Show HN: Chronos, 2 terminal games through 50 years of hacking history
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Chronos 1 is a terminal escape room, through the history of computer, from Unix V6 to modern Linux and known exploits.
Chronos 2 is a chase across real cyberwarfare, the 2016 Bangladesh bank heist, Moonlignt Maze, the Ukraine grid attack, Stuxnet and plenty more.
I spent about 2 months writing Chronos 2, looking for feedback, especially dialing the difficulty and the hint level.
01:58 lifted the blue-box tones — 1977
14:41 energized relay 3 — 1977
14:41 cut the LOCKD backdoor key — 1977
29:55 earned an elite BBS handle — 1983
55:19 recovered the DES key half — 1988
58:47 recovered the worm signature — 1988
60:28 the purge fired — the lock welded shut