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Is there an official page from YouTube that lists banned categories? Even YouTube's public policy page [1] doesn't mention anything about educational hacking videos. [1] https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines
It's just a rephrasing of their existing policy. It's the same idea of why they don't let you show videos advocating building bombs and using them in terrorist attacks. The videos that are banned are based on people trying to use these techniques to commit crimes. Not banning "hacking" in general.
This is the safe, nice YouTube you've been asking for. Hope you enjoy it. Remember when we were saying that it was going to end badly when the mainstream media were pressuring advertisers to have a moral stance on the content their advertisements are shown with? Well, this is exactly what was bound to happen. YouTube is (gradually, to reduce backlash) becoming Disney-VEVO-Time Warner tube, and that means they're goin…
A quick search on Google shows plenty of educational content in hacking, some from Google themselves. I'd say this borders on conspiracy theory at this point.
Is there an official page from YouTube that lists banned categories? Even YouTube's public policy page [1] doesn't mention anything about educational hacking videos. [1] https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines
This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
Give me a break...
This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
What are you talking about? What niche video sites existed before YouTube? Seriously. Video on the internet wasn’t really a thing before YouTube. Give me a break...
This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
Maybe it's the wrong mindset, but imo compensation is precisely why the internet stopped being like that. When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things. They might try to make something look nice and be slick for the end user, but they won't usually hire people or use big studios. This contributed to a culture where the very best people in the fi…
I don't know, I feel like it's the opposite
When you look at the myriad X-Files or guitar pedal schematic or whatever site, they could be endlessly detailed because it's what people did for fun. Nobody maxes out on fun.
I do, however, max out my work hours...generally as quickly as possible. D In a behavioral psych class, we had the "Bart vs Lisa" analogy of working.
If we pay Bart to study, his grades will increase. If we pay Lisa to study, her grades will decrease. I've forgotten the original papers this was based on because it's not my area.
Anyway. I'm sure Bart's work for pay is equivalent or better than Lisa's free work.
If asked, any rational human would work an hour for $5 versus $0, right? Nobody can spend time making anything complex or useful and then give it away freely.
I learned security from t-files, 8lgm, phrack, and bugtraq. The people who taught me learned it from mentorship. The only meaningful progress in security is by people who work against it. It's a craft subculture, and the real value of it is in securing the freedom of people to not be subjects of platforms. YouTube is lame for doing this, but it's a net positive for innovation. Let them have their walled suburb. Innov…
What, if any, advice would you offer someone who would like to begin learning about security today?
This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…
> Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things True Honest Question. What were these sights? I was a teenage in the 1990s. I seriously and literally do not know and now I want to.
Video was all through real player and was grainy, postage stamp affairs that constantly suffered from buffer underruns. It sucked. There was no independent dudes exploring abondoned buildings with high quality production (the proper people). No dudes picking locks in under 30 seconds (lock picking lawyer). No people taking apart power tools (ave).
None of that existed before YouTube. YouTube has dramatically changed the content landscape for the better—both for the producer and consumer. We’ve never lived in a greater time of independent content than now.