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		jsharpe on Feb 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag setuid doesn't work inside of GDB. You have to run the program without a debugger to get level04 permissions. (Disclaimer: I haven't succeeded yet.)

mirkules on Feb 23, 2012 [–]

I mostly live inside a Java world or XCode world, so GDB is almost a totally foreign concept to me - and I definitely welcome the challenge. Never really had to look at assembly before either, so this is a fun learning experience.

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