• tyler@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway. ls -al and compare the sizes.

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        1 month ago

        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

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          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.

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        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 cd is a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.