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”.
Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?
Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway.
ls -aland compare the sizes.
\cd ~When people don’t know normal things we learned in '92, I get worried.
Instead of acting like an asshole, teach us.
what does this change?
Bypasses aliases and uses the original command
The power cable would like to have a word.
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.They never guess the next move: Unplugs pc
Combat the minefield with a fork bomb. Ain’t no process surviving this engagement.
How can you prevent users from leaving a directory?
AFAIK, there’s no way to without modifying the system tools and shell.
Magic, I guess, 'cause nothing in the sceenshot would do it, unless the attacker had already replaced
catwith a trojan or something.How can you prevent a shutdown using a power key?
There’s an Emacs command to do that
C-x M-c M-minefield





