After logging in to the HTS main page (with the form with id 'loginform' that posts to '/user/login'), an error is being displayed about a missing gif image: OK, that's the last time we let you drive. The requested URL /retired.gif was not found on this server. Click here to go back to the last page...

This one was hard, but fun. Would've taken me half the time if the encrypted text had been easier to read though.

As can be read above, I first solved this one using a batch script. Been optimizing it somewhat, but still takes a lot of time to do the calculus. So I gave PowerShell a shot. Here are the results:

CMD: 00h:09m:53s.996ms
PS1: 00h:00m:10s.815ms

I'd say PowerShell is somewhat faster

Found the quote below on bash.org. Made me laugh. <JDigital> Hacking dates back to early Roman times. However, back then there was very little to 'hack' - only stone tablets. <JDigital> People who would sneak in at night and change the contents of a stone tablet by 'hacking' at i...

There's also a really simple way for Sam to make this script somewhat idiot proof, so that it doesn't mess up php files that were fine in the first place. Just by adding a leading space to eval and saveeval. At first glance thought this the catch, hadn't read the mission message properly

Nice challenge!

Took me about 30 minutes. I'm a pretty experienced batch scripter, and a bit ashamed it took me so long.
For people struggling with this mission: remember "realistic 2"...

Took me a few hours, but I got it. Took me more time then it should have. Just halfway the range you'd expect, the batch calculus starts to behave "different". I wrote a batch script to semi-bruteforce it. Took about an hour. Looking back, I should've used c#, but I struggled to find a way...

Just finished this mission using plain old batch (windows command line scripting). About 50 lines of "code". I used the following method: 1. split the wordlist.txt by char count 2. loop through the scrambled words one-by-one 3. for a given scrambled word, select from the wordlist only word...

So since I solved the mission I'm still trying to work out a way to make (part(s)) of m********.c** tell me what I need to know. Can someone help me on this script? No... You're essentially saying that you could do the mission "eventually" except you can't. No... I'm essentially saying th...

I've done something I really regret now. Couple days ago I solved the mission using a walkthrough on youtube. To say it contains spoilers would be an understatement. Anyway, I've opted to do all these missions in chronological order, but I don't want to start mission 15 before I actually understand ...