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YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
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#232Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#233This creates opportunities for niche driven video sites to show up, if they have not already. For example "YouTube for infosec". The web is going to go more towards specialisation as the "one place for all kinds of content of this format" model is becoming too big to handle. For various reasons, from searching, to moderation, to curation.
But video is the most expensive thing to transmit over the interwebs. How do we afford it? Where do we get the interest to fund it?
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#234Sss
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#235What'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)
Its refreshing to see the sentiment among HN crowd has shifted and embracing RMS. Few years ago the comment section was dismissing RMS outright as not being practical.
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#236The thing that bores me the most is that the sentence not event makes sense. "Showing users how to bypass secure computer systems". If you can bypass a computer system, in which way can it be considered secure?
Because every security system is potentially flawed, contain bugs and therefore is vulnerable to hacking.
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#237Lock-picking is probably next then...
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#238The thing that bores me the most is that the sentence not event makes sense. "Showing users how to bypass secure computer systems". If you can bypass a computer system, in which way can it be considered secure?
Because every security system is potentially flawed, contain bugs and therefore is vulnerable to hacking.
secure system != security system
There is such a thing as an insecure security system.
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#239The thing that bores me the most is that the sentence not event makes sense. "Showing users how to bypass secure computer systems". If you can bypass a computer system, in which way can it be considered secure?
Because every security system is potentially flawed, contain bugs and therefore is vulnerable to hacking.
But knowing the flaw makes it insecure.
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#240The internet promised so much, but is being ruined by corporations and governments. I can't help but feel the ruining is accelerating. I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free speech. If anyone is capable, they are. The discovery problem is an illusion. If you build it, they will come.
Nah, all the old services are still out there and still work. You can still use irc, you can still set up your own mail and web server. There are even new alternatives, from tor to other hidden/dark/free...nets.
But people are too lazy, and find the "just use the largest corporate platform" very convenient, especially if it's "free".
edit: ...which is a problems, since also your viewers only use that "one big" platform, and don't check elsewhere.