Poor sports, I’ve always struggled to understand people who’d partake in hacking competitions and then get upset because someone got onto their computer and took all the flags.
The sport is about everyone racing to solve the same puzzles. If one team is sabotaging the puzzles in the process, it's a different kind of competition than the players expected. Frustration is warranted.
It would be like signing up for the 100m dash but then having your competitors throw obstacles into your lane. That wasn't the intent of the competition.
CTFs are (usually) hacking competitions for hackers, what else would you expect?
Rules are rules, there's a clearly defined scope of where the fighting happens and where it does not.
It’s really not.
It’s really not. rm is destructive, hacking competitors or infra to collect flags isn’t.
> What's the point for everyone else to continue after that?
Fun? Second, third, fourth … place?
I’d imagine most CTF teams don’t go in expecting to win.
And how are the other teams supposed to know anyway?
Simply because the context is hacking does not mean that performing additional hacking outside of the context of the competition is in the same spirit. Breaking the rules isn't hacking better than another team, it's breaking the rules.