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This is awesome!


Even for those who know the subject matter, building these VMs as demonstration is a long and difficult process - this is awesome not least because it's a huge amount of work by someone. :)

Having seen this I'm tempted to go build Vagrant boxes for these, so they can be updated and forked more easily.

Unfortunately these don't appear to be licensed, so unless they're declared open by the author, it'll require starting from scratch.


Why not build and then wait for DMCA, if not then it's ok to continue.


Not a bad idea actually.

Although I'd presumably have to be sure that the author is in the USA - or perhaps myself? (I'm in the UK, for reference)

The domain is WhoisGuard protected either way, so it's hard to be sure.


From the one blog post about RuxCon, I'd say the author is in Australia. Might be worth contacting them via https://ruxcon.org.au/contact-us/ as the person who made these had something to do with the CTF in 2012.


Thanks! I'll try that.


A guy I work with already did this.

Instructions on how to make the vagrant box: https://gitlab.com/mjwhitta/drifter/blob/master/docs/iso_onl...

Or use the ones he's already made until he gets told to take them down: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/mjwhitta




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