Rendered at 18:15:30 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Cloudflare Workers.
JohnMakin 18 minutes ago [-]
Cool, but needing to register via discord is going to be a no for some people.
rschachte 4 hours ago [-]
I was doing this on the side for fun and learned a lot.
I believe the professors that helped originate this idea were a group of hacker PhD students from UC Santa Barbara that moved over to Arizona State. Adam Doupe was my professor his first year and an absolutely stellar academic and teacher.
And you’re right very good memory! Zardus and I were first PhD students at UCSB then became professors at ASU, and at ASU kanak’s PhD dissertation was on pwn.college
tkruer 2 hours ago [-]
+1 on this. The courses I took with Adam Doupe were phenomenal and have molded me into the engineer I am today. Many thanks to the team behind pwn.college and pushing us students to think outside the box!
1 hours ago [-]
xavdid 10 hours ago [-]
Not sure if the devs are here, but please don't justify your text! It makes the lines all have huge spaces in the middle. It's much harder to read as a result.
adamdoupe 3 hours ago [-]
Man I said this years ago and was overruled. Many your comment will help convince them!
Groxx 9 hours ago [-]
Honestly I've just set up a user CSS sheet that forces left justify. It makes the internet more comfortable, and has practically no downsides / bad interactions, unlike many such overrides.
mnkyokyfrnd 6 hours ago [-]
rivers, contextual word splits, compound noun splits, awkward pauses, there is so many downsides to mindless text justification. Only editorialised and hand crafted justified text is nice. Everything else ends up forceful and ugly.
cubefox 5 hours ago [-]
Strange that online it fell out of favor, because text justification was the default for centuries. It's still around in most PDFs though, e.g. in research papers.
Georgelemental 4 hours ago [-]
When there was a person physically typesetting every line, the justification wasn't generally "mindless"
jonhohle 2 hours ago [-]
Is there a difference between the rules TeX uses and HTML renderers?
deathanatos 1 hours ago [-]
AIUI, yes, most browsers use greedy line breaking by default. E.g., FF does not do Knuth style[1].
This led to the CSS `text-wrap` property, and `text-wrap: pretty`[2], but pretty is not supported in FF yet, and the value `pretty` doesn't mandate Knuth's algorithm.
I suspect the print typesetting has largely been automatized for several decades.
cubefox 5 hours ago [-]
The text justification would look a lot better with CSS "hyphens: auto".
behringer 7 hours ago [-]
Don't listen to this. Justified text is much much easier to read.
kccqzy 5 hours ago [-]
When done properly (i.e. in LaTeX with microtype, with good line breaking algorithm and character expansion) justified text is easier to read. The web is not that.
zerotolerance 1 hours ago [-]
I learned a ton through similar exercises on cyberarmy.com back in like 2002. Looks like it is still online: https://www.ca-zeb.com
bitforger 12 hours ago [-]
reminds me of high school trying to beat hackthissite.org, OverTheWire, SmashTheStack
simpler times
adamdoupe 12 hours ago [-]
Used to use OverTheWire as assignments in class, it was a big inspiration for pwn.college
deaton 3 hours ago [-]
I was gonna say, at a glance it reminds me of Microcorruption CTF
solyin 10 hours ago [-]
Why so deferential about posting write-ups? I'd just have a rule that says don't post write-ups and posting a write-up will get you banned from future editions or something.
anilgulecha 9 hours ago [-]
Because giving a good reason is usually enough for most people to follow something. Not everything has to be a stick (which you can wield anyway).
torben-friis 8 hours ago [-]
Almost any kind of reason actually.
It's a science-backed result that doing so massively improves compliance, it's a trick usually taught in soft skills training (negotiation, etc).
Very cool project, reminds me of days playing with owasp webgoat
hollowonepl 10 hours ago [-]
yes, I know it for years, play with it when I have time. really cool.
this and telehack.com is nice entertainment
anonym29 6 hours ago [-]
Neat concept, but utterly disgusting that Discord is still used as a social platform. Matrix is much less odious.
wffurr 5 hours ago [-]
What's wrong with Discord?
thedellmonitor 5 hours ago [-]
Discord is the ultimate gatekeeper of information these days, and the company behind it cannot be trusted with its user data.
anonym29 3 hours ago [-]
Besides being a centralized, proprietary data harvesting operation that has slowly started selectively enforcing mandatory identity verification requirements, despite their previous identity verification provider already getting hacked and leaking 70,000 people's PII?
Nothing says "hacker culture" like voluntarily submitting your photo ID and a real-time facial scan to big brother so your de-anonymized communications can be permanently logged and used against you by the state as soon as a future administration decides you're a disfavored person.
enahs-sf 12 hours ago [-]
Cool idea.
nicechianti 12 hours ago [-]
[dead]
learningmore 13 hours ago [-]
“ You have entered the pwn.college DOJO, an education platform for learners to develop and practice core cybersecurity skills in a hands-on fashion. Entering, you receive your "white belt" , signifying the beginning of your hacker life.”
Vaushite 14 hours ago [-]
And yet, the highest scores on the scoreboard are 10, which happens to be the score you get by completing the tutorials for using pwn.college.
unsnap_biceps 13 hours ago [-]
each module has it's own scoreboard, so yes, the scoreboard for the tutorial module maxes out at the maximum score for the tutorial module.
anonymous908213 10 hours ago [-]
> the scoreboard for the tutorial module maxes out at the maximum score for the tutorial module
This is not a very hacker-like mindset!
unsnap_biceps 10 hours ago [-]
I would claim that if you can set a higher score, my statement would still stand, as you have modified the maximum limit!
9 hours ago [-]
schoen 10 hours ago [-]
"The first rule of tautology club is hack the planet"?
tropicalhunter 6 hours ago [-]
It's maybe should be called something else if this is the case, but don't they show the latest "high scores" or complete finishes of the latest users to complete the module? Might not be high score or at least overall, but do remember noticing that yet seeing my username when I went through this a little while back so felt like more of a misnomer rather than an oversight.
I believe the professors that helped originate this idea were a group of hacker PhD students from UC Santa Barbara that moved over to Arizona State. Adam Doupe was my professor his first year and an absolutely stellar academic and teacher.
Yep I think this list is pretty up to date on the folks involved: https://pwn.college/sensei
And you’re right very good memory! Zardus and I were first PhD students at UCSB then became professors at ASU, and at ASU kanak’s PhD dissertation was on pwn.college
This led to the CSS `text-wrap` property, and `text-wrap: pretty`[2], but pretty is not supported in FF yet, and the value `pretty` doesn't mandate Knuth's algorithm.
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
simpler times
It's a science-backed result that doing so massively improves compliance, it's a trick usually taught in soft skills training (negotiation, etc).
I first read this in Robert Cialdini's "Influence: Science and Practice" which is both entertaining and interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence:_Science_and_Practic...
pwn.college is the most fun I've had in cybersecurity probably ever. The community in discord is also very friendly and helpful.
this and telehack.com is nice entertainment
Nothing says "hacker culture" like voluntarily submitting your photo ID and a real-time facial scan to big brother so your de-anonymized communications can be permanently logged and used against you by the state as soon as a future administration decides you're a disfavored person.
This is not a very hacker-like mindset!