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My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Aug 19, 2021
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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
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