FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

edit: Oct 2108, he was banned from GitHub (may not be permanent) - FYI: he also is on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/CHEF-KOCH

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🔵 PROOF 1: See second post re https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/Firefox-prefs.js-cleaner

See https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/29/automation-comes-to-the-ghacks-user-js-configuration-for-firefox/#comment-4325581

My reply if it gets published

#311 - the first PR by claustromaniac 18 days ago, and that was after a week of talking about it and sample scripts

fbd9f34 - v1.0 commit 15 days ago

CHEF-KOCH/Firefox-prefs.js-cleaner@1f77f54 - your version committed 14 days ago. Except for a few word changes such as the author, it's IDENTICAL

I call BS. This is not the first time you've been caught passing off other people's hard work as your own. Where is this reddit link that predates claustromaniac's work? I can show you the changes and discussions that claustromaniac and earthlng had and how the script changed to its final version. Yours is a single commit and IDENTICAL .. come on, where's your proof

CHEF-KOCH has not provided any proof to back up his denial

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 2: His ASN-blocking repo is a direct ripoff of ASN_IPFire_Script , and he has been called out on it, but refuses to acknowledge or do anything about it.

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 3: read this -> https://github.com/Lanchon/REPIT/blob/master/README-CHEF-KOCH.md and this -> Lanchon/REPIT#37 ( WebArchive ) where he STOLE Lanchon's REPIT and Flashize code: removed his (Lanchon's) name from it, removed the copyright notice, removed the GPL license, added himself as the author, and published it as his own work

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 4: He even copies other people's PAID work and livelihood. His blog entry about the show Legion is plagiarized from this original article written by a professional critic

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 5 his https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/BarbBlock-filter-list is direct rip off from the original at https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/ without attribution

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 6, 7, and 8: his modal filter list on day of list creation (Dec 2 2018) at commit 5ecf7ee on Dec 2, 2018 is 100% copied line-for-line from @yourduskquibbles 's modal filter list provided at commit 8d57b6b on Nov 30, 2018

@CHEF-KOCH's social filter list on day of list creation at commit 5ecf7ee on Dec 2, 2018 is 100% copied line-for-line (1670 lines) from my social filter list provided at commit 8d57b6b on Nov 30, 2018

@CHEF-KOCH's social filter list on day of list creation at commit 5ecf7ee on Dec 2, 2018 is 100% copied line-for-line (2025 lines) from my generic filter list provided at commit b5aa7d3 on Nov 30, 2018

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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🔵 PROOF 9

from @crazy-max : As this thread is a complete report on the actions of @CHEF-KOCH, I contribute to it with the violation of the license for my WindowsSpyBlocker repository.

The CKs-FilterList repository of CHEF-KOCH violates the MIT license of WindowsSpyBlocker repository : A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included.

https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/CKs-FilterList/blob/master/HOSTS/Windows%2010.txt

is a verbatim copy of :

https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/data/hosts/extra.txt
https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/data/hosts/update.txt

And here are the compare reports :

• Windows 10.txt / extra.txt
• Windows 10.txt / spy.txt
• Windows 10.txt / update.txt

end of message from crazy-max

❗ FACT: CHEF-KOCH plagiarizes and passes off other people's work as his own

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original post

https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/FFCK/blob/master/anti-ghacks%20user.js

I guess he can't read

e.g. he disables all cookies but suggest/recommed in their own wiki to use a cookie black/whitelist addon - why when Firefox can native do this via 'settings' - history - cookies [exceptions]?! The addon he suggest also lowers the security and you might run into possible addon fakes, besides this each addon rises memory consumptation.

• quote from user.js "You can set exceptions under site permissions or use an extension" - What part of OR does he not understand
• also, quote from wiki extensions "While we believe these are the very best of the best, this can be subjective depending on your needs. We are also not saying you have to use all these extensions."
• How does a cookie manager lower security? Our wiki points to a reputable well-known extension. If anything, the fact they are not auto-updated enhances this - see his next point
• running into possible addon fakes? huh? We can't make people use a particular extension, but by recommending some at least we're vetting it and linking to the real thing
• memory consumption? really? .. a few hundred kb's .. OMG .. the world is ending.

