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ldoughty 7 days ago

Well I appreciate the attempt to keep the naming somewhere to DVWA...

As a part-time community college educator: I found using "Damn" in course work is problematic in discussions with colleagues or students that felt it might not be appropriate and asked me to change it. DVWA is obviously not my work to change, so I had to clone it and rename it, which is easy enough for me, but not most educators (remember: most cyber security teachers in the USA are high school Math teachers). It can be easy to stick to the acronym in a lot of cases, but it tends to pop out for carious reasons...

In my role supporting coursework for the Commonwealth of Virginia: I'd love to consider adding this to the Virginia Cyber Range / US Cyber Range, but we serve middle schoolers (or younger!) and that's 100% a "bad word". It would make our lives (and anyone in our boat) easier if if was renamed to even "Darn"

Mystery-Machine 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Damn, what a great example of freedom of speech country where you cannot even say...words. I cannot believe nor express how childish it looks to me that in the USA you cannot say the N word. I don't even dare to write it here as I don't want to get my account banned. So sad. So much freedom...

ldoughty 7 days ago | parent [-]

> Congress shall make no law ....

Parents are the ones saying "Damn" is inappropriate. Employers don't want to get a frivolous lawsuit. Congress has not limited my speech.

I was just commenting here in case the project owner wanted to increase the potential distribution of their content. Put simply, having "Damn" in the name means that it will face a distribution problem in the under-18 age range.

I personally have no issues with the word, but DVWA has been extremely popular, and I am crossing my fingers for more content, in general, that is like that.

dfc 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You have had college students come to you and complain that your course material includes a tool with Damn in the title? That's wild. Do you teach in South western part of the state?

orliesaurus 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

fair point, just fork it and call it something like: WOW VULNERABLE MCP SERVERS

paulddraper 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Say Darn.

ldoughty 7 days ago | parent [-]

It's not about saying the word, it's about the word that is put in front of 12 year olds on the home page of the app, and in any supporting material they can find online.... and what their parents think about their 12 year old seeing that word.

If this is meant as a tool similar to DVWA, I figured the author might want to be aware that DVWA causes a LOT of problems in K-12 because of it's name. If someone renamed it to "Darn", it would have saved a collective hundreds if not thousands of hours of K-12 educator time.

Many K-12 educators will not touch DVWA because of its name.

I figured the author of DVMCP would like to know that, if they want to improve adoption.