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Yes, you can. (With a lucky guess) I've just re-done the challenge within 5 minutes; using no brute-force at all. As knoerxi said: The encoding is "obviously" -- it is standard -- it can returned with a free accessable OnlineTool== If just ask again in the "Challenges Solved" for...

@AMindForeverVoyaging: I didn't think of it myself (from: http://www.hacker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=105): the points are recalculated hourly. I don't know why this is done (I guess only adum knows). The only reason to do this I can think of is to give new players a fair chance. If two people solve...

For as far as I can tell, seeing my rank go up and down as well, and from what I can read from the previous links and: http://www.hacker.org/challenge/about.php (and that fact that recalculation is necessary) You get points for each challenge you solve. The points you get for a challenge are probabl...

Besides the startup folder. There is another, more hidden, way to auto-start in windows: the registry. http://www.doshelp.com/HowToView/Registry_Keys.htm This has a couple of advantages: - It is user independent. - It's more hidden. Everybody knows the startup-folder; the registry key is less known ...

Well; there are two options; either fix the overflow or try to read/guess the solution based on what you know.

I do have to note; if you want to solve the next challenge as well, fixing the overflow here will give you a head start

If you can't do it ... maybe you should create something that can do it that fast.

I could be me ... but I don't think someone is hacking you (in particular) It sounds just like behaviour of just any random virus (or as malachi wrote a annoying friend) and to help you solve your problem; try not logging in on Skype (or even better not have it running at all). Going on the link you...

Well ... what can I say about it.


You might try actually reading what the page.
A lot of people solved it ... so it can't be that hard.