Ben’s Blog

Been playing with some online programming and hacking fun. If you’re like me and can’t sleep at night because of an overactive mind, try some of these out:

• The Python Challenge – Pretty self-explanitory. Some puzzles that require a little bit of creative Python programming along with some outside-the-box thinking on solving problems. Can probably use other programming languages as well, but at some point I’m betting there’s some Python specific data-types (I just started a few last night so don’t know yet).
• HAXTOR (warning – JS will attempt to resize your browser window) – Various decrypting challenges and web-related stuff.
• hackergames.net – Just ran across this the other day but haven’t gone through any of them.

* Word to the wise: Use a disposable virtual machine with a safe snapshot when messing around with this kind of stuff. The sites are probably safe, but you never know where you’ll end up and who could be targeting them for extra kicks. Use No-Script at a minimum.