The following terms have the meanings set out below throughout these Terms and the Privacy Policy:
By accessing or using any page under the Site — including damned.wtf/infosec, damned.wtf/lol, and all other subpaths — you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms in full. Your use of the Site constitutes your acceptance. If you do not agree, you must immediately stop using the Site.
These Terms apply to all users regardless of how they access the Site (direct URL, link, embed, search engine, or otherwise). Lack of awareness of these Terms is not a defence. Continued access after any revision constitutes your acceptance of the updated version.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, limits, or waives any right, remedy, warranty, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, limited, or waived under applicable law — including mandatory consumer-protection and data-protection rights in your country of residence. Where any clause conflicts with such mandatory rights, those rights prevail and the rest of these Terms continue to apply.
The Site provides static, client-side educational content, served directly to your browser. The only server-side processing is a one-time human-verification check (Cloudflare Turnstile) that gates access to keep automated bots out. There are no user accounts, no data persistence, and no tracking implemented or controlled by the Operator.
You must meet the minimum age applicable in your jurisdiction — see §14 for jurisdiction-specific requirements. The content on the Site is technical and educational in nature; it assumes a baseline understanding of web technologies.
By using the Site, you represent that you meet the applicable age requirement in your jurisdiction.
All content on the Site is provided strictly for personal, educational, and informational purposes.
The following are prohibited, without limitation:
All content is provided strictly for educational and awareness purposes only. Nothing on the Site constitutes professional security, legal, or technical advice. Do not rely on it as a substitute for professional consultation.
The Site and all content are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator of damned.wtf — a single private individual operating a personal, non-commercial educational site with no registered legal entity — shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages arising from your use of or inability to use the Site — including reliance on any information presented here.
You use this Site entirely at your own risk, and the Operator owes you nothing for it. The Site is and always has been free — no payment, subscription, fee, or consideration of any kind is required or solicited — and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator excludes all liability for any loss, damage, or consequence arising from your use of or reliance on the Site, regardless of the theory of liability (contract, tort, negligence, statute, or otherwise) and regardless of whether the Operator was warned such loss was possible. The only liability not excluded is liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — such as for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence — because no document can waive those.
All information on this Site is provided on an "as-is" basis and may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or errors at the time of publication or later — the Operator makes no warranty that any information is accurate, complete, or current.
Any external requests made while using the Site (e.g. clicking links to third-party services) are initiated directly from your browser. The Operator does not proxy, intercept, log, or receive any data from these requests.
The Operator is not responsible for the availability, accuracy, privacy practices, or content of any third-party site or service. Requests to third parties are governed solely by those parties' own terms and policies.
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All original content, code, and design on damned.wtf is the property of the Operator unless otherwise noted. You may view and reference content for personal and educational use.
You may not reproduce, redistribute, or commercially exploit any content from the Site without explicit written permission. Third-party libraries, fonts, and services used on the Site retain their respective licences and ownership.
The Operator may update these Terms at any time without prior notice. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Non-material changes take effect immediately upon posting. If a material change is ever made, it will be made clearly visible on this page.
Continued use of any part of the Site after a revision constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. Checking this page periodically is your responsibility.
These Terms are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction where the Operator is habitually resident, subject to any mandatory provisions of the law of the user's country of residence that cannot be excluded by agreement.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in these Terms is intended to (nor can it lawfully) deprive you of the benefit of any mandatory consumer-protection, data-protection (including GDPR / UK GDPR), or other rules that apply under the law of your habitual residence and cannot be derogated from by contract.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify the Operator of damned.wtf — a single private individual — against third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of:
This obligation survives termination of your access to the Site and these Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable under applicable law, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if modification is not possible.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any single provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions, which shall continue in full force and effect as if the invalid provision had never been included.
The Operator's failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms on any occasion shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision going forward. No waiver of any term shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of that term or any other term.
Any waiver must be made explicitly and in writing to be effective. Prior non-enforcement of these Terms does not create any expectation of continued non-enforcement.
The minimum age to use the Site without parental supervision varies by jurisdiction. You represent that you meet the applicable minimum in yours:
Users under 18 in any jurisdiction should use the Site only with the knowledge and consent of a parent or legal guardian. By using the Site, you represent that you satisfy the applicable age requirement.
