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General => Technoweenies => Topic started by: Ruski on March 17, 2005, 02:44:05 PM

Title: Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 17, 2005, 02:44:05 PM

Ever Played with this site?

http://www.hackquest.de/ (http://www.hackquest.de/)

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 17, 2005, 03:35:23 PM

Nope, but I'm checkin' it out now. Ever check out Uplink? Awesome game. Good for teaching people theory.

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 17, 2005, 03:41:57 PM

it's a little hokie, but it's fun.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ingo Monk on March 17, 2005, 10:39:05 PM

I have the full version of Uplink if anyone wants it ;)

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 18, 2005, 07:43:19 AM

LOL sure!

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 18, 2005, 08:21:11 AM

I'm really enjoying the javascript challanges on this site. I laugh myself silly every time I run into security that i've had to work with in real life.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

4 down...  6 to go...

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 18, 2005, 10:23:39 AM

Haven't gotten a change to work with any of it yet cause I'm really fraggin' busy through the end of next week. Hopefully after that though, by which time...

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 18, 2005, 12:40:18 PM

got it. who includes a # in their password? really!

-RuskiFace the Pirate

5 Down 5 to go

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 19, 2005, 08:14:59 PM

umm... most of the people I know...

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: ROOTless on March 20, 2005, 12:45:14 AM

I did, for a while, but the GUI-log in wouldn't accept it.
Which just goes to show how much I used the GUI during that time, eh?

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 20, 2005, 11:53:45 AM

two more to go.
This stuff would be more usefull if people actually encoded the passcodes into their frontpage.
LOL

the Proxy stuff is fun and usefull though!

(Proxymitron is 5W337 L3W7!)

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ingo Monk on March 20, 2005, 12:03:50 PM

I don't get it
Hacker's Quest > Ingo ?

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 21, 2005, 07:40:34 AM

Well, it's a basic 'test your hacking skill' turorial.
but, it's progressive, and has a forum, so if you don't know anything about hacking, and you are willing to put in a little work, you can actually learn some very usefull tricks.

i'd start with the Java Scripts. (it'll help if you have a decompiler other than notepad) from there, logic is pretty easy (although not very hacker related) internet is just down right fun, and when i finish thoes off, i think i'm going to go into cracking. (have to find another copy of visual studio 6)

the challanges get progressivly harder, so for example, on the first script page, you could view the source, and just look arround and find the line where is says 'If Passcode = "secretword" then Href=www.youwin.com' and then happily type in 'secretword' on the frontpage, and get the reward. (a simple code that you enter in to the registered database) if you compleate an entire section, you get a 'gem' thingie that says how great of a (fill in the blank) hacker you are. then you can expand your abilities to other areas. it's pretty pointless unless you are interested in codebreaking, but seeing as how I am, and how I've been doing most of this stuff anyways, it's fun to have an open forum for it. (and i've even picked up a new trick already!)
Proximatron is my new hero!
-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 21, 2005, 11:03:04 AM

I was really glad to see that some of the security sites that I'd been thrown to previously - packetstorm specifically - were listed there.

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 21, 2005, 11:42:22 AM

Yea, thease guys know what they are doing. pretty impressive realy.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

I also like their specific "no real hacking advice" policy that is the baine of most of thoes sites...

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 21, 2005, 08:02:27 PM

Aye. I've been looking for such a place for a while. It has been my position for quite a while that hacking is a useful, if not necessary skill in the computing world. While I've picked things up here and there - reading boards, learning things associated with but useful in other areas, implementing anti-hacking projects - I've made it a point not to cross the line while doing so. This seems like it will allow me a place to explore those skills without getting in trouble. W00t.

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 22, 2005, 07:31:56 AM

Ahh yes!
Hacker's Quest; blurring the line between destructive and constructive on the internet for years and years!

LOL

have you played with any of the challanges yet? what do you think?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: NeoPaladin on March 22, 2005, 09:42:53 AM

Nope, still busy. I could probably go through the first couple, but I'd eventually get stuck and distracted and not get my work done.

Paladin

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on March 22, 2005, 10:00:34 AM

Well, let me know when you do, it'll be interesting to see if you get stuck the same places that i did, or if i am just totally 'the sucks' LOL

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:Hacker's Quest
Post by: Ruski on February 01, 2006, 03:26:56 PM

This is a post to keep the General Fiction area full of nice old things to read.

-RF