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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by rottencupcakes on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:39PM (#3623052)
Maybe they should just publish a VM image.
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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by ab on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:02PM (#3623146)
Not a bad idea, but how do you keep people from peeking at the passwords with root access on their own VM?
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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by smountcastle on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @09:39PM (#3623554)
They are asking for code or a brief description of how you proceeded through the steps. If you're going to take the time to document the process (correctly) then it shouldn't matter that you have the root password. Presumably you'd get stuck at some point where you couldn't explain how you achieved the subsequent step.
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Re:Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag by Drbble on Thursday February 23, 2012 @07:29AM (#3624691)
How do you keep yourself from rifling through the deck to find the Aces when you play solitaire?
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