🎄🎅HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE🎅🎄
Source: YouTube · John Hammond · published Dec 24, 2024 · 1:57:09
The video is a live stream where the host attempts to complete the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2024, an annual cybersecurity-themed puzzle game 9:17. The host interacts with chat while navigating technical setup issues before diving into the game's prologue 0:11.
Key Takeaways:
• The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2024 has a "Snowmageddon" theme and is free to play at holidayhackchallenge.com 9:17
• The first challenge involves a "connections" word game similar to The New York Times version, where players group related cybersecurity terms 27:31
• The host attempts to "hack" the high score of 50,000 points using browser developer tools and JavaScript session storage manipulation 41:27
• After technical difficulties, the host successfully achieves the high score through JavaScript manipulation rather than completing the puzzle normally 59:31
The stream demonstrates both the holiday hack challenge and how technical skills can be applied to solve problems in unconventional ways, with the host emphasizing that this is just the beginning (prologue) of the larger challenge 1:00:26.
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[Music] just a sec just one moment okay just making sure we were live wanted to make sure uh-oh SL things are already going [Music] off all right cool I think we're in business I think we're cooking I was muted music too loud let me know let me know hi everyone goodness gracious thank you so much for coming to hang out doesn't sound like hacking music what are we playing sure hope it's hacking music oh slack is going off because of the it sees the YouTube stream and it's like oh goodness all right music a little bit loud cool cool cool cool cool tracking tracking Roger thank you happy Yeah Christmas Eve Eve holy crap goodness gracious it is wild to me that tomorrow is Christmas Eve um I don't know maybe time zones getting the way but um look we do not have a lot of time together today I th…