Caution
TECHNICAL AUDIT NOTICE
This repository is a static archive preserved for forensic auditing and youth safeguarding oversight.
All technical liability, privacy inquiries, or complaints regarding these operations must be directed to Hack Club's leadership and engineering staff via the contact information on the Hack Club GitHub organization or on the official Hack Club website.
Important
LEGAL NOTICE & ARCHIVE PROTOCOL
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No Support of Content: The archiver does not support, endorse, or condone any viewpoints, ideologies, or organizational practices expressed, implied, or implemented within this repository.
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No Warranties: This archive is provided "as-is" for transparency and forensic purposes; no warranties of any kind are provided regarding the functionality, safety, or legality of the contained code.
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Non-Production Warning: The archiver strictly does not condone the use of this software in a production environment and/or with real-world user data. This code implements surveillance and profiling mechanisms that may violate international privacy standards and youth safeguarding regulations.
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Purpose of Archive: This repository is maintained strictly for security and privacy audits, legal documentation, historical archival, and forensic research using simulated/synthetic data. It serves as a public interest case study in the degradation of nonprofit transparency and as a technical reference for the ethical failures of centralized youth surveillance infrastructure.
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Non-Affiliation: The archiver (the owner of this fork) is not a contributor to this project, has no affiliation with the original authors (including but not limited to Hack Club employees/contractors on this repository, Hack Club, HCB, HCB employees/contractors on this repository, or the Hack Foundation), and assumes no responsibility for the function or deployment of this code.
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Trademark Notice: All third-party trademarks mentioned (including but not limited to Hack Club, HCB, and The Hack Foundation) are the property of their respective owners. The archiver claims no ownership rights over any third-party trademarks mentioned herein.
Note
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Original repo description (unchanged except to defang external resources, but links are preserved if you go into the README and look at the raw file):
Welcome to the HCB codebase!
HCB is an open source, safe, and easy-to-use fiscal sponsorship platform for hackathons, Hack Clubs, robotic teams and more. We use it to run our fiscal sponsorship program, we provide high schoolers with a 501(c)(3) status-backed restricted fund for their organization. Behind the scenes, HCB is a Ruby on Rails application (learn more by reading our documentation).
Please email hcb-security@hackclub.com to report the vulnerability. To learn more about bug bounties, visit https://security.hackclub.com
To run HCB in a development environment, follow the setup instructions in our documentation. We support development through Codespaces, Docker, and a native setup.
We are so excited for you to join the codebase! We have a getting started
documentation in the dev-docs folder.
All contributors are expected to follow the Hack Club Code of Conduct and Hack Club's contributing guidelines.
Join the #hcb-dev channel on the Hack Club Slack for support.
Happy hacking. ❤️