HackerQuest v0.97: quest room of the Nightmare difficulty level

“The revolution will be a game.” Gabe Zickermann



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Today I want to tell a little about my impressions after the hacker quest room play-test.
It is very difficult to overcome the aching feeling of nostalgia, when you see the DOS boot screen and hear the sounds of DOOM, but you need to concentrate and strain your convolutions. Because time is given an hour and you need to collect as many flags as possible.

According to the legend, your team (3-5 people) has 60 minutes before the police arrive, and you need to collect as many clues and clues as possible in the room of the disappeared hacker in order to understand where he went and why.

And then there is a dilemma, how to share interesting and not to spoil. I will try to walk around and about and tell you something, because it was interesting.

Here you can use a photo camera (if it helps), a smartphone and the Internet (if you can get around the jammer), and after completing the quest they drink it “nitrochem” (with liquid nitrogen) and dedicate it to cryobracy (they pour liquid nitrogen into their hands, the girls are delighted). I suggested making 2 cocktails for adults - “Overclocking” (whiskey with nitrogen) and “Superconductor” (nitrogen with whiskey).

There are a lot of old equipment (almost a museum), and I brought them a couple of stray devices from my collection (if you have something lying around - bring it) and several ideas for tasks (everyone has a dozen of such ideas in store), and also agreed that high school students can be brought to a lightweight version (or, on the contrary, to a complicated one, now such young people have gone) in order to teach them good and focus on IT (there is a big block about the history of cryptography and steganography with practice, well, a little social engineering). I was told that the main thing is that the adults should not be with them, because in the text of the tasks there is the word “ass”. (I asked if they had Swordfish hacking?)

What a cool thing that the quest makers managed to do so that the hardcore broke his head and the girls could laugh heartily (“don't care about your hardware, here’s an interesting box”).


Atmosphere

Lamp non-linear computer

One of the principles of the quest room is no props and decorations, only real devices.


60 kg of steel and lamps

UKSC

Download from tape? Come on...

Social engineering

Mitnick worth reading, will help a lot when passing

Cryptography ( )

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Telephony. Prank. Freaking

Good:



The first Moscow phone RePhone with Kickstarter `a .

DIY

Many have to do pens. Sometimes feminine.

Breaking into

Who can guess what the book in the background?



Vidos will help to complete one of the tasks.

Nitrogen. Liquid. Liters.

- Let's go for nitrogen?
- What, right now (time 23-45)?
- yeah

In the plans

Quest makers shared their plans and said that they were expecting a parcel of happiness from America:

PS

Photos from the play test quest.


PhysTech


MSU


HSE


Yandex

No girl in the beta test has suffered.

Bonus for high school students

If your gang wants to witness , and 14753301 Satoshi you are still at the nain, then you have the opportunity to sell into slavery to go through the quest for food , completing a couple of tasks for the benefit of the hacker culture.

“Hacking is not limited to the computer sphere. Wherever there is a system, there is the potential for its hacking. Using social hacks, you can steal billions (Medoff). And automation is a hack, and he didn’t make everyone happy (Luddites). New business is also always a hack. Entrepreneurs see the system as a set of rules, and are looking for how to get around them. Not everyone is inherent in this way of thinking. But they are the ones who move the world forward. ” Paul Buhayt, creator of Gmail and FriendFeed