choose a development—something to set in motion for the following turn. Our
decisions would be communicated via Slack to the White Team in another
room. Once the Red and Blue teams made their moves, the White Team would
decide the outcomes and then communicate some information back to each
team. This meant that we didn’t always know what actions the Blue Team had
taken to thwart our actions, and they didn’t know what we were planning.
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decide whether our schemes worked. We also didn’t do any actual hacking. This
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hosting the event. We toyed with using the emergency alert system to create
confusion, and I put forward that we send out a radiation warning. Our advisors
patiently reminded me that we’d likely lose access to a system once we used it.
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