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Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by gpderetta »

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?

I suspect that you should be able to find the location from the Annie's bank transactions, but I don't know the account code (and ahem looking at the JS source, it seems that only the company account is implemented)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by illuminated »

gpderetta wrote: post #51
virgilp wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I suspect that you should be able to find the location from the Annie's bank transactions, but I don't know the account code (and ahem looking at the JS source, it seems that only the company account is implemented)

You can find all the info for logging in to the bank account, but I couldn't find a location information there (or I did not recognize it).

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by gpderetta »

illuminated wrote: post #52
gpderetta wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that you should be able to find the location from the Annie's bank transactions, but I don't know the account code (and ahem looking at the JS source, it seems that only the company account is implemented)

You can find all the info for logging in to the bank account, but I couldn't find a location information there (or I did not recognize it).

I did manage to log in to the company account and delete the standing order.

I couldn't find the account id for her bank account. Is it supposed to be there? I'll keep looking.

edit: the WIP message in the messaging system makes me think that you can't yet track the Annie.

Also, is it supposed to be so simple to find the account password?

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#54

Post by klmadfejno »

Vague spoiler warning I guess:

* I struggled to understand what was clickable. The little red thing on the table seemed important. I guess not.

* Please don't make passwords case sensitive in games like this

* The puzzle felt too tough without the hint you posted. I'm not sure how I was supposed to know the password format. I wasn't able to open the drawer until mistakenly thinking the win code was the solution to the drawer, which it sort of was. But I more or less guessed the name and date were the password. I likely wouldn't have gotten it for a long time unless you posted the format.

* The stuff on the computer felt a little too simple. It also implied there was more to the game after the win code but I think not?

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

#55

Post by arendtio »

GlenTheMachine wrote: post #42

I "won" but I still feel like I'm missing something. Where's Anne?

Ask Quidder:

> Aah! You've found an end of the prototype. This will be the place where you can figure out where Anne might be...

> However, if you haven't stopped the transactions yet, keep playing :)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by singold »

GlenTheMachine wrote: post #42

I "won" but I still feel like I'm missing something. Where's Anne?

"Aah! You've found an end of the prototype. This will be the place where you can figure out where Anne might be... However, if you haven't stopped the transactions yet, keep playing :)"

I wont tell where this is to avoid spoilers :)

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by arendtio »

eloeffler wrote: post #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 A…

I like it, but the format for the password was pretty frustrating.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by GlenTheMachine »

singold wrote: post #56
GlenTheMachine wrote: post #42

I "won" but I still feel like I'm missing something. Where's Anne?

"Aah! You've found an end of the prototype. This will be the place where you can figure out where Anne might be... However, if you haven't stopped the transactions yet, keep playing :)" I wont tell where this is to avoid spoilers :)

I found that too. It’s just that there is a lot of detail, eg in the emails etc, that don’t seem to contribute anything to the game, and then you hit this abrupt place where it says “this will tell you where Anne is”, but it doesn’t.

It feels like there should be some other thing to explore somewhere that makes sense of the emails and the cake and the odd tweets.

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by umvi »

Serious_Cheese wrote: post #47

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…

just brute force it. With a hash that small there's bound to be tonnes of collisions

Re: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Post by achairapart »

Hackbraten wrote: post #2

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…

I got it after many attempts but, I confess, by tinkering directly with the `cheapHasher` JS function in the console. With that in-game form? it could have taken ages to guess.
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