Pwn.college(pwn.college)
330 points by tripdout 5 days ago | 54 comments
tl;dr: Pwn.college is a free, hands-on cybersecurity education platform maintained by Arizona State University, using a martial-arts-style "belt" progression system to teach low-level computing and hacking skills. It powers much of ASU's cybersecurity curriculum and is open to the public, though the maintainers request that users refrain from posting writeups or walkthroughs to preserve its use as graded coursework.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Personal endorsement from users who learned a lot from the platform
  • ↑Nostalgic comparison to similar older hacking challenge sites
  • ↑Praise for the professors and academic origins behind the project
  • ~Criticism of practical barriers like Discord registration and text justification
  • ~Questioning the soft stance on writeups; suggest enforcing stricter rules