On: GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One brea...

[brianzelip]

‘The lawsuit also makes a bold claim that "GitHub actively encourages (at least) friendly hacking." It then links to a GitHub repository named "Awesome Hacking.”[0]’

Oh brother.

[0] https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

[bentona → brianzelip]

While I do think that "hacking" is less demonized than it was circa "Hackers", it is not surprising that the attitude around a lawsuit is a little outdated. I'm just glad the target is an entity with sufficient resources to defend such a spurious accusation - a similar suit could probably destroy a smaller company.

[dfcmt → brianzelip]

"A collection of awesome lists for hackers, pentesters & security researchers."

They are not using "hacker" in the "Hacker News" sense of the word, they are using meaning breaking into some system. So no "oh brother" moment here.

[stordoff → dfcmt]

So? Trying to break into a system can be the only way to know it's reasonably secure. This is like saying locksmiths are bad. Preventing this makes systems _less_ secure, defeating the point of trying to ensure privacy.

It doesn't even appear to be an official GitHub page (Hack with GitHub - location: Bangalore, India, email: hackwithgithub@gmail.com). Just because someone creates an "X-with-Github" repository, it doesn't GitHub are actively encouraging X.

[buzzerbetrayed → dfcmt]

It’s a repository to help people learn computer security. Of course this is an “oh brother” moment.