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Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by BorisMelnik » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

2J wrote: post #14

After you answer a question, there should be an explanation of the right answer. I was able to guess through some that I had no idea what they actually were, and an explanation of why I did/didn't get it right will help a lot and actually help me identify vulnerable code.

Same here, I was able to guess through an answer which was "resource injection" by finding code 'PATH INFO' just made sense.

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by troyjfarrell » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 1:54 AM UTC

fataliss wrote: post #7

A little coloration and indentation would be great. Going through a chunk of 20 lines of unknown language in a couple seconds is already enough of a challenge especially for beginners, no need to add unreadability to it :P.

Fixing the indentation would also make the Python code readable. (For those who aren't aware, whitespace is significant in Python.)

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by steele » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:13 AM UTC

Hmm, I saw duplicate questions in a single session.

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by EvanYou » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:13 AM UTC

Had to wonder if the "root" guy on the leaderboard actually hacked the game :)

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by pwelch » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

Cool game. Would be great if it gave a quick summary of why it was a right answer and maybe some additional resources to learn more.

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by com2kid » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 3:01 AM UTC

On beginner difficulty single player, I got the same question again and again. After the game ended, new game, still the same question.

IE11 FWIW.

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by granttimmerman » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 3:11 AM UTC

Here's how to hack the hacking game. Pretty simple (in your console):

app.sendAnswer({answer: 1,time: -999999999999})

(I added the instructions on the leaderboard itself)

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 3:22 AM UTC

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Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by olalonde » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 3:34 AM UTC

On a related note, anyone else remembers http://try2hack.nl/? It was one of the first sites that got me into programming/hacking.

Re: Game of Hacks

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Post by dmix » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 4:06 AM UTC

granttimmerman wrote: post #27

Here's how to hack the hacking game. Pretty simple (in your console): app.sendAnswer({answer: 1,time: -999999999999}) (I added the instructions on the leaderboard itself)

Crashing != hacking