Sexyhacking.com censorship fail.

It’s a weekend, so I’m all for a fun post.

The sexyhacking.com videos are not safe for work, however they’re probably even less arousing than you’d think.  They are hosted on YouTube, after all.  You might want to have a look, though, since they’re funny (intentionally and unintentionally), and who knows how long they’ll actually be around.

In the second video, described as Episode 1 in a series called “Naughty Script K1dd13″, basic compilation and usage of nmap is covered by a somewhat disinterested teacher.  It must be hot in the classroom, since she’s unbuttoned her shirt about halfway down.  Strangely enough, while nmap is displaying its scan, they censor the IP addresses involved with COPS-style pixelization:

If you’re paying more attention to the terminal than the girl, you’ll notice that they’re not very thorough.  At 3:49, we catch the video editor asleep at the wheel as the traceroute pops up :

…and at 3:50, the censor wakes up :) :

I’m not even sure why they’re attempting to hide the IP address.  It’s stated in the narration that sexyhacking.com will be used as the target, and the IP address revealed above is simply what you’d get doing a DNS lookup of sexyhacking.com…

(so long as Dan Kaminsky isn’t angry at you)

So, to sum it up:  If you’re redacting information out of a video you’re publishing, you not only have to worry about people being able to reverse engineer your pixelation (just black it out!), you’ll also have to make sure you blot it out of every frame :) .