captcha the flag

[talon]

Breaking in is a relatively simple matter: his personal network has, as usual, far fewer protections than the corporate network, and what would've taken a team, a couple of six-figure exploits, and three months takes me just over twenty minutes. With a port scanner, three programs, and a nice zero-day that I got as a favor, I'm root on his network

Comments

[jexia]

I enjoyed this - The structure and voice was good.

[fodschwazzle]

This one really hooked me. The game is legitimate, the suspense and mystery feel real. It filled me with exactly the right amount of dread (which is a lot) for the genre and the time it took to reach the conclusion.

Absolutely fantastic.

[i_17bingo]

Other people are organized to the point that you have to go five folders deep before you see any files at all, and each folder only has one file in it.

Sounds like me.

What's the point in that?

To know where to find stuff. I don't go judging you. Sheesh.

Top wants to know if you checked the dump.

Well, shit. That's ominous.

I loved this good old-fashioned, William Gibson-esque tale of a cowboy hacker in over his head. The tone was perfect (cool, collected, and smug and gradually frightened, but still cool and collected), and the story was gripping.

[alycewilson]

A gripping story, and a perfect ending.

[crisp_sobriety]

You're so good at these thriller stories, it's amazing to me how you come up with them every week. The sense of dread with their inquiring emails was palpable!