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I Know This – Hack Jurassic Park’s Security System

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Re: I Know This – Hack Jurassic Park’s Security System

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I used to goof around on this at the place I worked, which had an SGI Indigo II with it install. Just goofed around with it, never actually "used" it in any meaningful way.

This is the application http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

I played with this too on a Personal Iris, and Indigo I owned back in the day. It was fun, but not very useful.

Re: I Know This – Hack Jurassic Park’s Security System

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"Fun fact : the filenames you’ll see in the game are lifted from your hard drive, and 8.3ified for formatting and retro-chic reasons!" So in order to play the game it will scan my whole hard drive? In my point of view this is unacceptable. But i like the idea and the look of the game. Maybe i give it a shot in a VM environment...

It's not the first game to feature doing this and you certainly wouldn't play these kind of games without knowing that this is happening (since that's the main gimmick of these games) so you can't really complain about their behaviour when it's been made quite clear beforehand. But if you really wanted to play this game without it viewing your porn collection / whatever, then you can always manage it with ACLs, chroo…

It might have been nice if someone had pregenerated a list of files from, say, a fresh BSD installation, and then randomly chose locations to put target files, and had that as an option (rather than using your own data).
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