I appreciate your mentioning overthewire and claiming that you'd hire someone on the basis of their ability to make it through these challenges.
I do wish more CTFs kept their challenges online after the competition: good ones and these wargames form what are essentially the problem sets for a top-tier exploit engineering program.
I cut my teeth on these wargames, as well as pwnable.kr/tw and, of course, microcorruption. While working through some of these challenges and finally popping a shell was definitely satisfying, I'm not sure I'll feel "elite" until perhaps I take home master of pwn at cansecwest.
I do wish more CTFs kept their challenges online after the competition: good ones and these wargames form what are essentially the problem sets for a top-tier exploit engineering program.
I cut my teeth on these wargames, as well as pwnable.kr/tw and, of course, microcorruption. While working through some of these challenges and finally popping a shell was definitely satisfying, I'm not sure I'll feel "elite" until perhaps I take home master of pwn at cansecwest.