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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoBlocking someone from a hacking game because they tried to hack it is basically admitting defeat.
minus-squaresuction@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoGetting caught means the hacker won? Are you a r?
minus-squareBluesF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s called hackthebox not hackoutofthebox
minus-squaretourist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIs this like getting banned from an escape room because you brought (and used) a live grenade to solve the puzzle (I think they have a strict no-grenades-from-home policy, usually)
minus-squareCornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoIf a real world pentester tries to hack something out of scope, they also get banned. From society. To a prison cell.
minus-squarezalgotext@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoNah, hackthebox and many other red team simulation type sites have strict rules of engagement. You’re there to solve a puzzle as defined by hackthebox, not get around the puzzle by hacking hackthebox.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoThat’s not very “Kobayashi Maru” of them.
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI mean that just means you didn’t hack them well enough.
Blocking someone from a hacking game because they tried to hack it is basically admitting defeat.
Getting caught means the hacker won? Are you a r?
It’s called hackthebox not hackoutofthebox
Is this like getting banned from an escape room because you brought (and used) a live grenade to solve the puzzle
(I think they have a strict no-grenades-from-home policy, usually)
If a real world pentester tries to hack something out of scope, they also get banned. From society. To a prison cell.
Nah, hackthebox and many other red team simulation type sites have strict rules of engagement. You’re there to solve a puzzle as defined by hackthebox, not get around the puzzle by hacking hackthebox.
That’s not very “Kobayashi Maru” of them.
I mean that just means you didn’t hack them well enough.