Is this what real life hacking looks like?

[Hardtarget01]

And whats the point of this game? To turn gamers into hackers?

[RE:Deemer]

Why not?

[Ser Jerald]

To answer your questions, in order; somewhat, to have fun, and no.

To be less sarcastic, if you can't see the fun in playing a game based on being an sentient AI in a giant network trying to vie for power and money, then I don't know why games appeal to you.

[Hardtarget01]

Scary stuff. I dont know anything about hacking so thats why I ask. Hope its not some: Hacking - The simulator and that the things here also works in real life.

[Ser Jerald]

It's a hacking simulator alright! It uses REAL javascript, but the developer is smart enough to know that obvious things have to be put in place to prevent anything designed in this game from escaping the sandbox.

He knew the risks, and he's taking them head-on.

[Hardtarget01]

Its a good thing that real life things have been changed/left out. A simulator that turns gamers into hardcore hackers, after training for a few weeks they could attack pretty much everything in real life, including Valve. Good God.

[Ser Jerald]

It's really not that anything was 'changed' or 'left out'. It's quite simple what he did. He designed the hacking system himself. He made the locks we crack, he made the program we run to hack the locks. The only thing players script in that is the scripts to make cracking those locks easier.

This simple design prevents players from ever unintentionally designing a real-world useable hack, and it also provides plenty of control to Trust (the dev) to balance the game and our ability to crack locks.

Additionally, he placed some constraints within the game's script writing-running software. There is an ultimate character-limit on scripts, this is only a minor hindrance as it means scripts simply need to hook into eachother to run contiguously, but still you are limited in how many scripts you can have, and how long each script can take to run individually.

All in all, there is no Trust, there is only security.

[LORD DORT]

lmao this entire thread

[Hardtarget01]

Whats so funny? Please do tell, I dont know anything about hacking.

[Spliff]

Originally posted by Hardtarget:

Whats so funny? Please do tell, I dont know anything about hacking.

Your level of intelligence on this topic is quite amusing

[Hardtarget01]

Yeah I know i am stupid, you a pro on this hacking business?

[orbajo]

Damn guys, you don't gotta be hard on the guy...

As for the original post, this isn't really like real life hacking, it's simulated, but in a more realistic way than some games. No kind of security on anything in real life on an actual network would feature the same "locks" this game has, but it's still satisfying to break through them, nonetheless. It gives the feeling of hacking a lot more than other games, let's put it that way.

Simply playing this game is not going to turn someone into a full fledged hacker, either. It uses ONE of MANY programming languages that are out there, which is cool cause you could learn that language from playing this game enough. But turning people into hackers? No, it's not the point of the game.

[Ashtrays]

No it has nothing to do with acutal hacking, but it's a cool tool to learn javascript while pretending to be a haxor

[Rectal Nectar]

If the question is something like "Will I learn how to hack the Gibson and become the next Guccifer/Mitnick/Neo, or at very least I'll break into my oneitis facebook account?", then the answer is obviously "NO" as the game covers the subject of network security about just as much as ARMA 3 covers military life, i.e. it keeps the 1% cool bits relevant to the game's subject, while eliminating the other 99%, which is almost all tedious, time-consuming stuff.

If you're looking for a cyberpunk-themed, multiplayer puzzle game then you found it. The most real-life applicable experience you'll pull out of it is some javascript knowledge if you're willing to invest time and maybe get used to command-line interface if you never used it before.

[YanDa]

dude if you wanna some real "hackerS game" - play "Fate"
http://www.fatetek.net/

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Hardtarget:

And whats the point of this game? To turn gamers into hackers?

TV Shows are a bit more realistic than this game for hacking and that's saying something. :P
Mr. Robot is probably the most realistic TV show ever for hacking.

There's nothing in this game that would translate to real hacking as pointed out.

Think of this as no different than the game/simulation based on the Warren commision report on the Assassination of JFK, where you to, can be Lee Harvey Oswald. The U.S Government is weird.

A game designed to simulate real life events is not the same as the real life event.