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My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

Released Thursday, 19th August 2021
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My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

Thursday, 19th August 2021
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This is Ophir Harpaz, a security researcher at Guardicore. Her first hack was to reverse engineer the classic Windows game Minesweeper. Her goal was to force the program to put flags on all squares with mines—as soon as the board shows up. That essentially makes it incredibly easy to beat the game. That exercise changed her life.

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