ELI5 please. why should I care about this.
Yeah had the same reaction. It takes some background to get what they are taking about.
Red Team: A team that try to exploit an organisation to find weakness before black hackers find them. [1] Blue Team: A team that tries to protect the org from the red team and fix the exploits. [2] SIEM: Security Information and Event Management. Usually used by Blue teams. [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_team_(computer_security) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event...
PS: search skills are really important these days.
The page is written with the philosophy: if you don't know what all these terms are, you don't belong here. Which is fine for a random Github repo.
I'd be curious to know about HN's sorting algorithms, this topic seems such a niche thing that I'm amazed this page reached #1...
It's also fine for a page meant for a specific audience. It's not like they want to attract random developers working outside security.
Whenever someone says something akin to "Hey that project's page didn't explain/market their offering well enough for me!", an obvious counter question is "and who said their intention was to promote it to you?".
Sometimes the complain is legitimate (e.g. a programming language or project that wants wide adoption should explain what it is clearly and attractively in its webpage). Other times it's just that not everybody is the intended audience, and they explain what they do well already if you're the intended audience (in which case you know the terms the use, etc).
>I'd be curious to know about HN's sorting algorithms, this topic seems such a niche thing that I'm amazed this page reached #1...
Perhaps enough people know about this stuff already and voted it as soon as they saw it? I didn't know what Red/Blue teams are, but there are several security people here that do.
Then I realized it was just a random GH repo and some sort of security tools software. And even then, was full of its own jargon -- blue team / red team / white team. So I could only ask wtf is this even doing here. Like how does this particular security software impact my life as a generalist software developer, or even if I was just some random technologist person.
Since you work in the tech industry, you should be aware that Google exists and you can very quickly find out what a SIEM is (if you don't do log management you should look into it) and what a red team is (if you don't do security audits you should look into it) and hey, now you know what the subject is.
From HN FAQ: The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted.
On top of that "hacker" doesn't come from the popular term, it comes from: http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html
Sounds like exactly the tool for your kind! ;)