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**Are you the copyright holder or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf?**

Yes, I am authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

**Are you submitting a revised DMCA notice after GitHub Trust & Safety requested you make changes to your original notice?**

No

**Does your claim involve content on GitHub or npm.js?**

GitHub

**Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.**

I am a [private] of Hack The Box Ltd. and am authorized to request DMCA takedowns on their behalf.

**Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed. If possible, include a URL to where it is posted online.**

The original work is a hands-on penetration testing lab that we created. It is a piece of proprietary educational content used to help train penetration testers. Both the specific mechanism of function for our labs, as well as the solutions for how they can be solved, are our intellectual property. Below can be found links to the published labs which are having their copyright violated.

**What files should be taken down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository’s URL.**

The violating file(s) specified below are not pieces of code, but are rather documents which outline solutions to the aforementioned training labs.  
They provide step by step solutions to our proprietary content as well as reveal internal information about their mechanism of function.

As we are an educational/training content provider, the documents linked below directly infringes upon our copyrighted intellectual property.

Our Terms of Service can be found here: https://www.hackthebox.com/tos

Section 2 (Intellectual Property Rights) outlines the nature of our intellectual property and the rights under which it is protected.

Section 3 (Rights and Obligations of the User) outlines the restrictions on sharing proprietary solutions or other information related to our intellectual property:  
- Users must not share in any way any of the “solutions” to the “machines” or "challenges" included in the WEBSITE, save the retired ones.  
- Users must not share in any way any of the “solutions” to the “pro labs” included in the WEBSITE.

Below is listed links to the specific files which violate our copyright, as well as the link to the corresponding piece of intellectual property that they violate.

https://jerrylinlinlin.github.io/posts/htb-academy-password-attacks-lab-medium/- https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/password-attacks  
https://jerrylinlinlin.github.io/posts/htb-academy-password-attacks-lab-hard/ - https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/password-attacks  
https://jerrylinlinlin.github.io/posts/htb-academy-pivoting-tunneling-and-port-forwarding-skills-assessment/ - https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/pivoting-tunneling-and-port-forwarding  
https://jerrylinlinlin.github.io/posts/htb-academy-windows-privilege-escalation-skills-assessment-i/ - https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/windows-privilege-escalation  
https://jerrylinlinlin.github.io/posts/htb-academy-linux-privilege-escalation-skills-assessment/ - https://academy.hackthebox.com/course/preview/linux-privilege-escalation

**Do you claim to have any technological measures in place to control access to your copyrighted content? Please see our <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice#complaints-about-anti-circumvention-technology">Complaints about Anti-Circumvention Technology</a> if you are unsure.**

No

**<a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy#b-what-about-forks-or-whats-a-fork">Have you searched for any forks</a> of the allegedly infringing files or repositories? Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down.**

No Forks Found

**Is the work licensed under an open source license?**

No

**What would be the best solution for the alleged infringement?**

Reported content must be removed

**Do you have the alleged infringer’s contact information? If so, please provide it.**

**I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.**

**I have taken <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/22">fair use</a> into consideration.**

**I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.**

**I have read and understand GitHub's <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice/">Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice</a>.**

**So that we can get back to you, please provide either your telephone number or physical address.**

Name of the copyright owner: Hack The Box Ltd

Phone: [private]

Country: [private]

Street address: [private]

City: [private]

County: [private]

Postcode: [private]

[private]

**Please type your full legal name below to sign this request.**

[private]
