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My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

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My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

FromCYBER

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Aug 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This is Ophir Harpaz, a security researcher at Guardicore. Her first hack was to reverse engineer the classic Windows game Minesweeper. Her goal was to force the program to put flags on all squares with mines—as soon as the board shows up. That essentially makes it incredibly easy to beat the game. That exercise changed her life.
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Released:
Aug 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity.