From bandit0 to bandit33: What a Linux Wargame Taught Me About Portfolios
I finished OverTheWire Bandit last night — level 33, the last one. I expected a sense of victory. I got a README file, a blinking cursor, and a realization I have not been able to shake since: almost none of the game was actually about Linux. The password chain is a track record. A permission bit is a position limit. A setuid binary is leverage. The hard part was never the command; it was earning the right to run it — which, it turns out, is the whole job.