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by lurker17 5227 days ago
Bonus to anyone who gets the answer by intercepting another solver's email message.
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I just hope this machine is isolated from Stripe's network, in case someone makes it to secret level 99.
Yep, it's completely isolated. Someone rooting the machine is very much within our threat model :).
Must be fun watching all of the attempts... Do you have any way to monitor progress?
We don't have an exposed way. We'll probably do a summary blog post in the future with stats though!
I would LOVE to see something like a graph with the number of users who are logged in at each level over time and a little log at the bottom.

"User 10.0.0.1 read the level 1 file" "User 10.0.0.1 read the level 3 file"

Then I am a stats junkie

I've been trying to read $ history

Failed. :) I figured that would of been an easy way to progress through the levels. Read bash history from other users.

(This would certainly work if you can read my history: I don't consider the level "complete" until I get it down to a short bash one-liner that prints out the password. ;P)