d0xed ist ein kooperatives Brettspiel, bei dem Hacker versuchen Informationen aus einem Netzwerk zu entführen. D0x3d ist Hacker-slang für das Veröffentlichen von -- meist belastender -- Information.
Beim monatlichen Salzburger Chaostreff am 1. Februar haben wir die frei erhältlichen (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA-3.0 Lizenz) Papierkarten mit viel Einsatz, Schere und Klebstoff zusammengebastelt -- und natürlich das Spiel ausgetestet.
Ziel des Spiel ist es, vier verschiedene Arten von Information von den Rechnern eines Netzwerkes zu sammeln (zu 'lo0ten') und unerkannt durch das Internet Gateway zu verschwinden. Dabei kooperieren bis zu vier Hacker mit spezifischen Fähigkeiten: es gibt etwa den Kryptografen, den War Driver, den Social Engineer, etc. Nach jedem Zug der Hacker versuchen die Admins des Netzwerks die kompromittierten Server zu patchen, und werden dabei immer achtsamer. Nur durch Einsatz von wertvollen 'zero-days' können die Angreifer ihre Präsenz verschleiern... Und was bedeutet eigentlich 'kompromittiert'?
Durch Ändern der Netzwerk-Topologie oder des anfänglichen Threat-Levels kann das Spiel schwieriger gestaltet werden und es ergeben sich immer wieder neue Konstellationen. Hat Spass gemacht!
PS: Selbstverständlich waren die Hacker bei beiden Testspielen erfolgreich, wenn auch nur knapp.
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Grocery shopping becomes interesting when the bottle recycling machine resets itself and displays its IP address...
Pressing the button for a receipt spits out approximately one meter of status and log information of the machine. I'd like to know what CheatLimit, StrictAnticheat and ReceiptOnCheat means 
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We just got two MaKey MaKey's;
watch the video
and see what it is!
In short, it's an USB HID mouse/keyboard device provided by an
Arduino Leonardo (vendor:product 0x2341:0x8036). The Makey Makey firmware detects closed switches on digital input pins using 50 mega ohms pullups.
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The classic graphics adventure game is playable under Linux with wine.
AGD Interactive has Windows executables of a remake version.
320x200 in-game screenshot
960x600 up-scaled and filtered capture (click to enlarge)
King's Quest I to III and Quest for Glory II are available.
I like it!
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I find it quite hard to work all time catch up with all the latest Linux games; and recently there seem to appear quite a few new...
Here are my personal favorite picks:
- Battle for Wesnoth: turn based strategy game with a fantasy theme, supports multiplayer
- Freeciv: turn-based strategy game inspired by Civilization; recently a online, browser-based version became also available, supports multiplayer
These games seem interesting as well but I can not recommend them yet since they are obviously not finished or I haven't played them enough
...
- Widelands: realtime strategy game modeled after Settlers; however, the AI mode is too weak and I haven't tried multiplayer yet
- 0 a.d.: realtime strategy game of ancient warfare
- Unknown Horizons: another realtime strategy game with an emphasis on economy and building; start with a settlement and improve by ship trading...
- Seven Kingdoms: sound interesting, but the Linux version is not there yet and only the game code is GPL, not the data files
As you might have guessed, I'm into the strategy genre...
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Krakow,
Kiev, Odessa, Riga, Sibiu
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Seen a lot...
Everything just worked, free wireless almost everywhere.
I found the train schedule information on travelchinaguide very useful; Tian Yuan Kui Hotel was really nice in Pingyao.
The great firewall of China blocked youtube,
facebook, twitter, but not ssh.
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