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Hack This Site Basic 1 Tutorial


Lets start our journey with hack this site.Visit the website and make an account.Login with your account.
Now we are going to look at basic 1.
Select Basic missions from left tab and choose basic 1
"This level is what we call "The Idiot Test", if you can't complete it, don't give up on learning all you can, but, don't go begging to someone else for the answer, thats one way to get you hated/made fun of. Enter the password and you can continue. "


This is the easiest level.It teaches you this, you should first look into the source code for some clue or vulnerability.
Yes! Just right click on the page and select view-source.Now you can see the source code.Read along the lines until you find the line containing password:
  SPOILER HERE
Yes you have hacked the first level!
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