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Those things existed since at least 1997. CyberArmy had their own contests like this and they promoted people into "ranks"; the whole place had a cheesy forum/b
by mahmud 17y ago
Those things existed since at least 1997. CyberArmy had their own contests like this and they promoted people into "ranks"; the whole place had a cheesy forum/bbs feel to it and it didn't take long before someone decided to put them out of their misery and rm -rf'ed them out of existence .. including the game server.
Anybody who is anybody probably will not like the patronizing student/teacher role and he would certainly despise the sanbox; it might not just be your vmware image, but also your webhost, their colocated box, and every other box in that datacenter, and perhaps a few more wifis within an earshot from there -- all might be sent to the abyss of server hell, and your good name immortalized in a lulzful lamer log.
Do not invite the curiousity of bored people with something to prove. Do something else with your time, instead.
- rlm 17y agoAlthough I'd find it fun to have a sandbox, I have to agree with this. It's dangerous territory, and someone will think you need to be taken down for good.
- mahmud 17y agoDon't fear being rm'ed, fear "tutoring" people on hacking. Anyone who is even remotely affiliated with the scene knows how offensive that is. The lady who ran the Happy "Mostly Harmless" Hacking site recived death threats, not to mention volumes of scatalogical rape-fantasy "fan fic".
- bawr 17y agoI don't know - there was a site back then (died because of admins, not hackers) called, I think, Digital Evolution (dievo.org?) that hosted a lot of security-related games, covering web-based stuff like SQL injection and going on to shell-based games where your focus was to elevate your privileges, usually by exploiting a small program given to you - sometimes with the source, sometimes without it. And as far as I can remember, they never got "really" hacked. Damn, I miss that place. There were riddles, math games, sigh...
- mahmud 17y agoSure, why not, but he is probably nullifying a few TOSes and other service agreements. The reason we put inane disclaimers and "get off my lawn" type message in /etc/issue is to cover our asses. If anybody from his network/hosting provider sees this he will surely get his account yanked by them before the baddies.