Disabling automatically addon-updates is also horrible, you lower your security point and not increase it because in fact 99% of all people never review addons or understanding the source code.

This is clearly worded in the user.js and the wiki implementation page. Users STILL get notifications. The whole point of not auto-installing them actually INCREASES security if done in a timely manner, as it allows vetting of changes - especially now AMO auto approves new releases. Users have the option to turn it back on .. because .. TEMPLATE

There are a lot of more examples but this guy does not know what he is doing or talking about....

Nice one. I'll just let the community decide for themselves. CHEF-KOCH has already been shown up to be a plagiarizing, hypocritical SoB with no verbal reasoning skills.

This example, the anti ghacks user.js .. contains 102 prefs for undoing the settings - apparently, to undo prefs with no "security" aspect. Fair enough, no one ever claimed the ghacks user.js is just about security.

Of these 102 prefs, he resets 93 of them. Of these 93, 22 are inactive in our user.js, and of the remaining 71, he even reuses the same values as us on a few. Of these 71 odd, some of the decisions are really whack. For someone who is always harping on about "SECURITY", he allows all the DRM (widevine, eme, cdm etc) which even the EFF says undermines security. And a lot of them have nothing to with "security"

Wot a f**king dork.

Class, discuss!

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

Oooh look .. https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/Firefox-prefs.js-cleaner - created 12 days ago

The project is created original by CHEF-KOCH under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

@earthlng .. doesn't that look VERY familiar

[claustromaniac]

..and here I was thinking I don't have a life.

Plagiarising batch scripts... that must be a new kind of low.

[claustromaniac]

LOL check out his profile:

I worked for @microsoft and @NVIDIA over 15 years.

Assuming that's true (not trying to imply that it doesn't have credibility or anything 🤣 ), we can easily guess why he's not working for them anymore.

[claustromaniac]

Thanks, Pants.

I don't really care too much about getting credit for the scripts. I just hate that kind of behaviour, like most people do, I guess.

[overdodactyl]

Yikes, that's pathetic 😬

If there's interest, I'd be happy to submit a DMCA takedown notice on your guys' behalf:

https://github.com/contact/dmca-notice

Edit: Part of the form requires the following:

Type (or copy and paste) the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

So I would need permission from Pants and/or @claustromaniac before I could do so :)

[crssi]

@Thorin-Oakenpants just add %20 instead of space in the link on the first post and it should work without needing to copy/paste. ;)

No doubt that the CH is a schmack with multiple personality disorder where he is calling himself as a "we". Like the saying: once I have been schizophrenic, but now we are OK. At least he has a lot of company. lol
Or the second one that is coming to my mind is: he is an attention bitch, but doing it wrong

I would tend to agree with IPv6... this shit should be disabled on the OS level anyway. The protocol which has integrated the MITM possibilities by default without even needing to do the ARP spoofing and hard to detect, is not a safe one.

@claustromaniac and @earthlng. really great job with the scripts you are making. As once already said, hats down to geniusly crafted one.

Cheers and happy new year

[earthlng]

LOL that's pretty pathetic. If it makes him feel good to take someone else' work and put his own name on it then so be it, I couldn't care less. Not worth my energy to get upset about it.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

FYI: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/29/automation-comes-to-the-ghacks-user-js-configuration-for-firefox/

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

^^ yeah sorry claustro and dactyl .. yur world famous now... you're gonna need a bigger tinfoil 😀 you've been marked and the NSA is sweeping all your traffic

[claustromaniac]

you've been marked and the NSA is sweeping all your traffic

LOL

I suspect I've been marked for a long time, considering they pretty much treat everyone using underwear as extremists. Remember: we're all guilty until proven innocent.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

wot? you use underwear? I thought everyone knew not to do that - exhibit a: my avatar

[claustromaniac]

Yup, I sometimes use underwear. Sorry to disappoint.

