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I'd say less "a strategy" and more "an issue which we know we need to work on, eventually, but which is not crimping the funnel in such a way that it should be
by patio11 10y ago
I'd say less "a strategy" and more "an issue which we know we need to work on, eventually, but which is not crimping the funnel in such a way that it should be the #1 thing we have to care about right now."
Once we have a team of placement engineers hired and they're bugging me to send them more players who are interested in having career planning conversations, then I will prioritize making sure as many people as possible read one or two sentences of copy and slot Starfighter into their lives as a consequence of it. At the moment, though, lack of smart geeks to represent is not our problem.
For anybody in the audience who doesn't think our challenges are for you yet: no worries! There's an entire Internet of stuff you're not using right now. They'll be around (and hopefully improved) in 6 weeks, 6 months, or 6 years. No need to rush on any given Friday.
- WA 10y agoI think part of the confusion is because you call it CTF. I think Team Fortress when I hear CTF. I'd call it: Stockfighter is a programming challenge where you try to beat a virtual stock market by writing code. If you can solve all levels, we might even have a real job for you.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI like recommendation. I was thinking it was a territory or plant-something-on-a-PC game due to capture the flag reference.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I think part of the confusion is because you call it CTF. I think Team Fortress when I hear CTF. Yeah, CTF is a highly overloaded term, and while I gather its perfectly clear in the security space, its a lot less widely recognized, AFAICT, in the sense intended outside of that space.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI think outside of the security space it means there's a physical object you have to grab. Lay people imagining capturing things with flags planted might mentally connect to war movies where people fought over territory. So, I don't think this confusion comes from security community using it so much as it being used for something very different than it's usual meaning. Hack the Stock Market or HTM sounds more like exercises involving hacking the stock market than CTF does. Or maybe HTS... Hack the System.... exercises for if Starfighter has other types of scenarios. Yeah, there we go. The phrase even lay people associate with these things.
- eschutte2 10y ago"Hack the System" would be the perfect name for this. It's too bad that domain is taken.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIt has to be a domain? hts.starfighter.io startfighter.io/hts http://www.hackthesystem.io/ http://www.hackthesystem.io/