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Based on the responses in this thread, I feel like you could present this screenshot with a “I bet you couldn’t find your way out of this!” and a zip of the directory, and a significant number of users would voluntarily download it and extract it just to “prove that they could”.
Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?
Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway.
ls -aland compare the sizes.Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this
The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they’re just bluffing, might as well try
What if it encrypts the disk when entering the dir and the only way to decrypt it is by winning? Decryption keys will be provided via API at the end.
oh, and the endpoint key is on ram, to be lost forever after shutdown.
I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you
cdis a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.
\cd ~what does this change?
Bypasses aliases and uses the original command
Combat the minefield with a fork bomb. Ain’t no process surviving this engagement.
They never guess the next move: Unplugs pc
loud knocking on the door
Either that or the PC keeps running anyway.
Boston Dynamics: “Either that or the PC keeps running away.”
The power cable would like to have a word.
it removed your disc encryption keys and the only way to recover it is finding it in memory through the minefield
How can you prevent users from leaving a directory?
chroot, and override exit with an alias,could work
Magic, I guess, 'cause nothing in the sceenshot would do it, unless the attacker had already replaced
catwith a trojan or something.AFAIK, there’s no way to without modifying the system tools and shell.
How can you prevent a shutdown using a power key?
There’s an Emacs command to do that
C-x M-c M-minefieldYou could probably install a handler for the event that’s triggered when the power button is pressed. Most OSes do that and pop up a graceful shutdown options window. Most hardware will have a hard shutdown option when you hold the power button for a few seconds. You would probably have to overwrite the BIOS or something at that level to prevent that way out.
You could also just unplug it.
alt+sysrq+b bypasses this handler, also switching to another vt should just drop you in a normal shell it as well as long the login shell isn’t modified. There are a lot of ways that can be used to break out.
You can’t, lol. Think it’s just a joke
Encrypt hard drive and keep the key in RAM. Could be recovered with a cold boot attack but that’s very advanced. The DOS virus ONEHALF would run as a daemon encrypring a block on the drive on each boot and intercept reads/writes to the encrypted part as if nothing ever happened. Only after encrypting ½ of the disk, it would reveal itself with an ominous
Dis is one half. Press any key to continue...The decryption was eventually cracked by ESET and they developed a tool to recover the drive.
If you are using KDE
I can think of a way out:
Just throw the whole PC away. It’s someone else’s problem now!
But that just becomes a Jumanji issue
But it’s on a dedicated server you have already paid for, which also hosts your own Minecraft game server with active players (mission-critical process which can never be allowed to stop).
Reminds me of gameshell, which is a rogue-like game designed to teach you the unix shell. So instead of navigating with NESW, you
cdto locations. At one point you search the “garden”, which is an unmanageable tangle of directories, withfind.Cool! Will give this a try for sure! Always forget commands
There goes my night? Longer?
Reminder that binaries cannot change a shell’s working directory, so the non-mines will do nothing.
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cdis a shell builtin)Technically they could if run as root by modifying the parent process
it could just reinvoke
$SHELLin the parent dirGood point. Also it wouldn’t stop you from just opening another terminal window haha.
I mean, you can just write a whole custom shell for this
cat 1*a single cat is hurled unceremoniously through the window onto your lap*
I’ll hit them with an rm /etc. We go out, we go out together and on my terms.
while this is not real, something similar in principal very much was! (but not too widespread)
see here or look up “casino dos malware”
uh in short it erases “the disk’s” (unsure which) file allocation table (pretty much the dos/windows version of a superblock). apparently some versions did copy it to memory and give the user a chance though!
There also was Fake DOS back in the day
Maybe something like
find ./ -type f | xargs md5sum, then avoid the one directory where the executable has a different checksum. Heck, evenfind | lsmight suffice.This could be trivially defeated by a program which erases the hard drive unless run using a particular executable name. Then, all twenty entries could simply be hard links to the same executable file on disk, but one of the names would trigger different behavior.
So then you either cat the executable and hope it’s a shell script, you output the binary with a hex viewer and compare, you modify the executable so it’s in a lower permission group and thus wouldn’t have access to erase the drive, there’s like a hundred ways to solve this.
Has “let’s play a game” vibes
objdump -D * | less
