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HolyGhost publishes cybersecurity research and educational material. Please read these terms carefully. By accessing this website or using anything published on it, you agree to everything set out below. If you do not agree, do not use this site.

1. Educational and informational purpose only

All content on HolyGhost is provided strictly for general educational, informational, and defensive security purposes. It is intended to help security professionals, researchers, students, and system owners understand how vulnerabilities and attacks work so they can better defend against them. Nothing here is an instruction, encouragement, or invitation to break the law or to attack any system, network, account, or person.

2. Not professional advice

The content is general in nature and is not professional, legal, or security advice for your specific situation, and it does not create any client, advisory, or fiduciary relationship. You should obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional before acting on anything you read here. You rely on this material entirely at your own risk.

3. Authorised use and lawful conduct

Security testing techniques described on this site must only ever be used against systems that you own or for which you hold explicit, written authorisation to test. Accessing, testing, or interfering with computer systems, networks, data, or accounts without authorisation is illegal in most jurisdictions, including under the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) and related state and territory laws in Australia, and equivalent legislation elsewhere.

You are solely and entirely responsible for how you use any information from this site and for ensuring that your actions comply with all applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and policies. HolyGhost does not condone, support, or accept any responsibility for unlawful or unauthorised use of this material.

4. Provided “as is”, no warranty

All content, including any code, commands, scripts, tools, and techniques, is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties or representations of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non infringement. Technical information can be wrong, incomplete, or become out of date, and code samples may be dangerous if run outside an isolated test environment. Verify everything independently and run untrusted code only in a lab you control.

5. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, HolyGhost, its author, and any contributors will not be liable for any loss, damage, cost, or expense of any kind, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive, arising out of or in connection with your access to, use of, or reliance on this website or its content, even if advised of the possibility of such loss. This includes, without limitation, any damage to systems or data, loss of profits, or legal consequences resulting from your own actions.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable law. Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted.

6. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless HolyGhost, its author, and any contributors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or connected with your use or misuse of this website or its content, or your breach of these terms or of any law.

7. Personal views, no affiliation

HolyGhost is an independent, personal project. All views, opinions, and research published here are those of the author personally. They do not represent and are not endorsed by, authorised by, or connected with any current or former employer, client, or organisation the author is associated with. No confidential or client information is published here.

8. Research and responsible disclosure

Research involving third party products or services is conducted in good faith and, where relevant, follows responsible disclosure practices. References to vulnerabilities, vendors, products, and other researchers' work are made for commentary, education, and reporting. Content is published only after issues are publicly known or appropriately disclosed. If you are a vendor and have a concern about a specific post, please make contact using the details below.

9. Intellectual property, trademarks, and takedowns

Unless stated otherwise, the original writing on this site is the property of the author and is protected by copyright. You may quote short excerpts for non commercial commentary, study, or reporting with clear attribution and a link back. Do not republish whole articles without permission.

Product names, logos, trademarks, and vulnerability identifiers referenced here remain the property of their respective owners and are used only for identification, commentary, and educational purposes, which does not imply any affiliation or endorsement. If you believe content on this site infringes your copyright or other rights, contact the author with details and it will be reviewed and, where appropriate, promptly removed or corrected.

10. Third party links

This site links to external websites and resources that are not controlled by HolyGhost. Those links are provided for convenience and reference only. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, or practices of any third party site, and a link does not imply endorsement.

11. Privacy and analytics

HolyGhost aims to collect as little as possible. This site uses privacy friendly, cookieless analytics to understand aggregate traffic and performance. It does not use tracking cookies, does not sell personal information, and does not build advertising profiles of visitors. Standard server and content delivery logs may be processed by our hosting provider to operate and secure the site. By using the site you consent to this limited processing.

12. Changes

Content and these terms may be updated, corrected, or removed at any time without notice. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms. The “last updated” date above shows when these terms were last revised.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, and you submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State. If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.

14. Contact

For legal notices, takedown requests, disclosure concerns, or corrections, contact the author on X.

This page is a general notice, not legal advice, and does not cover every situation. For a binding, jurisdiction specific policy you should have it reviewed by a qualified lawyer.