In 1987 Sierra On-Line protected Leisure Suit Larry by asking you to look something up in the manual nobody had.

You cracked it by flipping JNZ to JZ in a hex editor.

I built a login screen for a fictional company in a blog series. It protects itself the same way — look up the seventh word on page 42, line 6 of the employee handbook that no one has.

The company is Infinity Co, a division of Zero Industries Ltd

Want to see what happens when you run out of login attempts?

https://sprout.loss.dev/posts/a-deadline-and-a-dag

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