Note: BackTrack Linux does not condone or endorse the activity carried out by IBT. In addition, IBT has sent us a reply regarding this.
The following screenshots demonstrate that the Indonesian Backtrack Team (IBT) plagiarized an entire article from Corelan.be, stripping the original credit and putting their name to it (ironically, the Corelan disclaimer that specifies copyright and prohibits copying their material). In doing so, they removed almost all references to Peter Van Eeckhoutte (Corelan team lead who's name appears throughout the article), but missed one. This shows willful infringement of copyright and inexcusable plagiarism. For example, IBT copied the article, just changing out a name as needed:
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the content of this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, posted, broadcasted, or transmitted in any way without first obtaining written permission from Peter Van Eeckhoutte.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the content of this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, posted, broadcasted, or transmitted in any way without first obtaining written permission from Indonesian Backltrack Team [sic].
Original article:
http://www.corelan.be/index.php/terms-of-use/
Copied article:
http://www.indonesianbacktrack.or.id/?page_id=566
Originally, information on the page suggested the plagiarism was done by Zee Eichel. We were contacted by an admin of IBT who said that Eichel was not responsible, rather it was "Liyan Oz". When we updated the page, "Rizky Ariestiyansyah" (aka Liyan Oz aka Onto) contacted us saying he was not the one who did it, and not even part of IBT. We quickly determined that he was certainly a member of IBT at some point, had written tutorials on the site, and designed a t-shirt for IBT. Further, IBT sent a screenshot showing who drafted the post:
In addition, we are now publishing the email from Rizky/Liyan since it was proven to contain lies:
