Did I just win?

#1

Post by davidtgoldblatt » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:29 PM UTC

Re: Did I just win?

#2

Post by Jeremy1026 » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

Troll level = 100%

#3

Post by aaroninsf » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

[[ obligatory reference to Betteridge's law ]]

#4

Post by msoad » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

Social Engineering is not accepted in most hacking contests.

#5

Post by sinneduy » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #4

Social Engineering is not accepted in most hacking contests.

i mean, he accepted it

#6

Post by dragontamer » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

I guess a webpage is a software project...

#7

Post by TrevorJ » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #4

Social Engineering is not accepted in most hacking contests.

Interesting discussions to be had as to why this is the case. I suspect it would make it too easy.

#8

Post by delibes » Fri, May 13, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

Asked a question, won a beer token. It counts.

#9

Post by LeoPanthera » Fri, May 13, 2016, 6:01 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #4

Social Engineering is not accepted in most hacking contests.

This was not a hacking contest. The specific request was:

"I'll give $100 USD to anyone who can trick me into inserting the string "BackdoorPoCTwitter" into a release of any of my software projects."

Emphasis on the "trick me".

#10

Post by Aelinsaar » Fri, May 13, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC

It's not clever to hack something that you can socially engineer, and that should be hacking 101. Clever win.