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I 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
by WA 10y ago
I 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/