Nonstandard configs, ports and service allocations all over the place.

Upload it to your drop server (linked) once youve got somehing and well take care of getting it up and running.

Hacknet is US9.99 on Steam (14.99 with the soundtrack bundled).

In the game, hes been given an assignment as part of his initiation into Entropy an online hacking collective clearly inspired by the real-life Anonymous.

Purpstas assignment is to hack into the Slash-Bot news server and delete all articles that deal with Entropy.

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Hes done that he successfully defeated the proxy, exploited vulnerabilities in the SSH and FTP services running on the server, then cracked the password file to gain root.

Purpsta has quickly learned that SSH runs on port 22, FTP on port 21, and that to cover his tracks after hacking a system he needs to rm the contents of the log directory.

This can cause the system to become unstable or unbootable.

Oh hehehe Purpsta goes back to the command-line and starts typing: rm config.txt This is why you shouldnt trust me with these things he says.

Returning to the Slash-Bot homepage, he is greeted by a Critical Error message.

Yep, all up in here wrecking yo server He returns to the filesystem and deletes the log, commenting as he does so: Imma delete the logs, because Bit taught me not to be sloppy.

In the world of Hacknet OS, Bit is the hacker who starts the story by contacting you via your JMail account, and drawing you into a web of conspiracy and high-tech hacking.

Hacknet ( hacknetOS on Twitter) is an independent game written by Adelaide developer Matt Trobiani ( Orann on Twitter).

It doesnt dumb down the hacking theres no hack the mainframe schtick here.

You can really learn some serious command-line-fu by playing this game, as well as gain an understanding of the broad brush strokes of penetrating networked systems.

Kevin Mitnick would approve.

Purpsta is my son, and Ive tried to teach him the command-line before.

However, in a world of iPads and YouTube, a command-line is a frightfully boring thing.

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Hacknet, however, brings gamification and an immersive story to the equation, plus an open world gaming experience.

Its like Postal, where the mission to go the corner store and buy milk could be just that and nothing more; or can turn in to a day of ridiculous politically incorrect mayhem involving beheadings and immolation.

As the head of Running With Scissors the studio that produced Postal pointed out: Postal is not intrinsically violent in contrast to games like Modern Warfare where violence is not just required, it is the games central dynamic.

Obviously it would be illegal to hack into it in the first place in the real world, so illegal hacking is a central dynamic of Hacknet OS but you can choose to be a grey hat hacker, ala Snowden fighting for social justice; or a script-kiddie black hat defacing websites for the hell of it.

And it has a killer soundtrack, available via bandcamp or as a bundle with the game on Steam.

Eight underground musicians contributed to the 14-track ambient electronic soundtrack definitely Ein Klein Hackmusik music to hack to.

How can you say no to a track with a name like Malware Injection Hacknet speaks to the iPad generation with its pop culture references: Entropy, SlashBot, JMail, and also its political consciousness Entropy have a mantra about the ethics that guide their hacking.

Its an argument for a 21st-century Second Amendment: citizen hackers like Snowden are needed to balance power and fight injustice.

Its an eternal existential question, phrased by Roman philosophers two thousand years ago as: quis custodiet ipsos custodes Who will watch the watchers In the world of Hacknet, that would be you.