Complete list of Questions and Answers for the Troll Bridge at Appulous / Installous
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| Q |
Kyek modified a Greasemonkey plugin to allow you to see if an Appulous IPA link was dead before you clicked it. The original plugin was the ________ Links Checker. |
| A |
Cavern |
| Q |
You ssh to your phone and decide to rename “Documents” to “Other crap”. Type the command to do it, without using quotes. |
| A |
mv Documents Other\ Crap |
| Q |
What German publication ran a two-page feature on Appulous in September? (It looks like a typo… but it’s not!) |
| A |
Pc magazin |
| Q |
You’re connected to our IRC server. To join our room, what would you type? |
| A |
/join #chatulous |
| Q |
They need to do way _________ mother |
| A |
instain |
| Q |
This site made a bad knockoff of Appulous to try to get hits, ended up getting DDoSed until they took it down |
| A |
Imodzone |
| Q |
Convert this to ASCII: 0x20496c31497c4f306f272222272020. |
| A |
( Il1I|O0o’”"‘ ) *Copy the text within the parentheses. There is one space at the start and two space at the end* |
| Q |
Approximately how many douchebags are trying to promote their lame websites, youtube accounts, and duplicate facebook groups by claiming they have the answers to these questions? |
| A |
over 9,000 |
| Q |
B00sted4fun’s Russian repo was hosted by what company |
| A |
Dreamhost |
| Q |
I made a job listing on rent-a-coder for someone to make an Appulous knockoff for my site. Kyek accepted the job under another name and pwned me  . But we’re cool now. Who am I? |
| A |
Pr0x |
| Q |
Before Genius’ Hackulous tag said “Root Admin”, what did it say? (Might have been even more fitting if he pulled a reverse Sosa.) (The background had 3 colors in it. It was all wavy-like.)
(And astrally striped.)
(Statistically, 20% of you see this background before 8am nearly every day.) |
| A |
President |
| Q |
You ssh into your phone and need to make a symlink from “cow” to “chicken”. Type the command. (Click here if you hate this) |
| A |
Ln -s cow chicken |
| Q |
I have two Hackulous accounts: My main one, and one I made just for fun. Which is the latter? |
| A |
thepoet |
| Q |
TheMonkeysBall.com was a two-man team: Wyze and _____________. |
| A |
Scuzzy19 |
| Q |
Who wrote the code that powered TheMonkeysBall.com? |
| A |
wyze |
| Q |
What parent company hosted TheMonkeysBall.com? |
| A |
OVH |
| Q |
I wrote this command-line app to take revenge on those trying to sell cracked apps. |
| A |
grabulous |
| Q |
This on-phone IPA installer predates both Installous and AppScene. What is it? |
| A |
ipainstaller |
| Q |
I was part of the team that discovered how to crack apps. My name is ________-fr. |
| A |
iceman |
| Q |
Who was the first person to start mass-cracking “self-aware” apps? (Transmit your answer in unison, K?) |
| A |
panik |
| Q |
Who did Labrat attempt to con into writing a private Appulous clone for his website? |
| A |
ANDYDAM |
| Q |
If the permissions are r-xrwxrwx, who can’t write? |
| A |
owner |
| Q |
SaladFork is slightly ______________. |
| A |
forky |
| Q |
To whom did SaladFork turn over the Crackulous project? |
| A |
`Angel |
| Q |
Who leaked the original Crackulous source code? |
| A |
cdecl |
| Q |
What feature of PHP 5.3 does Appulous make the most use of in its database system? |
| A |
Late static binding |
| Q |
The Appulous test servers, on which new backend code and server configs are tested semi-publicly before moving to production, are provided by what company? |
| A |
amazon |
| Q |
What was the name of the app written specifically for downloading and installing IPAs from the b00sted4fun repository, and who wrote it? Answer in the format “APPNAME by AUTHOR”. |
| A |
APPSHARE by FLAWLESS |
| Q |
Who ran the most successful and largest IPA site before Appulous? (bigger than TMB) |
| A |
b00sted4fun |
| Q |
This domain name got popular when the site admin started bundling IPA files into torrents and advertised his website in them |
| A |
Pr0x.org |
| Q |
When Appulous was tiny, it ran on a VPS provided by _________________.com. (Rhymes with SnapsBoasting) |
| A |
BAPSHOSTING |
| Q |
I work for Apple’s law firm and have been trying to get Appulous shut down since the beginning. I wish I was better at my job . What’s Kyek’s nickname for me? |
| A |
rammy |
| Q |
I work for Apple’s law firm and have been trying to get Appulous shut down since the beginning. I wish I was better at my job . What’s my first and last name? |
| A |
Ian Ramage |
| Q |
TDDebug made AppScene.org what it is today. Who runs it now? |
| A |
pondeuce |
| Q |
Aside from Siddhow, who adminned endlessapps.net? |
| A |
meknowsnobody |
| Q |
Who wrote the app that defeated nearly all “crack-aware” apps, at the expense of not being able to sync them to iTunes? |
| A |
Flawless |
| Q |
What was the name of the short-lived app on the Hackulo.us repo meant solely for refreshing your springboard cache? (R_ _ _ _ _ D) |
| A |
rebuild |
| Q |
Who wrote the very first autocracking BASH script? |
| A |
Flox |
| Q |
Who was the admit of Hackstore? |
| A |
Labrat |
| Q |
Who is the cracker most credited with discovering the cracking method we use today? |
| A |
lsemtex |
| Q |
The very first public forum dedicated specifically to iPhone 2.0 app cracking was hosted at __.com |
| A |
haklabs |
| Q |
what did appulous start off as _.net |
| A |
Geniusblog |
| Q |
This developer was the first to program a library for pulling all of the screenshots for an app out of the appstore. |
| A |
doosje |
| Q |
Three people were responsible for posting a huge number of apps to Appulous before it was ever opened to the public. These people are most_uniQue, bugmenotaasdf, and who else? |
| A |
sonic |
| Q |
________aasdf? |
| A |
bugmenot |
| Q |
What is the name of Appulous’ caching algorithm? |
| A |
REcache |
| Q |
What is Haklab’s favorite food? |
| A |
penis |
| Q |
What kind of jail are stock iPhones in? |
| A |
chroot |
| Q |
What is the online alias of the first person to buy the appulo.us domain? |
| A |
vibe |
| Q |
What was the name of Hackulous’ April Fool’s Day app? |
| A |
winulous |
| Q |
Four lettrs. Who am I? |
| A |
Kyek |
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