Lynn is waiting outside Ed Skoudis' home, where players begin the quest. He will provide the packet capture for Part One, and needs to know the text from the image embedded in the pcap.Įd's office is upstairs in his home, in the northwest block of the neighborhood. Josh is in the center room of the Dosis' home. After solving Part One, she will provide a firmware image for Part Two. Jess is in the west room of Duke Dosis' home, in the northwest block of the neighborhood. In the map above, and in the walkthrough below, assume that up is "north." There are 21 achievements to complete, some of which have prerequisites which must be completed first.
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In the course of the quest, players talk to Josh and Jessica, as well as numerous SANS experts who offer tips on how to help the Dosis kids interpret what they find. The quest takes place in the imaginary neighborhood of Josh and Jessica Dosis, tech-savvy kids that did what any good hacker would do: they hacked their new Internet-connected toy to see what it was really doing. I am sure it is no coincidence that the gnomes evoke thoughts of Hello Barbie, Mattel's Internet-connected talking doll that has sparked considerable privacy worries this year. The Gnomes are wildly popular electronic toys that just happen to be spying on the families (oddly reminiscent of a Washington Post story suggesting that Elf on the Shelf teaches kids to expect a world of constant surveillance). Themed “Gnome in Your Home,” the premise is a play on “elf on the shelf,” Santa’s diminutive spy with the impish grin. The 2015 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge begins with a throwback quest-style video game, complete with awesomely cheesy 8-bit Christmas music.