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Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

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http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...

What is the relevance?

"An information security specialist with the US Army, O'Connor introduces the hacker's programming language Python to new users, and describes some advanced features to those who already know it."

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#23

Where do they get the "2,000 unique visitors" bit from? And 100 downloads... are they referring to the 92 forks? I think Public Affairs does not get Github.

For a given repo Github gives you the daily number of visits and unique visitors, as well as the number of times the repo was cloned (they don't give you the number of downloads of the zipped sources).

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#24
post #15

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Could you use a DMCA-like thing to get them to stop doing that?

Although they clearly broke my CY-BY-SA license by not sharing their work under the same license and not giving me any attribution, I'm not exactly sure what can I do to take it down, Hiring a lawyer for this is not an option for me considering that I'm just a student on a low budget.

Send to their ISP. Usually that's very efficient.

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#25
post #5

This is pretty cool. I didn't know the Army Research Lab used Python in any of their projects. Thanks for sharing this.

http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...

From the author of `How I Penetration Tested Your Mother`?

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you use a DMCA-like thing to get them to stop doing that?

AFAIK anybody can use the DMCA just like the record labels are using to take down tons of Youtube videos. There are customizable form letters out there for this very purpose.

DMCA only works in the USA. I work for a Portuguese record label and we get ignored when we ask the local Youtube copycats to remove our copyrighted content. I even suspect they download the videos from Youtube to upload on their services. And I'm talking about sites owned by the biggest telecommunications providers.

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#27
post #23

Where do they get the "2,000 unique visitors" bit from? And 100 downloads... are they referring to the 92 forks? I think Public Affairs does not get Github.

For a given repo Github gives you the daily number of visits and unique visitors, as well as the number of times the repo was cloned (they don't give you the number of downloads of the zipped sources).

Huh, where do I find those?

edit: Ah! They hide behind the bar chart diagram icon, /graphs/traffic

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#28

This is pretty cool. I didn't know the Army Research Lab used Python in any of their projects. Thanks for sharing this.

As of a decade ago the intelligence community loved open source, and in the domain I was in it took more than a song and dance to get them to accept Windows as an OS for your stuff instead of Linux.

We should rather be surprised if they aren't using wildly popular tools like Python (although not any particular one, since like in the civilian world different communities tend to pick out a small set of tools to work with, e.g. Google has only 4 or so blessed languages).

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK anybody can use the DMCA just like the record labels are using to take down tons of Youtube videos. There are customizable form letters out there for this very purpose.

DMCA only works in the USA. I work for a Portuguese record label and we get ignored when we ask the local Youtube copycats to remove our copyrighted content. I even suspect they download the videos from Youtube to upload on their services. And I'm talking about sites owned by the biggest telecommunications providers.

Sure, DMCA is an American legal construct. At this point it'd be a good idea to get in touch with a lawyer and see with the appropriate course of action for your country is.

Re: Army open-sources cyber defense code in new GitHub project

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post #24
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although they clearly broke my CY-BY-SA license by not sharing their work under the same license and not giving me any attribution, I'm not exactly sure what can I do to take it down, Hiring a lawyer for this is not an option for me considering that I'm just a student on a low budget.

Send to their ISP. Usually that's very efficient.

That could work, but I think that in the case of a "nationally known tabloid" chances are low.
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