[overdodactyl]

No need to apologize! Pretty cool to get mentioned on the article :)

The additional NSA surveillance is worth it lol

[earthlng]

What a fucking pathetic troll! He's just pushing your buttons, Pants. Don't feed the trolls, guys.

[claustromaniac]

I concur. A waste of time and energy.

[shellshocker]

There are other projects he copied from. For example: ASN_IPFire_Script
He "forked" the project, renamed it and removed the original authors: ASN-blocking

How many more of "his" 73 repositories are just copies? We don't know...

This guy is truly a waste of time and energy.

[crssi]

More or less everything. One man just can't do so many projects and maintain them.
He is making damage to users, when someone is relying to stuff in his repository which is not maintaned then.
The guy should be reported to some github authorities, if such exists.
Other opinion and words I will not write here, due to inappropriate language.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

His BarbBlock filter list is just a copy of the real thing from https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/ and serves absolutely no purpose. He just copies the changes from paulgb's repo and thinks he's doing the world a service

His FFCK js commits often/mostly mirror ours:
Example 1:

• c83670f - I removed all the e10s stuff
• CHEF-KOCH/FFCK@fb93be6 - he removes all the e10s stuff, same day
• CHEF-KOCH/FFCK@86e3304 - and here he realizes he took out an item from the e10s section that we kept

Example 2:

• 14c1620 - here I came across a FF59 hidden pref (21 days ago) & 0da73d6 - here is the new crashReports (22 days ago)
• CHEF-KOCH/FFCK@d4d8e64 - and he copies it here, same day
• tons more but why waste my time

He's just watching what we do here and copying it all. Almost every single edit comes from here - the timing is very telling.

I personally don't think he has an original bone in his spineless body. It would not surprise me if the vast bulk of his repos are all copies. Totally pathetic.

[crssi]

Copyright claims (DMCA)?

[crssi]

Our "friend" latest "activity": https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/issues/34

[Forsaked]

He confuses privacy and security again.
The last comment of him made me giggle, he gonna "patch" DCE if it's implement fonts.

[claustromaniac]

its now 2 months exactly and still no FUD

Man... does time fly. I must be growing older.

He must be growing older too.

[claustromaniac]

At least the word is spreading a little...

[quantumpacket]

The legendary coder CHEF-KOCH endorsed me 😍 😍 !!!

I'm putting this on my resume right now:

What the experts are saying:

"Please hire him!"
--CHEF-KOCH

[Onfroygmx]

Just for the arguments of the dates, as there was a life before github (found this in my archives)
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/18/a-comprehensive-list-of-firefox-privacy-and-security-settings/

Onf.

[crssi]

Just quick fly over CK article revels a lot of inconsistencies, wrong facts, bullshits and lies... nothing new for CK... life goes on and he will stay ash** as usual.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

you can find more of him here - https://chef-koch.bearblog.dev/

look, he's reduced to blogging about his CanvasBlocker settings - https://chef-koch.bearblog.dev/firefox-hardened-canvasblocker-config/

• and by that I mean he copy pasted them and that was it 🤦‍♀️

look, here's his FF94 user.js .. 171 items, feel free to compare to the ALMIGHTY ARKENFOX

• https://chef-koch.bearblog.dev/firefox-hardening-user-configuration-clean-easy-and-simple/
• why is he still pushing deprecated prefs, useless prefs, and prefs at default values - I haven't even looked at it, these just jumped out, as just some examples
  • deprecated: plugin.default.state
  • useless: webgl.min_capability_mode and all the rest, he disabled webgl itself
  • default: webgl.disable-fail-if-major-performance-caveat, privacy.firstparty.isolate, ui.systemUsesDarkTheme

[KOLANICH]

useless: webgl.min_capability_mode and all the rest, he disabled webgl itself

TBH, I don't think this one is useless. Defence must be in-depth. If Mozilla introduced any code or bug causing WebGL being enabled despite the pref prescribing it to be disabled, min_capability_mode can reduce the damage.

