Yes! Blogging about your OffSec journey is a great way to contribute to the cybersecurity community, inspire other learners, and share what you've learned.

We encourage you to talk about your overall experience, but please do not publish scripts, solutions, walkthroughs, flags, or proprietary content from OffSec labs. Sharing this information could allow other learners to bypass the research and problem-solving that are an important part of the learning experience.

• Share Your Learning Journey: Talk about your experiences, challenges, breakthroughs, and lessons learned throughout the course. Your story can motivate other learners without revealing specific solutions.
• Discuss General Techniques: Share high-level approaches, methodologies, tools, or frameworks you found useful without explaining how to solve a specific OffSec lab or challenge.
• Use Hypothetical Examples: When explaining a concept or technique, use hypothetical or sanitized examples that are not taken directly from OffSec labs. Clearly identify them as such.
• Encourage Ethical Behavior: Reinforce that the skills learned through OffSec courses should be used legally, responsibly, and ethically.
• Follow Academic Integrity: Give proper attribution when quoting, referencing, or paraphrasing someone else's work, including blog posts, documentation, or forum discussions.
• Share Your Achievements: Earned a certification or badge? You're welcome to showcase your Accredible badges, digital certificates, and Skills Passport cards on your blog or social profiles. For more information, see Can I post badges on external websites?

• Don't Share Solutions or Spoilers: Avoid publishing walkthroughs, scripts, commands, answers, flags, or other information that reveals how to complete a specific OffSec lab or challenge.
• Don't Share or Redistribute Unofficial Solutions: Solutions obtained from forums, groups, repositories, or other unofficial sources should not be republished or distributed.
• Don't Disregard OffSec Guidelines: Make sure anything you publish complies with OffSec's Academic Policy and other applicable guidelines. Violations may be subject to action under OffSec's policies.

📸 Screenshots & Images

Please do not publish screenshots or images from OffSec labs, as they may contain proprietary information.

You may, however, share screenshots that show your general learning progress or achievements without revealing lab content.

✅ Allowed:
A screenshot of your course completion percentage, XP progress, Accredible badge, digital certificate, or Skills Passport card.

❌ Not Allowed:
Screenshots of lab environments, specific challenges, flag captures, solutions, or other proprietary lab content.

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Looking for more information about what you can and can't share? Check out:

• Am I allowed to do what I want with my course materials?
• Can I post badges on external websites?
• Academic Policy

If you're unsure whether your blog post contains information that can be shared publicly, we're happy to review it before you publish. Please send an email to "challenges AT offsec DOT com".