But it recommends me videos I remember seeing 5 years ago that just seems unnecessary

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

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Post by xupybd »

If there is any group capable of finding a new home and thriving it's the infosec crowd.

This is another move from YouTube to limit their content to more advertising friendly genres. I don't like it but it gives me hope there may be some competitors rise up in that space.

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Post by ridaj »

hobs wrote: post #12
xwdv wrote: 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.

Its much much much more expensive to host video content than anything else.

Well yes and certainly much much more expensive than free. But the real term for free hosting is "paid for out of someone else's ad budget"

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

StillBored wrote: post #87
userbinator wrote: post #7

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.)

The big thing RMS misses in that article is all the bio-identification that has been happening the last couple years. Dan is going to get caught because the machine takes a picture of him when he logs in with a password instead of the fingerprint reader, cause you know can't have a PC without a camera pointed at the user..

Not getting caught led Dan to question if the bio-id AI was really that intelligent and helped release thousands of wrongfully convicted people 20 years later!

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Post by kstrauser »

jordigh wrote: post #64

I wonder if this will give a boost to a new Peertube instance dedicated to infosec content. Seems like this should be right up infosec's people alley. Peertube uses web torrenting to distribute videos, so it should be possible to host it without needing the massive delivery infrastructure of Youtube.

More about PeerTube: https://joinpeertube.org/en/

I've volunteered my instance (https://video.freeradical.zone) to host infosec videos, in accordance with the theme of my Mastodon instance at https://freeradical.zone/ . This is explicitly within my terms of service.

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Post by smittywerben »

xwdv wrote: 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.

I didn’t forget, I try to minimize my exposure of untrusted javascript. But I might be in the cautious minority.

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

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Post by komali2 »

sterlind wrote: post #120
StillBored wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big thing RMS misses in that article is all the bio-identification that has been happening the last couple years. Dan is going to get caught because the machine takes a picture of him when he logs in with a password instead of the fingerprint reader, cause you know can't have a PC without a camera pointed at the user..

On the upside, that's literally the only scenario where hackers typing on computers wearing balaklavas would actually happen.

Damn, we got the fingerless gloves wrong, though. Didn't think about hiding our fingerprints.
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