Your use of the Site is also governed by the Operator's Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. In short: the Operator runs no accounts, analytics, advertising, or tracking, and keeps no user records beyond a strictly-necessary human-verification check. Limited technical data is processed by infrastructure providers (e.g. Cloudflare) to deliver and protect the Site, as described in the Privacy Policy.
This Site is a personal notebook made public for educational purposes — nothing more. Your use of the Site is voluntary and at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive claims against the Operator arising from your reliance on general educational content found or linked here, except where such waiver is not permitted by applicable law. This waiver does not affect claims arising from the Operator's fraud or wilful misconduct, or any rights that cannot lawfully be waived.
In particular, you accept that you use the Site at your own risk with respect to:
The Site is a static, client-side educational resource operated by a private individual, fronted only by a bot-check gate. The Operator has no visibility into, control over, or stored records of any user's actions, identity, or behaviour — because no such data is collected or retained by the Operator. The verification cookie is a stateless signed token held only in your own browser, of which the Operator keeps no copy.
By accessing the Site, you acknowledge and agree that:
In response to a valid subpoena, court order, or law enforcement request, the Operator can only produce records it actually holds. The Operator does not keep server-side user accounts, analytics, or application-level browsing logs. Infrastructure providers (e.g. Cloudflare hosting/CDN) may independently process and retain technical data — such as IP address, user agent, and bot-detection signals — under their own policies and retention practices, and requests for that data should be directed to them.
Your use of the Site and any information found here is entirely voluntary. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you assume the risks associated with that use — including but not limited to:
The Operator makes no representation that use of this Site is appropriate, safe, or lawful in your jurisdiction. You bear the entire risk as to the quality, accuracy, and performance of anything provided here. All information on this Site may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or errors at the time of publication or later — you are solely responsible for verifying any information before acting on it. This assumption of risk does not apply to claims arising solely from the Operator's proven fraud or wilful misconduct.
The Operator reserves the right, at sole discretion and without prior notice, to:
You have no right to continued access. Termination of your access does not relieve you of any obligations or liabilities incurred under these Terms prior to termination. All provisions that by their nature should survive — including but not limited to §11, §16, §17, §18, and §21 — remain in full force after termination.
The following sections of these Terms survive indefinitely after you stop using the Site, after any termination of access, and regardless of any future revision to these Terms:
Additionally, the following sections of the Privacy Policy survive indefinitely: §02 (Information Collected), §05 (Data Sharing & Third Parties), §10 (Disclaimer of Warranties & Liability), §18 (No Anonymity & No Security Guarantee), §19 (Law Enforcement & Legal Process), and §20 (Indemnification & Survival).
Your agreement to these surviving provisions is irrevocable and cannot be undone by ceasing use of the Site or by the passage of time.
Nothing on the Site — and nothing arising from your use of it — creates any professional, advisory, fiduciary, or contractual relationship beyond your acceptance of these Terms.
The Operator reserves the right to modify, update, correct, remove, or discontinue any content or feature on the Site at any time and without prior notice. No specific version of any content is guaranteed to remain available.
The "Last updated" date on this page reflects when the Terms were last revised — not when every piece of site content was last reviewed or verified.
To be explicit:
If you came here believing the Site would protect you or make you anonymous — it will not. You are solely responsible for your own security and privacy posture.
The page at damned.wtf/infosec is a static, client-side cybersecurity education guide. The following clarifications apply specifically to that page:
The Operator sets a single strictly-necessary cookie, __Host-human_verified, after you pass the human-verification check. It holds only a signed, time-limited token so you are not re-prompted on every page, contains no personal data, and is never used for tracking, profiling, advertising, or analytics. The Operator sets no tracking pixels, beacons, or other persistent identifiers.
The Operator does not use localStorage, IndexedDB, or any other mechanism to store data about you between visits. Because the verification cookie is essential to providing the Site, no cookie consent banner is required for it under applicable law; no optional or non-essential cookies are set.
The Site does not itself provide an AI system or automated decision-making service. Where content has been substantially assisted by or generated with AI tools, the Operator may label it as such as a voluntary transparency measure; this is a best-effort commitment and does not create an enforceable obligation. The EU AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024 and is generally applicable from August 2, 2026, with exceptions. The Operator does not intend the Site to fall within AI Act obligations, but this statement does not limit any mandatory legal obligations that may apply if the Site's functionality or legal status changes.
The Site itself does not use machine learning, make predictions about individuals, or constitute automated decision-making with any legal or significant effect.
The Operator is not responsible for any AI-generated output you may produce using information or techniques described on the Site.