trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

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"Knowledge is powerful, be careful how you use it!" A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more. This repository is a collection of various materials and tools that I use every day in my work. It contains a lot of useful information gathered in one piece. It is an invaluable source of knowledge for me that I often look back on. For everyone, really. Here everyone can find their favourite tastes. But to be perfectly honest, it is aimed towards System and Network administrators, DevOps, Pentesters, and Security Researchers. If you find something which doesn't make sense, or something doesn't seem right, please make a pull request and please add valid and well-reasoned explanations about your changes or comments. A few simple rules for this project: These below rules may be better: Url marked \ is temporary unavailable. Please don't delete it without confirming…

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A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

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Owner: trimstray
Primary language: Not reported
Stars: 254,681
Forks: 14,709
Open issues + pull requests: 178
License: MIT
Archived: No
Default branch: master
Created: 2018-06-23T10:43:14.000Z
Last push: 2024-11-19T14:00:38.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: awesome, awesome-list, bsd, cheatsheets, devops, guidelines, hacking, hacks, howtos, linux, lists, manuals, one-liners, pentesters, resources, search-engines, security, security-researchers, sysops

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