Happy Birthday BoiledBeans! I guess we will just call it official and post once a year. Just kidding.

Question for the day. 1 demanded 2 to come up with a writing system that soldiers could read in the dark. 2 Created it and 3 improved it to make it more useful and it is now used all over the world. Who is 2? Bonus points for identifying 1 and 3.

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Continuing our computer security and hacking theme round.

This is Edward Snowden. What is he doing? Bonus cookie points if you tell the exact name of the exploit he is defending himself from.

Cracked by: s m muneer ali and Sumanth Patlolla

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Continuing our hacking and computer security theme round.

xkcd explaining one of the most widespread and easily exploitable vulnerabilities in recent times. In fact, the need to patch the vulnerability so urgent, security researchers wore marketing hats, created a logo and gave it a name to raise awareness (it worked really well!). Identify the exploit.

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This man “wanted to count the number of computers on the internet” and unleashed a now legendary piece of software causing a lot of “damage”. Who is he? Fake Bonus points if you explain the post title.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , s m muneer ali , Dibyo and Supritha Maiya

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Continuing our theme round. Made famous by Silicon Valley, but this device is real and used quite frequently by hackers. What is this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , Dibyo , Ashish Kumar and s m muneer ali

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Theme round! Next few questions will be focused on hacking and computer security. Broadly.

In one of the earliest known instances of “hacking”, Person 1 (below) hacked a public demo of 2’s invention to show that it was not “safe and secure” as claimed 2. Identify 1.

Cracked by: Dibyo , Sumanth Patlolla , Supritha Maiya and Tej

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Connect. Also, don’t forget to get free stickers.

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Boiledbeans turned 10 years old today! We have printed some nifty Boiledbeans stickers. Fill the form below and we will send you some!

Question for today: Identify this spacecraft, also launched 10 years ago.

Sticker form – Fill this to get some boiledbeans stickers

Cracked by: Dibyo , Tej , Shwetha Maiya , Sumanth Patlolla , s m muneer ali and Supritha Maiya

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Enough of that algorithms round. A simple question today.

Who is in that white bunny suit? Bonus points if you explain the significance of this event.

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Continuing our Algorithm themed round is this plaintext question. This eponymous algorithm, made famous by Google and Akamai is used widely in databases, search engines and data analytics platforms to find if an element exists in a set or not. Which algorithm are we talking about?

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