Re:Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a bette...
by gpa on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:05PM
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How does the game helps to get into computer security?
Re:Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a bette...
by jamal-kumar on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:44PM
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The goal of the game is hacking into a facility.
Re:Ask HN: Which programming games helped you become a bette...
by gpa on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:46PM
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Yes, I can see that it's realistic and fun by reading some of the user reviews, like this one:
> Wow, this was so much fun! I work as a DevOps engineer, studied computer science, and have 20 years of work experience. This game creates several virtual machines when starting, with real operating system on them, real web servers, databases, web applications, and shows you multiple ways of hacking around networks, linux, web, php, passwords, authentication, privilege escalation, SQL injection, and MySQL in general. Everything I did in this game came up during my career in work in some form, and I had to protect systems against attacks like this too.
...there were a few things I learned, for example `sudo -l`, I'm going to use that all the time from now on.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341450/Yolo_Space_Hacker...
I like it because now I have something gameified to recommend to people who want to break into computer security. It was REALLY easy for me as someone who's been mired in that world for a long time, though I'm probably going to buy the other missions to see if they pose more of a challenge.
Make sure to download the performance DLC. It runs in a VM but it's better off with virtualbox in my experience than the other options. Opt for compiled tools rather than old perl and python scripts if you want missions to go faster.