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Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

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Post by rtkwe »

silveira wrote: post #31

I tried 3 times on Firefox and it was always saying 4/5 correct. Then I tried on Chrome and I passed to the foobar terminal.

Odd what's FF version? It worked fine for me on v32.0.2.

edit: It might be this suggested by Kripke:

"kripke 0 minutes ago | link

FF33.1.1 (on Archlinux) is working fine here. In addition to NoScript, you probably need to disable any extension that forbids cross-domain cookies as the relevant cookies are registered for https://ig-game.appspot.com/ and not a raw IP."

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#42

Post by huhtenberg »

magnusg7 wrote: post #36
huhtenberg wrote: post #27

Doesn't work. Upon completing the crossword the page auto-submits the solution and gets "403 Forbidden" in response. Something got broken somewhere or someone has pulled the plug.

tried it out, still works. Try clearing cache and cookies and restart. Also use a mainstream browser

  >
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Content-Length: 0
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT
  Server: Google Frontend
  Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly
  X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1
Nope. Might be geo-locked or something.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#43

Post by [deleted] »

magnusg7 wrote: post #38
vnagpal wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

Wow! You clearly pay attention... I wonder if I would have noticed this. Thanks for sharing! Somehow, google must have to do with this, either google paying weinstein for displaying this or weinstein paying google for making this a social media booster.

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Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#44

Post by kripke »

vnagpal wrote: post #33
andrewryno wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The footer has links to Google. Unless Google is now doing movie marketing. This is also part of another game that was submitted a couple weeks ago which was a recruiting game for GOogle.

I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

It is also on the blackboard at the end (around 0:57), and possibly on some other places. Google "sponsoring" them in exchange of putting an IP address in their trailer is something I would absolutely see them do.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#45

Post by rtkwe »

vnagpal wrote: post #33
andrewryno wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The footer has links to Google. Unless Google is now doing movie marketing. This is also part of another game that was submitted a couple weeks ago which was a recruiting game for GOogle.

I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

Haha right as Turing says "Are you paying attention too." Pretty clever. I don't think this is purely a movie advert though. The Imitation Game relation explains how they expected people to get the non number base/regex clue.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

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Post by vnagpal »

magnusg7 wrote: post #38
vnagpal wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got to that site through this movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sX... if you look at the paper at 3 second mark you can see the address "146.148.62.204". But now i wonder if its somehow connected with google

Wow! You clearly pay attention... I wonder if I would have noticed this. Thanks for sharing! Somehow, google must have to do with this, either google paying weinstein for displaying this or weinstein paying google for making this a social media booster.

Well Benedict asked to pay close attention :D

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#48

Post by phaker »

huhtenberg wrote: post #42
magnusg7 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tried it out, still works. Try clearing cache and cookies and restart. Also use a mainstream browser

> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02 Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT Server: Google Frontend Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1 Nope. Might be geo-locked or something.

Look at the response body, the 403 i got had a nice html error message attached.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

#49

Post by arbitrage »

toothbrush wrote: post #32

Okay, that was an exercise in frustration. By the third timeout i was pretty confident i had the answers right, but nothing happened. :(

same. claimed i had errors, checked multiple times, did not work.

if this is a recruiting tool, they should make sure they code it properly. unless part of the game is to debug it ... but i do enough of that already at work, so screw it.

Re: Welcome, cryptanalyst

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Post by ankushio »

I completed this puzzle. It then takes you to the foobar puzzle which was posted a while ago. It has a series of challenges. After completing the first challenge, it says "Max active challenge count reached"
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