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by ZirconCode 4334 days ago
The best part of this game is the leaderboard:

7e+177 - maplesyrupguy

1e+73 - Game itself was harder than to hack it

1.3999999999999998e+26 - I learned at least one thing...

1.555555682012021e+24 - Tries to teach security, fails at security.

1.4e+22 - jon

1e+22 - idiots

123456789212345710000 - Ironically it's easy to hack a game about finding security bugs!

100100000000000000000 - did i do

70000000000000130000 - alex

2800000000000251000 - frankwins

3 comments

Maybe that was the meta game.
alex here. After getting a question correct, you can submit the same POST request with the same answer, and a very large negative number for the time. I imagine they're just adding your newly calculated score (30?-time) to your session's previous score. A lesson in sanitising inputs!
Always been a huge fan of maplesyrupguy.