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VC Website for Hackers

root.vc

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I cannot believe I got rickrolled. This has to be the most creative rickroll I've ever seen. Burst out laughing, so unexpected.

Props!

Damn 'test' too, shame on me!

I got it by trying to open id_rsa ;)

That was my first one, and I thought I was safe afterwards. But then I saw the description on the test command, and I really couldn't help myself. I had to do it.

~Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never....~

Keep digging. There are so many Easter eggs. One of which yields a real world hacker kit mailed to your house.

> // I am so, so sorry for this code.

what an abomination. You almost have me beat https://github.com/Hugo0/calculator

I gave in and checked the git repo. Still on the hunt for the hacker kit, but the 'quit' command is 10/10

found it <3

I was thinking that the website would be recursive in that

  cat welcome.htm

would have the same output as the webpage itself.

In reality welcome.htm [1] deviates from index.html [2] in a curious way.

[1]: https://github.com/rootvc/cli-website/blob/main/welcome.htm

[2]: https://github.com/rootvc/cli-website/blob/main/index.html

If you type `exit`, it takes you the `welcome.htm` site!

Looks like some geocities bootstrap skin.

what a pleasant surprise seeing Root here! They're one of our investors. The entire firm is made up of engineers who've shipped consumer hardware products, rocket engines, dev tools...etc. They also happen to be genuinely good people. Honestly, their website (and office) is just a good reflection of who they are as a firm.

Really nice, I appreciate the effort

To think someone would waste company resources on launching a crypto mining process. The nerve!

Oh man, you found a crypto miner? Maybe help us out and get rid of it? ;)

`// I am so, so sorry for this code.`

Nice.

    guest:rootpc ~ $ touch welcome.htm
    You can't touch this

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