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02/17/2005: "Hacking hacking hacking goes the hackerman..."
Well, as a break from all the Rockstar-oriented posts, I got sidetracked into a bit of hacking. I came across a great website that tests your hacking skills. Great fun if you are a part-time hacker like I am. It is labelled as "Pretty simple" by the serious hackers, but it was good fun never the less. I am currently on challenge seven, having knocked off the first six pretty easily (although challenge 5 gave me some troubles). Give it a whirl, and let me know how you do...
Replies: 8 Comments
On Thursday, February 17th, at 15:05 PST, Chris Tann said:
Wheeeeeee! Level 15 already! 
This is fun! 
On Thursday, February 17th, at 15:57 PST, princess said:
I scored a 70% nerd on this test here...http://www.wxplotter.com/ft_nq.php?im but I am super uber goober jealous that my "hacking" skills involve getting one of my friends to do it for me. A skill in istself (it's who you know), but I'd love to learn the dark art. The highest form of hacking is getting my flippin laptop to boot on occasion ( no small feat, or feet) but alas...give me logic puzzles instead nd I may be more sucessful.
On Thursday, February 17th, at 16:05 PST, Chris Tann said:
79% for me - little do they know. Now, off to play the mid-level hacking games by hacking my registry... 
On Thursday, February 17th, at 18:43 PST, Chris Tann said:
Now I'm really pleased with myself
I got their two moderate tests, the first one was really hard, and I had to look at the hints. The second one was a simple numeric sequence to decode:
71 111 116 45 73 116 45 54 49 52
Something just looked familiar about it, and after about half an hour (and some help from Excel), I cracked it! So, challenge is on for you crypto-types out there - anyone else care to try this game?
On Thursday, February 17th, at 19:12 PST, Le Rev Dr said:
Sir,
just logged in:
"Incorrect login or password."
si this the first challenge?
Rev
On Monday, February 21st, at 23:59 PST, Simon said:
Oooh. That was fun
I just finished off the moderate challenges. I also had a tad of trouble with Basic number 5. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why 'What the hell?' wasn't accepted 
Also, I think there was a problem with the console one...unless you weren't actually supposed to use the console at all.
I thought the moderate ones were extremely simple! The 1st one was easy. I'd done things like that when trying to trick a webserver into thinking I was a mobile phone to download data you weren't supposed to get off your phone once you got it. And the 2nd one was sooo obviously ASCII.
Now the hard ones...I have NO idea. I've tried a couple of things but no luck at all. Not even a clue. I have one more idea, but I think it's a bit far fetched...
How are you going with them?
On Tuesday, February 22nd, at 09:53 PST, Chris Tann said:
I got the console one - but now I don't remember how I figured it out! Maybe its a browser thing, I looked with my work computer (Citrix actually), and it doesn't look obvious, but from my laptop I think it was easy. Email me if you wanna hint...
I didn't get anywhere on the advanced ones yet either. Looks like that will take some work!
Now I guess we graduate onto the next site.
On Sunday, January 15th, at 11:31 PST, ViRoy said:
The console one is actually in plain text if you know where to look
