HackMIT Puzzle Guide

Re:HackMIT Puzzle Guide by chrisBob on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @08:45AM (#8101912)

In part 1 you need the sound turned on to solve the puzzle. I don't think I could have ever gotten farther than that on my own. Even at home I keep the sound turned off on my computer unless there is something I specifically want to listen to.

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Re:HackMIT Puzzle Guide by conorh on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @09:43AM (#8102148)

If you look at the network requests when the page loads you can see a good hint that something is going on, 'dialuptone.mp3' is requested from the server (and there are DOM <audio> nodes to play it). I guess if they had wanted to be sneaky they would have generated the sound with the Web Audio API [1], but I'm not sure what browser support is like for that yet.

[1] http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/

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Re:HackMIT Puzzle Guide by 0h139 on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:24PM (#8103096)

The other thing was that if you downloaded the sound file and looked at the metadata, the author's name had that same phone number.

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