Solving the Darknet Riddle

Re:Solving the Darknet Riddle by joombaga on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:56PM (#39256148)

> The ‘get‘ word was chosen purposely and it referred to a http GET request.

This never would have occurred to me. What can one do for their brain to make this kind of lateral leap? Seems like it would be helpful in the debugging and comedy parts of my life.

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Re:Solving the Darknet Riddle by dj_mc_merlin on Sunday February 04, 2024 @08:32PM (#39256312)

It's probably experience in this case. Correlating clue texts and finding a common word that has an alternate meaning is not a new challenge in online riddles. And the author seems very aware of the usual tricks. Also not pictured: all the things he did try that were not the inteded meaning of the text.

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Re:Solving the Darknet Riddle by Gratuity1901 on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:06AM (#39257565)

I think this one is just about context. If you know about HTTP then it becomes clear, if that isn't on your mind it isn't. I have been following through a book on TLS and HTTPS so it is very on my mind.

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Re:Solving the Darknet Riddle by rambambram on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:16AM (#39259920)

This was the only obvious one to me. But I'm only a simple webdev, so that might explain it.

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