The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes

A fun, modern-day “whodunnit” web app style described at eieio.games.

That H – it represented one byte. One byte represented 8 bits. 8 bits represented 8 checkboxes.

Those chunks of 8 checkboxes formed a repeating pattern that lined up with the URLs. And if I changed something – if I unchecked a box – the pattern immediately reappeared.

A repeating pattern of checkboxes. When the user unchecks some boxes the boxes are immediately re-checked
spooky

I hadn’t been hacked.

Someone was writing me a message in binary.”