POLICY

Ethical Use

Everything published on Hackers Manifest is intended for authorized security assessments, defensive research, and education. The techniques described work, which is exactly why their use requires permission.

Acceptable use

• Penetration tests and red-team engagements within a written, signed scope of work and rules of engagement.
• Authorized internal security testing of systems your organization owns and operates.
• Bug bounty research within the scope and rules published by the program owner.
• Personal lab use against virtual machines, deliberately vulnerable applications, and CTF infrastructure.
• Defensive research, detection engineering, blue/purple team exercises, and academic study.

Not acceptable

• Targeting systems, networks, accounts, or people without explicit written authorization.
• Using guides, tools, or payloads from this site to commit fraud, theft, harassment, extortion, stalking, or any other crime.
• Abusing the interactive tools to generate payloads aimed at production systems you do not own or have permission to test.
• Reposting content without attribution or repackaging it as a paid product.

Last reviewed: 2026-04-25.