I've gotten so far as finding the first secret and turning that into something viewable so I can read the two word question. Not quite sure what to do with the stuff that's left over yet though.
Sure, that gives me an address, but the host isn't reachable.
I played around with it and found a login page that might be similar but _no clues_ as to how to gain access. Feel like I'm missing an intermediate step here.
I really enjoy these puzzles, but I'm also stuck at the login page. Even poking around, and ignoring that the subdomain isn't working, I don't see anything else. Have any suggestions?
Everything you need to figure it out is on the login page.
Consider how hackernews works, there is the login page but that is not the only means to authenticating. You don't after all have to type your user/pass out for every page request.
Thanks for the tip! I'll be attacking this again tonight, I think I have an idea now that you mention auth. By the way, some subdomains are public (not sure if part of the game), like source.0x0539.com, oxidized etc.
Awesome work, thanks for the fun!
Edit: Just got past login, what an awesome puzzle. That being said, I hate that it looks like I have a run an executable from your site. Seems dangerous, so now I have to spend the time getting a VM setup.