[iam-py-test]

He's back to causing trouble and posting misleading data about adblockers, and people are listening & destroying their browsers

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

How fucking more cancer can one guy get?!

Someone alerted me to this - https://lemmy.ml/u/CHEFKOCH - BANNED

Going to reopen and pin for a while, for all our new star gazers (over 18 spartas now, that's 5.4k for you luddites) and increased daily unique viewers (> 1k) - it's important people know the truth

[CurlyGolf]

For those of you who don't feel like reading the "response" post, I will summarize it through my own lens. Yes I am biased.
tl;dr Blogpost = "Wow that's a lotta words, too bad I'm not readin em!"

The entire post is a real case of "blog it" and is over 17,000 words long. Who does he think is going to read his blog where he uses buzzwords with 0 actual claims backed by evidence? It is all bullshit and pivots on copyright issues immediately after claiming Thorin and other maintainers support "doxing", "cyberstalking", "cyberbullying", etc. There is no evidence to support these claims anywhere, even if you bother to scroll down to the "relevant" part of the post. The only thing of substance Koch can even generate is about avatar copyright infringement, and even then how does that affect him?

Here is just one example: Chef-Koch uses links in his blogpost because if someone makes a claim with a hyperlink on it, they must be providing evidence, right? Well, no. It just links to some definitions, and instead of providing quotes of this "smear campaign" by Arkenfox's maintainers, Koch decides to just explain it himself without references, or extrapolate the meaning of text so hard that not even a lawyer would wish to deal with it. They give generic links to discussion and issue history, yet not a single relevant issue or discussion apart from linking this issue was given. He is so full of himself to include an image showing how, in the acknowledgements section of this repo, that there is a hyperlink to someone at ghacks, and Koch states in the image "The link just points to ghacks.net. No proof. Claim without anything behind."

The amount of irony in the blogpost about "destroying fact checkers with facts" deserves a medal. You can not make this stuff up. This person needs serious help.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

FYI: nice to see other people coming to the same conclusion, that he doesn't know what he's talking about

[rusty-snake]

Well in the case of PrivacyGuides it is not surprising if you look how he call them:

This basically shows and displays that PrivacyGuides, I called them PrivacyClowns because it is more a circus directed by Clowns - is not credible nor do the any research at all when they propose or add new software to their list.

https://gitlab.com/CHEF-KOCH/brave-browser-hardening/-/issues/4

[dngray]

I find it amusing the took a poke at us with "You should not use the Tor tab in Brave", line. Brave literally admit this in their user docs, but of course we do no research 😆

That these clowns seriously suggest using Firefox on Android that lacks important stuff like isolation, webauthn, performance etc. Shows how uneducated and based they are.

He obviously can't read either, because Firefox is not listed under Android.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

found him ... just kidding , NFI who this is ... HAHAHAHA, LMFAO ... absolutely no sympathy from me, he brought it on himself. Apparently I have superpowers and closed down all his projects and accounts across multiple platforms. Also, so glad I ruined LW @fxbrit

Might be time to pin this back up for a while

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

also .. where are the donations? Please send me them, I'd like a new Porsche and some luxurious holidays abroad

How did I mismatch nightly patches? AF has nothing to do with nightly. How did I do 2 months of no patches - AF doesn't patch software, and pref flips are rare these days with almost no diff (I think it's 2 new prefs flips in the last 9 releases).

The mind boggles ...

Top. Tier. Schizo. Indeed.

Still glad I fucked up LW :)

[fxbrit]

I'd like a new Porsche

another one?

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

yup .. when you gotta flex, you gotta flex

[Svallinn]

This is one of those "issues" that will just never die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

hilarious - https://lemmy.eus/comment/45234

In case anyone cares, the reason I come across these things is by searching for arkenfox (in the last week) to see what people think or criticize or like etc, in order to get a full picture

[Svallinn]

This was genuinely painful to read...
Quite informative and unfortunate...

[jh-devv]

yup .. when you gotta flex, you gotta flex

You gotta get a pink one this time! 😏