Hack This Site: Basic Mission 1
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Basic Level 1 : The Idiot Test
This test is simple. Don’t worry if you can’t crack it at the first go. You will soon realise how simple it is.
This level is what we call “The Idiot Test”, if you can’t complete it, don’t give up on learning all you can, but, don’t go begging to someone else for the answer, thats one way to get you hated/made fun of. Enter the password and you can continue.
So you simply have to enter the password. But where to find the password? This test is about the most basic element of the web the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).
You need to have a basic knowledge of HTML. What it is, why it is there and how it works? The best place to learn web technologies is W3schools.
To pass this level you need to know, how comments are made in a HTML page. Comments help developers to keep track of what the code does at a later point of time. These comments are not executed.
Open the Source Code of the page and try to find the password. Yes, the password is there somewhere in the source code.
What You Learnt
Whenever you come to a web page in an attempt to exploit some security lapse, first open it’s source code. Go through it. It’s the first step of finding clues. It gives your first clues.
