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23 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So I want to make clear just how trivial it was to find repeated cases of plagiarism in the EC-Council blogs. All it took was going to recent blogs, finding a few key terms in the content and then Googling for those terms. Literally that's it. #ECCPlagiarism

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With less than 30 minutes of work, I was able to easily locate the original works that were leveraged to craft two of their blogs. That time included verifying the content matched, taking screen shots, confirming the blog was cached at archive.org and posting

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the details.

So consider this as you hear @ECCOUNCIL claiming that they tried to prevent plagiarism. No more than 5-10 minutes of human effort per blog and they could have avoided this mess. One has to question, since they didn't, did they really even care?

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Their failure to identify such easily located cases suggests negligence. They had a duty to ensure content they published was original, they breached that duty. They took no care in attempting to fulfill that duty and they injured the parties they stole from.

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This cannot be swept under the rug or allowed to just cool off and disappear. It is time for our community to take back what is ours, demand accountability, and reparations for what they've taken from us.

/FIN

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So I really want @ECCouncil to understand the damage they've done (a thread):

1. People who proudly achieved certifications are now disavowing and not renewing those certifications because of the shady practices of the org that provided those certs. All that hard work, lost.
2. People who won awards from your org are now renouncing those awards because they don't want to be associated with the practices of a company like @ECCouncil. These were accomplishments they should be able to be proud of that you've ruined.
3. Organizations and universities who've built educational programs and partnerships are being forced to review and potentially change their entire approach because they can't count on the integrity of @ECCouncil's materials.
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OK my last tweet (ok a thread) on the whole EC-Council fiasco for the night. They've shut down their blog and someone already congratulated me.

Let me be clear, I am not happy and I am not celebrating. This is not a win. There are only losers here. EC-Council loses for

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the obvious reasons.

However, our community loses as well. This whole thing sows distrust between practitioners and all of the educational and certification orgs we place our trust in.

Content creators lose as we realize we have to take exceptional measures to protect

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Ultimately, I hate this whole thing. I hate that it has robbed us all of so much. I hate that the effort I put into helping EC-Council in April turned out to be a waste.

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