Based on the responses in this thread, I feel like you could present this screenshot with a “I bet you couldn’t find your way out of this!” and a zip of the directory, and a significant number of users would voluntarily download it and extract it just to “prove that they could”.
The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they’re just bluffing, might as well try
I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you cd is a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.
Based on the responses in this thread, I feel like you could present this screenshot with a “I bet you couldn’t find your way out of this!” and a zip of the directory, and a significant number of users would voluntarily download it and extract it just to “prove that they could”.
Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?
Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway.
ls -aland compare the sizes.Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this
The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they’re just bluffing, might as well try
What if it encrypts the disk when entering the dir and the only way to decrypt it is by winning? Decryption keys will be provided via API at the end.
oh, and the endpoint key is on ram, to be lost forever after shutdown.
I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you
cdis a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.