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You can't talk about OTW without talking about smash the stack. The best part of all of these communities was the accompanying irc channels, which are mostly de
by beardedwizard 3y ago
You can't talk about OTW without talking about smash the stack. The best part of all of these communities was the accompanying irc channels, which are mostly dead now. Jduck, spender, many other known names hung out and you could really learn from the best if you could handle the abuse. The scene exists in kind of a zombie state now, the games are mostly up to date but ...
- lilboiluvr69 3y agoKnow of any modern communities with a similar spirit and ethos in the same scene?
- archgoon 3y agoThe ctf community is fairly active. Http://ctftime.org
- _def 3y ago> you could really learn from the best if you could handle the abuse Care to elaborate? I assume there was cliche rough tone and elitism going on, but I don't know
- beardedwizard 3y agoThe price for saying something ignorant was usually pretty high in the form of verbal abuse, and you had to be willing to cater to that elitist attitude in many cases. Infosec had, and continues to have a gate keeping problem. The strange thing to me is that the scene pretty much died, but these zombies live on, half alive but without a strong community talking about them. Btw not talking about spender or jduck here, just the scene overall.
- pooloo 3y agoThat was pretty much any IRC community
- psychphysic 3y agoThere were always elitist channels but they'd be invite only. The rest you could lurk in however much you wanted.
- stevehawk 3y agolol, been in #linux in the last.. say.. twenty years?
- beardedwizard 3y agoOr #c
- psychphysic 3y agoMaybe a few years ago. I don't recall there being any on topic conversation
- beardedwizard 3y agoFor sure, and still is in many cases. I'm used to it tbh, but the HN community has plenty of folks who don't understand and have no need to tolerate or adapt to that kind of stimulus.
- andai 3y ago>scene pretty much died Did they finally have kids?
- grayhatter 3y agoCommunity infosec does have an asshole problem, but not a gatekeeping problem. Every single infosec community I grew up in was more than willing to share knowledge and the only requirements were a willingness to learn and ask questions. And skin thick enough to tolerate rudeness if there was any disagreement. Unless I misunderstood what you meant by gatekeeping?
- beardedwizard 3y agoI regret to inform you these are exactly the same thing.
- 0xmarcin 3y agoThe fun was there until I got to the steganography challenge. I still avoid steganography during CTFs...