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Note: A large portion of content I post on my blog comes from "live blogging" of security conferences. These posts are in notes form and are written live during a talk. As such errors and emissions are expected. I'm only human after all!
One thing is to give credit when credit due, another thing is to use content without consent (sounds like intelectual rape or something) and IF someone ever complains, then offer to pay them to stfu…
They say ‘sharing is caring’, that’s why we blog when we have time. If I finally find some time to write something maybe interesting and then someone takes it and republishes for his own profit… there’s a special place in hell for charlatans like that.
This is the document we are given at university to help us avoid plagiarism:
Click to access citeitright.pdf
I understand what you’re saying, am familiar with the Gregory Evans’s that are in this world, and don’t really respect the sites that do full copies (the euphemism provided is that they are “aggregators”).
That said, I don’t necessarily agree with your point about referencing what someone else has done, and providing proper credit, being not copacetic. The entire basis of research, since the beginning of time, is building on the work of others. To simply say the information that is the basis of your work, and not credit those that did some of the foundational work, to me, is the greater crime.
Once work is published on the Intertubes, one should assume that it will move from being tacit (in their head) to explicit (in the heads of everyone who will read it). Wasn’t that one of the points when you created the post, to share something?
For example, if I were to write something about a new variant based on Zeus, I might make detailed reference to how Zeus works and then describe the variation and renaming I’m seeing in the work I’m doing. To re-reverse engineer Zeus would be kind of a pointless time sink when others have graciously done it and released their findings already. That said, there must be clear reference to who’s work you are citing as the basis of your own.
If we each have to discover everything from scratch, infosec is going to be even for f’d up then it already is. That said, the wholesale rip off of work, or the partial taking of work without credit, happens every day in every way, and it’s wrong.
Apologies, here is the up-to-date version:
Click to access CiteThemRight.pdf
Thanks for the comment, and I agree with what you’re saying.
My goal was to comment more on the aggregators of this world than people basing work on the shoulders of others… I have no problem with people boring information and giving credit… but stealing whole posts is nothing short of theft!
It’s a fine line between extending work and stealing work! … still I think we’re all intelligent enough to know the difference