Windows
This is an external set of tools that offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment.
What is SysInternals/SysInternals Suite?
This is the FULL name of the founder of Linux.
What is Linus Torvalds?
This famous cybercriminal was rumored to be able to start “nuclear war” by whistling into a telephone.
Who is Kevin Mitnick?
This is the name of the main character in 1984.
What is Winston Smith?
This is what kind of cat Bingus is.
What is a Sphynx cat?
This shortcut lets you switch between windows in a given app.
What is Alt-F6?
This is the approximate market share of Linux across commercial computing devices. (single/double digit percent only, no decimals)
What is 2%?
This famous cybercriminal was known to use the technique known as “war driving”, hitting stores for their payment systems and abusing weak wireless security.
Who is Albert Gonzalez?
This is the fictional language of Oceania.
What is Newspeak?
This is the condition that causes extra toes in cats.
What is polydactylism?
This is the year that Windows XP stopped being supported, directly leading to the entirety of RIT’s security community sighing in relief.
What is 2014?
This command randomly reorganizes lines in a file.
What is shuf?
This hacker was known for spreading the very first internet worm.
What is Robert Morris?
This is the slogan of the Party in 1984.
What is Ignorance is Strength?
This cat is known as the oldest cat in the world, and lived until 38 years old.
Who is Cream Puff?
This command functions identically to Linux’s “grep”.
What is findstr?
This is the depreciated linux command to rename an interface, which has been replaced by ip link.
What is nameif?
This hacker was known for being one of the first hackers to be charged with multiple violations of the first renditions of the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) for publishing paid research papers from MIT.
Who is Aaron Schwartz?
This is the number of the room in which prisoners in Oceania face their greatest fear.
What is Room 101?
This is the type of foods that cats cannot taste.
What is sweet foods?
This Notepad suffix, put at the beginning of a text file, allows Windows to insert a date and time log every time a notepad is opened
What is .LOG?
This is an infamous terminal that shows random gibberish to make a screen appear like a rapidly moving terminal from a hacking movie.
What is hollywood?
In 2002, this computer hacker was known for attempting to access military networks in search of information regarding UFOs.
Who is Gary McKinnon?
This is the name of the city 1984 is largely set in.
What is London?
This is Alison’s favorite kind of cat.
What is a calico cat?