Looks like it's Google's recruiting for Python devs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080
More like javascript/web-developer recruiting. The page-source doesn't contain anything other than html/css/js.
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#22I searched for "foobar login" in the search box and the first result was login to Hackerrank.com for Foobar contest. But it says the contest has ended.
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#23I'm guessing in order to successfully log-in, you've to trigger yourself as someone who's eligible? Otherwise, it looks like everyone else is wondering how to make it work.
That sounds right, which implies that you have to be logged in to a google account and searching interesting terms to them. They'll redirect you to that and you can carry on.
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#24It seems if you have searched something which Google has interest in, you would be allowed to login. Below code on page points towards this: var g=document.getElementById("g");g.src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search
window.location.search returns the query string part of the current URL.
All that bit of code is doing is ensuring the frame on the page gets passed the query string the outer page had.
E.g. https://www.google.com/foobar/?hello -> https://foobar.withgoogle.com/?hello
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#25In the name of the file /staticfiles/css/rhgame.e6cf5ce7.css, that RH is probably HR (Human Resources Game).
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#26If you've successfully logged in somehow, please share.
I don't want to share my google information with this app.
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#27Could this have to do with Googles ARG Endgame[1]? It seems just cryptic enough to fit the bill. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/7/6927605/welcome-to-endgame...
I'll go with this theory as well. Anyone have google glass and an augmented reality app from google? That login logo seems like an AR trigger waiting for someone to look at it the right way.
also found the rhgame reference in css...
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#28I would imagine, if this came out today, it's something related to the military. foo.bar == FUBAR? Maybe?
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#29I am not sure that it's the normal kind of web puzzle.
The logins are being handled by an endpoint on AppEngine called 'ah'. Also this mysterious url: https://appengine.google.com/_ah/
Though there is definitely some semblance of it being a game, the iframe contains a reference to CSS file called rhgame.css.
There doesn't seem to be any avenue to log yourself in, by the looks of it they first send people to a registration URL of some description (probably a redirect from a specific set of search terms or something similar).
I am not really one for doing the kinds of puzzles where you just shoot in the dark for a while.. if there were actually clues/riddles hidden in the HTML/JS/CSS or similar then I would have alot more fun with it.
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#30I would imagine, if this came out today, it's something related to the military. foo.bar == FUBAR? Maybe?
foo, bar, and baz are commonly used placeholders for function and variable names in programming examples.