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The power cable would like to have a word.
We have squid games at home.
Squid games at home:
objdump -D * | less
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
Has “let’s play a game” vibes
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)I mean, you can just write a whole custom shell for this
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.
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.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”.
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
Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?
I run QubesOS BTW. My entire computer is just a bunch of VMs in a trench coat.
Running Qubes as a daily driver is some serious level of privacy enthusiasm
They never guess the next move: Unplugs pc
loud knocking on the door
Either that or the PC keeps running anyway.
Boston Dynamics: “Ether that or the PC keeps running away.”
strings 1\cd ~what does this change?
Bypasses aliases and uses the original command
When people don’t know normal things we learned in '92, I get worried.
Combat the minefield with a fork bomb. Ain’t no process surviving this engagement.
cat 1I’ll hit them with an rm /etc. We go out, we go out together and on my terms.
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
