Hack.net

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:48 PM

So I went to a website called Hack.net on a whim. It is a picture of a bug. Woohoo! I figured, however, that there had to be more to the domain "Hack.net," than a bug -- so I examined the source -- which lead me to a semi-obscure link halfway down the page to a website called Ninebows.com -- which was equally obscure. It consists of several binary numbers. I guessed that they were ACII codes, and so I converted them. The final message was "pls get /two" -- what does this mean? It is obvious that this series is a puzzle, meant to weed out the idiots (namely, me) from the real hackers. Is this some higher force I'm meddling with? What does the message mean? Could it be unicode values?

choffstein

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choffstein

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:51 PM

get is an HTTP command. Try connecting with telnet to the sever and typing in "GET /two". /two is a directory of some sort.

Thats just my guess.

111

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:52 PM

If you go to /two on the same site, there is more text.

xanin

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:53 PM

my guess is goto:

here

111

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:54 PM

Quote:
Original post by xanin
my guess is goto:

here

Rofl...Note the name of the site and then go to /three.

xanin

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:54 PM

Quote:
Original post by tHiSiSbOb
Quote:
Original post by xanin
my guess is goto:

here

Rofl...Note the name of the site and then go to /three.

yeah, i saw that. it made me laugh

C-Junkie

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C-Junkie

Dec 4, 2004 at 6:55 PM

[lol]

The games people play.

aftermath

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:02 PM

27 26 30+3 11+1 15 22+1 23-1 23-1 22-2
What does that mean?

Author

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:04 PM

Stuck on /two -- figured that out a sec after post... Comes to "27 26 30+3 11+1 15 22+1 23-1 23-1 22-2" -- which, evaluated is 27, 26, 33, 12, 15, 23, 22, 22, 20. I'm not sure if thats it though. I tried showing the char code of the first number... gibberish. When it was converted from hex, gibberish too. Even for octal -- all the conversions are no good. I didn't think they'd do the same thing twice, anyway. Any ideas?

181

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:11 PM

Also, this is posted at ninebows

1110000 1101100 1110011 1000001100111 1100101 1110100 100000101111 1110100 1110111 1101111

???

Author

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:13 PM

Quote:
Original post by Vampyre_Dark
Also, this is posted at ninebows
1110000 1101100 1110011 1000001100111 1100101 1110100 100000101111 1110100 1110111 1101111
???

...
Read the first post?
Alas, what the greasy poo does "27 26 30+3 11+1 15 22+1 23-1 23-1 22-2" mean...

caffeineaddict

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caffeineaddict

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:14 PM

I figured that thing on /two was something with postfix evaluation, but i'm not sure.

edit: I don't think so, not enough operators for it to work out.

181

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:17 PM

Quote:
Original post by disease332000
Read the first post?

Oops [embarrass]. Yeah I read it. I wasn't paying close attention until after a few people posted, and by then I forgot about it. I was thinking you went from hack.net directly to the /two folder. [embarrass]

aftermath

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:20 PM

Perhaps its a password or sequence to open somthing? Port knocking access sequence?

Luctus

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:24 PM

I'm pretty sure it's not something on the same domain, 'cause I did a google search for pages on the same domain as ninebows.com and it only turned up three results (ninebows.com, /two & /three)

ranakor

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ranakor

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:29 PM

well google only links to page he finds & only finds page that are linked somewhere so if no one found the solution yet & there is no direct link on that website it's not on google (beside having it not be on google is as simple as asking for google not to add it in your page)

Author

Dec 4, 2004 at 7:29 PM

Quote:
Original post by aftermath
Perhaps its a password or sequence to open somthing? Port knocking access sequence?

This is a lot of fun...
I don't really know that much about networking (Into graphics, mehself, and by not much, I mean nothing at all) -- but I searched around and got a basic grasp of what port knocking is. But I still don't really understand it. How could "port knocking" be used to reach the next level of the enigmatic Hack.net?

Author