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YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
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Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#52I dont understand this, if it can be bypassed, by definition, it is not secure?
As if there is any truly secure system on earth. Name a secure system.
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#53Rhetorical question: If a YouTube video can show how to bypass it, does it really count as a "secure" system?
I believe "secure system" is shorthand for "a system intended to be secure".
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#54There are thousands of hours of excellent cybersecurity content hosted on YouTube. The possibility of losing this wealth of information and history is shocking to me. Time to start the archive effort. And to finally appreciate what so many other communities have gone through when they've found themselves on the wrong side of one of the internet behemoths. I feel naive.
Do you have any recommendations on channels to archive?
- Many convention talks are really good and are too many to list
- OWASP
- zseano
- hackerone
- Bugcrowd (Jason Haddix's stuff is a pretty important pillar)
- OWASP
- DarkOperator
- Absolute AppSec
- KacperSzureEN
- PwnFunction
- LiveOverflow
There are a ton more, these are just ones I've been watching in the past 6 months or so.
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#55This is as good a time as any to start archiving your favorite channels, you can point youtube-dl at a video URL, a playlist, or a username. brew install youtube-dl youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference/ Showing 2460 videos, I'll have to grab a few harddrives.
but why? there's still https://media.defcon.org/
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#56Does this mean that all the reverse engineering videos, con talks, prof of exploit demos, CTF walkthroughs', and fuzzing tutorials will be removed? What about videos showing me how to use tools like Twistlock? Will they be exempt, but videos about burp be banned? What constitutes a "secure" computer system? Side note, I guess its time to fire up youtube-dl. Are there any channels that need to be archived? I normally…
Please use tubeup [1] to backup at risk videos to the Internet Archive. It uses youtube-dl on the backend for retrieving content, subtitles, etc, and will properly set metadata for the item in the archive. The content will be darked if there’s an issue serving it, and the IA staff and storage system will throttle you if necessary (which will bubble up as s3 timeouts).
DEFCON, CCC, and other infosec groups need to move to peertube ASAP.
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rhetorical answer: If you can secure a system through legislation, it is no longer necessary to secure it through engineering.
That's certainly the (false) belief under which many legislative and governmental bodies operate.
I don't think they believe it either. It's just easier to treat people as criminals by default. Why go through the effort of engineering things properly when you can have 10+ cops break down your door and shoot your dog?
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#58My guess is that a tech player with a big ad spend is unhappy about YouTube tutorials teaching users to de-DRM their content or jailbreak their consumer devices.
I had no clue how the publishing world worked until I read fsj- turns out everything is about ads. You post a bad review And boom- you no longer have apple as an advertiser. FSJ claims that IBM invented this game and apple beat them later at it.
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#59There are thousands of hours of excellent cybersecurity content hosted on YouTube. The possibility of losing this wealth of information and history is shocking to me. Time to start the archive effort. And to finally appreciate what so many other communities have gone through when they've found themselves on the wrong side of one of the internet behemoths. I feel naive.
Do you have any recommendations on channels to archive?
'Adrian Crenshaw' He uploads from more than 20 hacking/infosec cons a year and has around 2k videos.
'IppSec' has around 100 CTF walkthroughs.
'Open SecurityTraining' has ~200 tutorial vids on topics like reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Edit: added a few more.
Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
#60Youtube updating its policy to ban videos they have already monetized from, while the creators get nothing. Youtube is a monopoly. Creators need to get off YT, and onto something else if it exists.
Creators can host their own content with their own sponsorship and advertising agreements on their own domain and pay their own bandwidth bill.
YouTube was born in an era of a half dozen different non-standard codecs. Now H.264/MP4 works on everything from TVs to watches.
The reality is that most content on YouTube isn’t even worth the bandwidth it costs to get it to people. Most creators are just looking for a handout for creating mindless nonsense.