Holiday Hack Challenge 2023 Report Cody Travis <cwtravis@gmail.com>
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Easter Eggs

Here are some Easter Eggs I found.

Jason

Jason is Back

Jason returns as a (not a) dead fish this year at Coggoggle Marina on Steampunk Island!

notadeadfish.png

WarGames

Missile Launch Code: WarGames

The missile launch code and other data were found in the database table "messaging" during the Missile Diversion challenge. These values match the ones seen in the film WarGames (1983).

Here are the rows in the "messaging" table.

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DB Output
id: 1 | msg_type: RedAlphaMsg | msg_data: RONCTTLA | 
id: 2 | msg_type: MsgAuth | msg_data: 220040DL | 
id: 3 | msg_type: LaunchCode | msg_data: DLG2209TVX | 
id: 4 | msg_type: LaunchOrder | msg_data: CONFIRMED | 
id: 5 | msg_type: TargetSelection | msg_data: CONFIRMED | 
id: 6 | msg_type: TimeOnTargetSequence | msg_data: COMPLETE | 
id: 7 | msg_type: YieldSelection | msg_data: COMPLETE | 
id: 8 | msg_type: MissileDownlink | msg_data: ONLINE | 
id: 9 | msg_type: TargetDownlinked | msg_data: FALSE | 
"messaging" table contents

Here is the same data in these frames from the film WarGames.