Basic level X

i think that it was a scavenger hunt around the site.

so i have heard. but specifically what was it?

sorry. im not sure beyond that

ok. do any of you expert hacker dudes know what was in the basic level X?

BLX: There were 7 different passwords for the level (they were HEX), spread around the site, and your job was to find all of them. Some of the passwords were out in the open (e.g. One was in the 100% completion bar), and some were in really obscure places (e.g. there was this random php file that had one code). A lot of people had little to no difficulty in finding the first few codes, but the last few really stumped them, but there were some really nice (and obscure) hints in the forums that helped a great ton.

huh. it sounds like a really fun treasure hunt!!!! i wish that the level was still on the site. we should ask flabbyrabbit to put it back on.

how many points was it worth?

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall somewhere around 75 points for each code.
PS: There is an edit option in the forums, please use it!

so, does that mean that you would the points individually as you found the codes, or that at the end you earned 525 points?

Yes, that’s exactly how it worked

no matter how you got the points, 525 points either way! that makes it the second biggest point value level on hackthis!

thats true. and that was a really vague post wibben. you didnt say which one it was

The problem by reimplementing level X would be to hide the locations under the source code on github.

im sorry but, i have no idea what github is. what exactly is it?

[quote=wiki]GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects[/quote]
https://github.com/HackThis/hackthis.co.uk

what is the Git revision control system. sorry about my ignorance

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Git+revision+control+system
If you need to know something that seems general enough, you can use some basic research skills (i.e. google)

Haha @Wibben, I hesitated to do that.
@dfalcon Just see github as a place to store and manage the code of a project. Hackthis is using github, so that means everyone can see the code.

oh! that makes a lot of sense now! thanks for the site Wibben.

so back to the problem of hiding the location of the file on github Memoria, are you saying that it would be hard or impossible? because I think that a lot of HackThis would like to have the level reintroduced and i am also fairly certain that a number of users (myself included) would be happy to help put the level back up IF i was not impossible

It’s not impossible, there is some workarounds but if code location are hard-coded in the source code it will just increase complexity.
What would be great is a kind of unobtrusive way to add them anywhere, any-time and with different place for each user.

that would be really cool. thats an interesting idea

It was a pain in the *** level.

[quote=dfalcon]that would be really cool. thats an interesting idea[/quote]
[quote=dfalcon]a number of users (myself included) would be happy to help put the level back up[/quote]
Yeah, it’s interesting for someone who haven’t known what GitHub is. Just a question to anyone who wants to put that level back: What will we do to be able to hide all hard-coded BLX codes on GitHub?

You’re being mean @freewind1012
I know a lot of developers who doesn’t know what is github and not even know what’s an SCM, but it doesn’t mean they can’t help to make such levels.
As for @dfalcon, maybe he has ideas to implements ? Who say you must have programming skills to emit ideas ?

@Memoria , if it was about anyone else ; I would have said that he/she really wanted to help but seriously when it comes to this guy , you know….his main agenda has always been : increasing his post count.
So , I guess…its all about spamming !!

But its true everyone wants the Gold Forum medal. So i’d say everyone is greedy about that but some guys are just pushing the limits. Anyways back on the topic- this was the most bad and time consuming level of all time, it just took most of the members years to complete it YEARS. There were many guys who helped me with the last two codes. Which were extremely well hidden.
There was this https://s155654.gridserver.com/ that i found! If anyone saw it in time he/she might have had the honor to solve the BLX. :p

@Memoria: I believe that all HT!! users have good intentions to improve this community. However, when I heard that @dfalcon had spammed 50 posts in a row with the same content “I like cheese!” (or whatever), faith in humanity lost again. :p

lol i never even had faith! Acts like these makes one a bad character! :/

I was actually the first to reach 1000 post and get the golden medals by being an AssHat like used to say @daMage . Since then, I’ve made some progress :p. Everyone should be able to get another chance. Even if I kind of secretly agree with @freewind1012 and you, it doesn’t mean we should be mean with other people.

Hmm @Memoria can you elaborate what you said in your above post? I did’t quite get it.

I got the forum medal by abusing a bug and saw my post count + medal removed after that :p.

@Memoria: You mentioned this incident, didn’t you? :p

I would speak only in the presence of my lawyer.

Why not just remove the Scoreboard all together then the little boys wouldn’t find the need to cheat. I’ll tell you what, I’ve be on here over four years and nothing gets better at least on hackthissite.org cheats and spoilers get punished. I’ve had enough of this site it seems all the n00bs want to do is score points and make themselves look like a hacker to their stupid friends and not the fuck-up they really are. Fuck it I’m off. No need to reply to me as I am deleting my account. Goodby!

I wonder where @ColdIV is……..

Why @tlotr ?? Did he leave the site or what ?
Re : Okay….Got it !!

I don’t know. Haven’t seen @ColdIV on HT!! in a very long time…..

Hmm? @ANONRA leaving the site? Wtf is happening?

God knows what is happening !! He surely shouldn’t leave. He is a great guy and a friend too….was perhaps troubled by something !! :)
Hope he is back when his mood is okay !! :)

well, he hasent deleted his user yet. he was probably just saying to put a point accross

I wish he doesn’t do that !!
@dfalcon : How about closing this thread. I guess ,you have got enough information about Basic X !!