Depends on what the desired outcome it. I read the challenge as compromising one of the pieces of software on the website. Doing that with social engineering was the desired outcome.<p>The attacker thought out of the box to tackle a lesser challenge: getting a string on the website itself. It was technically true under rules, funny, and contest issuer even owned up to it. It&#x27;s not the real challenge, though. No real-world impact. So, just amusing trolling.