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Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by virgilp »

umvi wrote: post #33
Hackbraten wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you narrow down the date exactly? The vacation is one week long so the date could be any working day, couldn’t it?

Well, apparently she has 2 kids? Ryan and Daniel (mug reveals "Daniel" with a crudely drawn baby). Then if you look at the calendar you can see Daniel was born June 12 and Ryan was born December 5, but beyond that I can't figure out a year. Username is "anne.kingston" but I've tried all the following passwords to no avail: - June12 - june12 - 612 - December5 - december5 - 125

format is Name1234

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by nottorp »

illuminated wrote: post #29
eloeffler2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which browser are you using? We had some problems with Firefox displaying SVG graphics a little differently but it appeared to be working now. You should be able to click many of the objects (e.g. the cup) to zoom in.

Latest Firefox on Mac... Will try with another browser. If you need any help in tracing the issue, I'll send you the console output.

Yep, clicking is iffy on Firefox/Mac here too.

Nice work, but as an old gamer I'm wondering if throwing the graphics in some established game engine wouldn't have made it work more consistently :)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by yodelshady »

I quite enjoyed it, and think it's worthwhile.

Suggestions:

-The targets for mouse clicks are definitely too small (you've heard that already). Could also do something like clicking whilst zoomed in to zoom back out, or just standardising the buttons to +/-.

-Add a way to get all the way back to the preamble, and a writeable notepad of some description.

-Tighten up the initial login validation - I found plausible passwords that neither passed nor failed, if that makes sense. (DM me for details, or I can write up here if you like.)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by virgilp »

illuminated wrote: post #43

A000-0000-0000... not sure what to do with it :) If it's indeed the end, nice game! edit: although, I still haven't found the Anne's location

It does say "here you will be able to find Anne's location", I'm just saying author got lazy and didn't actually post something about the location?

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by Serious_Cheese »

I got frustrated trying out different passwords, so I looked at the source code.

The username is "anne.kingston". I found the password hash, but not sure how to go back to get the password itself.

Password hash: (hashy == "3880" && saltedhashy == "2425")

The hash is computed in a loop as: `prehash += (s[i].charCodeAt() * (i+1));`

I'm not sure how to go reverse this. Maybe someone can help?

Here's a tuple of passwords tried and their hash and salthash:

(Password, Hash, Salthash)

(daniel, 8221, 2197)

(hello, 7004, 3970)

(password, 3970, 1268)

(123, 302, 4415)

(something, 4814, 2749)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by gpderetta »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #17
eloeffler wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

the calendar never zoomed for me. I had to squint to read the names and dates.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by illuminated »

nottorp wrote: post #44
illuminated wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Latest Firefox on Mac... Will try with another browser. If you need any help in tracing the issue, I'll send you the console output.

Yep, clicking is iffy on Firefox/Mac here too. Nice work, but as an old gamer I'm wondering if throwing the graphics in some established game engine wouldn't have made it work more consistently :)

I kind of enjoy the graphics... Makes the focus to be shifted on the actual gameplay. You care about the process of discovery more this way. At least that's how it worked for me, but I'm not a regular game player person.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by illuminated »

virgilp wrote: post #46
illuminated wrote: post #43

A000-0000-0000... not sure what to do with it :) If it's indeed the end, nice game! edit: although, I still haven't found the Anne's location

It does say "here you will be able to find Anne's location", I'm just saying author got lazy and didn't actually post something about the location?

Well, at the moment I got the "winning code" notification, I still didn't know her location.
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