Terms of Use
Last updated: May 21, 2026
By accessing Derp.ca, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site.
Purpose
Derp.ca publishes educational and informational material about security research, malware analysis, threat infrastructure, and defensive threat intelligence. The content is intended to help defenders, researchers, students, and operators understand real threats and improve security.
No Offensive Use
You may not use this site or its content to compromise systems, deploy malware, evade detection, gain unauthorized access, harass others, steal data, operate botnets, run phishing campaigns, attack third-party infrastructure, or violate applicable law.
Any code snippets, indicators, hashes, domains, IP addresses, protocol details, malware behavior notes, screenshots, or tooling references are provided for defensive research, analysis, detection, response, and education. They are not permission to interact with, probe, exploit, or disrupt systems you do not own or have explicit authorization to test.
Security Research Content
Security research can involve dangerous material. Posts may discuss malware behavior, command-and-control infrastructure, exploit chains, persistence, credential theft, ransomware, loaders, and other harmful techniques. Treat all such material as potentially sensitive. Do not execute samples, commands, scripts, payloads, or URLs from the site unless you know exactly what you are doing and are working in a controlled, authorized environment.
Accuracy and Availability
We try to publish accurate research, but threat data changes quickly. Infrastructure can be sinkholed, reassigned, parked, taken down, or reused by unrelated parties. Detections, family names, vendor labels, timestamps, and technical conclusions may change as new evidence appears.
Content is provided as-is and as-available, with no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
No Professional Advice
Nothing on this site is legal advice, incident response advice, compliance advice, or a substitute for professional security judgment. You are responsible for how you use the information and for complying with laws, policies, contracts, and authorization boundaries that apply to you.
Third-Party Links and Data
The site may link to external reports, public sandboxes, code repositories, social posts, vendor writeups, datasets, and other third-party resources. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, availability, safety, privacy practices, or changes after publication.
Intellectual Property
Original Derp.ca writing, analysis, graphics, and site content belong to their authors unless otherwise stated. You may link to posts and quote short excerpts with attribution. Do not republish full articles or represent Derp.ca content as your own.
Corrections and Sensitive Issues
If you believe a post contains an error, exposes sensitive information, misidentifies infrastructure, or creates a safety issue, email kirk@derp.ca. Include the URL and enough detail to review the issue.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Derp.ca and its authors are not liable for any damages, losses, claims, or consequences arising from your access to the site, use of the content, reliance on the content, inability to access the site, or interaction with third-party resources linked from the site.
Changes
We may update these terms as the site changes. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the updated terms.