Day 0: JavaScript

Another day, another server to crack. But today's weapon isn't a zero-day exploit or some fancy social engineering trick. Today, it's the mundane, the ordinary, the very building block of the web itself: JavaScript.

They call it "ECMAScript" officially, some corporate committee jargon no doubt. But who cares about suits? ECMAScript is just a fancy way of saying the rules for how this scripting language works. Like a hacker's guide to manipulating the system from the inside.

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