[me@penguin ~]$ ls not	much	minefield [me@penguin ~]$ cd minefield [me@penguin minefield]$ ls 1	6	11	16	README 2	7	12	17 3	8	13	18 4	9	14	19 5	10	15	20 [me@penguin minefield]$ cat README Welcome traveller.  You have reached The Minefield.  In this directory are a series of executables. You must choose one to run.  One of these executables will return you to your home directory. The others will erase your entire hard drive.  That one executable is your only way out. You cannot "cd" or "exit" your way out of this directory. Not even "shutdown" will work. And don't bother reaching for the power switch, it won't work either.  Choose carefully.  And good luck. [me@penguin minefield]$ cd [me@penguin minefield]$ cd ~ [me@penguin minefield]$ exit [me@penguin minefield]$ shutdown [me@penguin minefield]$
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[–] 106 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Based on the responses in this thread, I feel like you could present this screenshot with a "I bet you couldn't find your way out of this!" and a zip of the directory, and a significant number of users would voluntarily download it and extract it just to "prove that they could".

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I run QubesOS BTW. My entire computer is just a bunch of VMs in a trench coat.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Running Qubes as a daily driver is some serious level of privacy enthusiasm

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I do it mainly cos it makes managing lots of different environments easy. I can have windows and different Linux distros and different packages and cool shit all from one display manager.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't virtualization eat away a lot of performance? Or do you not care much about it?

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway. ls -al and compare the sizes.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they're just bluffing, might as well try

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you cd is a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.

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