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Re: Game of Hacks

#41
post #10

There's a big difference between having to select between four different kinds of vulnerabilities when given a piece of that you're told is insecure, and identifying them in the wild. This is more putting the square peg in the square hole than it is measuring the angles and being able to accurately identify the shape.

I had hoped from the description this would be more like the latter, with vulnerabilities you had to exploit to advance to the next level. As a format, multiple choice quizzes are not that interesting.

Re: Game of Hacks

#46
post #31

1. This is a vocabulary and syntax quiz, mostly. 2. The code is unreadable (formatting) on a phone after 1.5 Manhattans. 3. Anybody else read the title in Robert Pollard's voice?

I have no idea what most of those terms mean, no point in playing the quiz then

Re: Game of Hacks

#47
This was mostly an exercise in ready grey on grey unindented code. It's a nice idea, but you need to make sure you're measuring the right thing.

Re: Game of Hacks

#48
post #31

1. This is a vocabulary and syntax quiz, mostly. 2. The code is unreadable (formatting) on a phone after 1.5 Manhattans. 3. Anybody else read the title in Robert Pollard's voice?

> The code is unreadable (formatting) on a phone after 1.5 Manhattans.

I presume you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(cocktail) ?

Re: Game of Hacks

#50

The best part of this game is the leaderboard: 7e+177 - maplesyrupguy 1e+73 - Game itself was harder than to hack it 1.3999999999999998e+26 - I learned at least one thing... 1.555555682012021e+24 - Tries to teach security, fails at security. 1.4e+22 - jon 1e+22 - idiots 123456789212345710000 - Ironically it's easy to hack a game about finding security bugs! 100100000000000000000 - did i do 70000000000000130000 - alex…

Always been a huge fan of maplesyrupguy.
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