YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

Post by thrwn_frthr_awy » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #168

thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #164

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I didn't talk about before YouTube existed–I'm talking about when YouTube became the defacto standard for online video. Independent video sites existed and flourished along side YouTube in the beginning. Sidenote: If we were having this conversation over beers at a meetup would you have said "Give me a break..." to me? Is this your conversational tone in person as well?

This is my HN tone because tons of people here love to play the “everything was better back in the day” card. Couple that with every mention of google bringing out people with huge axes to grind and it can become eye-roll city. Apologies for being so harsh.

Post by yahwrong » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC

thrwn_frthr_awy wrote: post #7

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…

Post by wiseleo » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 2:29 AM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #91

wiseleo wrote: post #69

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Start with understanding Unix file permission system and the meaning of /etc/services. It will snowball from there. You need to be proficient in Unix operating systems to have a knowledge base.

With all due respect, the question was about more modern times. I feel like this was better advice in the 90s and early 2000s. It's not like knowing those things is bad, I just don't know how applicable it is now. Today the scope is far too big and there are far too many different hacking disciplines now. The advice above was probably more suited to a time when people used to be granted shell access to university com…

Post by r_singh » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 6:41 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #155

input_sh wrote: post #93

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If you have, let's say, a billion users, each of which can report stuff, and have some algorithm that weeds out 90% of bogus reports, how big would your customer support team need to be to handle the remaining 10% in a reasonable time span?

That's a side effect of too much centralization. Grocery stores handle billions of customers daily and have no problem processing even 10% of them complaining about something, because there's lots of stores and each handles complaints themselves. Customer support scales linearly with the scale of the sector. You could say it's one of the negative side effects of globalization - instead of small market entities servin…

Post by bamboozled » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

wiseleo wrote: post #176

bamboozled wrote: post #91

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With all due respect, the question was about more modern times. I feel like this was better advice in the 90s and early 2000s. It's not like knowing those things is bad, I just don't know how applicable it is now. Today the scope is far too big and there are far too many different hacking disciplines now. The advice above was probably more suited to a time when people used to be granted shell access to university com…

The cloud is someone else's Unix computer. Understanding permissions leads to understanding of privilege escalation, interprocess communication, /proc, logging, avoiding logging, understanding /etc... Yep, that's where I would start.