Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 Wargame
- April 3rd, 2010
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--[ Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 Wargame ]--
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We are very pleased to invite you to our custom Hackito Ergo Sum wargame !
--[ Synopsis:
Steven and our friends from overthewire.org cooked us up some brain
challenge candies specially for HES : thank you very much guys 
--[ Goal:
The goal of the wargame is simple: you have to get a shell (as far as we
know this is still very legal in France as of April 2010 - because we
grant you the permission to do so) on a computer, and then escalate
privileges until you get root on a computer dedicated for this purpose
on our lan. Only it has been set especially for this purpose by one of
the coolest wargame community
--[ Rules:
- be creative.
- be creative.
- be creative.
- the Wargame will be hosted on our lan.
- the contest to be the first one to root the box starts with the
beginning of the conference. Challenge your skills and knowledge !
--[ More informations:
Potential intruders will be updated with information on
http://hackitoergosum.org regarding how to get access to the wargame
with the opening of the conference on April 8 
--[ irc channel:
/server -ssl irc.overthewire.org
/join #hes
--[ Greetz:
Steven van Acker for making this happen !!
--[ Concluding:
We wish you best of fun,
Best regards,
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The HES Team
Are you kidding ?
Could you imagine people would “hack” with Microsoft ?
Am I missing something ?
Wargame ? isn’t it what people call in french “jeu de guerre”.
Qué es esa gente ?
For Microsoft, they are doing security research and as such have definitely something to do with the conference. At the /tmp/lab and Hackito Ergo Sum conference, we are quite against “churches”, little group who feel so good together that they don’t care looking outside
We prefer being open to other worlds, being versatile, being different each one from the other, that’s what we call “being rich”. Why isn’t this vision more shared? Don’t you see how much trouble and pain is created by unneeded, artificial boundaries and separations? Let’s not do that on the Internet 
Wargame is a bit like a CTF (Capture The Flag) except you don’t need to guard your own infrastructure. It’s only the attack side.
For the “Ques es esa gente?”, first do you want us to be speaking french all the time? We make the effort to speak a language that most of the planet can easily learn, please do the same.
Now thanks to online translators, it seems to say “What are these people?”. Well, this is a bit pretentious isn’t it? Who are you? We’re just pulling off a conference with zero budget, getting sponsors to fund international speakers to come share interesting topics… Think about it.