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These things have always intimidated me and I'd love to know more.
> Eligibility: The Contest is open to individuals who are (1) over the age of eighteen (18) at the time of entry; (2) not a resident of Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, or Crimea; [1] Why Quebec is banned? https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/events/ctf/#!?detail-...
Better question: why is under-18 banned?
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This aspect could be the real hurdle: "Pay a fee of up to 10% of the sweepstakes' value, depending on who is allowed to enter." So they would need to pay Quebec $3K just to have the competition available there, even if it is a global competition. It sounds to me that Quebec have got to have some reason for these Quebec special laws. It has nothing to do with France, there has to be another reason. Does anyone have an…
Almost everything in Canada, every ad, promotion, service has some kind of special section for Quebec. They insist on having completely different laws for every little thing. From a companies POV, its probably as legally onerous as operating in a different country altogether - not worth it.
For an American firm especially, it's just a odd little place with everything in a different language, it's just not worth the hassle for lawyers and risk, so they just skip it.
> A: Enable 3rd party cookies.
Come on Google, why do you require third party cookies for a competition amongst the most privacy conscience people on the planet?
Does someone do in-depth posts/videos/talks about any of these (Google or FB) CTF challenges by breaking up what is happening, what, why and how they tried per challenege and how did they finally come to the solution step-by-step? These things have always intimidated me and I'd love to know more.
I notice they're continuing the proud silicon valley start-up tradition of building a website that doesn't actually tell you what Google CTF is :P Even when I click on the beginner's quest, I've got paths, flags, endings, challenges... ...but nothing to tell me what the hell the thing actually IS!
It’s in the link at the bottom of the “What is the Google CTF?” section.
All Google would have to do is move the sentence "they consist of a set of computer security puzzles (or challenges) involving reverse-engineering, memory corruption, cryptography, web technologies, and more" from the secondary page into the paragraph that's supposed to answer the question. It would actually be shorter.
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From a 2011 Globe and Mail article: > Ever notice that Canadian contests keep barring the poor residents of Quebec from entering? It's not that contests are illegal in Quebec – it's just that the government makes it especially difficult to run one. > For one thing, contest runners have to pay tax on the value of the prize. For another thing, contests with prizes over $2,000 have to register their rules with a governm…
Yeah that's a good way to make everyone just skip your whole province. Just like how all the big headquarter offices moved to Toronto from Montreal in the 1970s, Quebec keeps shooting themselves in the foot. This chart shows everything you need to know: http://www.newgeography.com/files/cox-toronto-evolve-1.png By all means they should be the dominant city in Canada instead of Toronto, or at least equal. But they are…
[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/a...
> Q: I got an error: PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied. > A: Try picking a different team name, the team name you inserted is already taken. A: How to tell your software was built by security people.
Would not be surprised if this strange FAQ is part of the puzzle
I'm getting all introspective and seriously struggling trying to figure out why I have such a viscerally negative reaction to this. Like not just bafflement or indifference or boredom, I actively hate it. Can't really explain it. But it's apparent that I'm not their target demographic.
I notice they're continuing the proud silicon valley start-up tradition of building a website that doesn't actually tell you what Google CTF is :P Even when I click on the beginner's quest, I've got paths, flags, endings, challenges... ...but nothing to tell me what the hell the thing actually IS!
It’s in the link at the bottom of the “What is the Google CTF?” section.
Now on the one hand I'd say, ok, its not google's responsibility to try to have websites/non-standard browser configs set ups actually work with their web pages...
On the other hand, I'm sure the kind of security people google is looking for all surf the web with standard browser configs and permissions enabled...
And as the other commenter has pointed out, I know its radical of me, but I would have thought the "What is the google CTF" section should contain text which answers "What is the google CTF".
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Would not be surprised if this strange FAQ is part of the puzzle
The stated prize amount spells ELEET, so that might support your theory. Although it also supports the theory that there's no prize money whatsoever. I'm getting all introspective and seriously struggling trying to figure out why I have such a viscerally negative reaction to this. Like not just bafflement or indifference or boredom, I actively hate it. Can't really explain it. But it's apparent that I'm not their tar…
Prize amounts for CTFs are frequently variations of “leet”; I see nothing strange with this.