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Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#11

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You can narrow down the date exactly, but i can't be bothered to test every format so doesn't really help

Hint is here :) https://txt.fyi/-/20336/e86ca3bf/

Still didn't help me. I've seen both hints and seen the calendar, and after 6 attempts I had to give up, felt a bit frustrated. Maybe accept a range of different answers?

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#12

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You can narrow down the date exactly, but i can't be bothered to test every format so doesn't really help

Hint is here :) https://txt.fyi/-/20336/e86ca3bf/

I think you need to set a bar of solving the first puzzle a little lower so that we can get an idea of your methods. I too don't have time to sit here brute forcing a game by hand when it could be any capitalization,

and when I wrote this comment, something occurred to me about it and I tried it and got in. Rubber ducky ftw.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#13

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Hint is here :) https://txt.fyi/-/20336/e86ca3bf/

Still didn't help me. I've seen both hints and seen the calendar, and after 6 attempts I had to give up, felt a bit frustrated. Maybe accept a range of different answers?

What is it about the calendar? I’m playing on 1280 × 720 resolution, can’t see shit on the calendar nor zoom in.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#15

Ok, I’m giving up. Found the password reminder within minutes but didn’t manage to get the password right after 40 minutes of trying. The narrative allowed me to narrow it down to five possible birth dates and two possible birth years. After several hundred attempts, I haven’t been able to get it right. German date format, ISO date format, with century, without century, name prefixed, nothing prefixed. Feels frustrat…

Hi Hackbraten, maintainer here. Thanks for the feedback and sorry you didn't find the password! We're considering to add a uhs-hints.com-style guide in the future. Here's a hint with another hint included: https://txt.fyi/-/20336/e86ca3bf/

Thank you for your reply.

How would I be able to read the calendar? Is there a minimum resolution to play this game?

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#16
Hi, I'm the maintainer and put together the code for this first working prototype of the digital version of the game. Thanks already for your feedback!

I will gladly provide hints here if you get stuck :)

Many thanks also to atum47, whose FOS, Fake Operating System I've used for the game. You can find it here: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

We have developed the game at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Business, Institute for Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience. https://www.fhnw.ch/en/about-fhnw/schools/business/iwi/cyber...

The game is based on a student work that has been published here: Schneider, Bettina, and Trupti Zanwar. "CySecEscape–Escape Room Technique to Raise Cybersecurity Awareness in SMEs." https://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/files/foe/ed0010/FP/...

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#17

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You can narrow down the date exactly, but i can't be bothered to test every format so doesn't really help

Hint is here :) https://txt.fyi/-/20336/e86ca3bf/

The click action is bugged - I clicked the mug 5 times and it didn't do anything, 6th time it turned around

Also took me a while to figure out the calendar zoomed in because it didn't work the first few times

Is there a way of finding out the format in the game? I would never have tried that

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#18

Hi, I'm the maintainer and put together the code for this first working prototype of the digital version of the game. Thanks already for your feedback! I will gladly provide hints here if you get stuck :) Many thanks also to atum47, whose FOS, Fake Operating System I've used for the game. You can find it here: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos We have developed the game at the University of Applied Sciences and A…

great concept, the UX problems make this not fun

hope you get this ironed out

I think there are a lot of best practices that can be rehearsed in this format

Recently I had been thinking about how interesting it would be to have a movie or tv show where a protagonist is trying to guess someone's password and they encounter a password manager and give up, or the character tells them they use a password manager as if it was the most obvious thing to do. That would make more sense than sticky notes or seeing some hint in the room that reveals the password.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#19
It's pretty nice! I just wish there was a button to zoom out, this got me confused at first and I refreshed the browser thinking it was a glitch. The desk has a + button to zoom, surely you could leave it there at all time and add a - button next to it.

Otherwise, great job!

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#20

Hi, I'm the maintainer and put together the code for this first working prototype of the digital version of the game. Thanks already for your feedback! I will gladly provide hints here if you get stuck :) Many thanks also to atum47, whose FOS, Fake Operating System I've used for the game. You can find it here: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos We have developed the game at the University of Applied Sciences and A…

How one interacts with the game? I see the drawn room but clicking anything there (folder, basket, cup, etc.) does nothing at all...
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