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Alright!!

(gdb) run defuse.txt
Welcome to my fiendish little bomb. You have 6 phases with
which to blow yourself up. Have a nice day!
–secret defusion phrase 1–

Subject: Bomb notification Sun Oct 12 21:35:30 2003

Phase 1 defused. How about the next one?
–secret defusion phrase 2–

That’s number 2. Keep going!
–secret defusion phrase 3–

Halfway there!
–secret defusion phrase 4–

So you got that one. Try this one.
–secret defusion phrase 5–

Good work! On to the next…
–secret defusion phrase 6–

Breakpoint 4, 0x08048d4e in phase_6 ()
1: $eax = –secret defusion phrase 6–
(gdb) cont
Subject: Bomb notification Sun Oct 12 21:35:42 2003

bomb-header:s03bomb:18:makeal:defused:6
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:1:–secret defusion phrase 1–
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:2:–secret defusion phrase 2–
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:3:–secret defusion phrase 3–
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:4:–secret defusion phrase 4–
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:5:–secret defusion phrase 5–
bomb-string:s03bomb:18:makeal:6:–secret defusion phrase 6–
Congratulations! You’ve defused the bomb!
Your instructor has been notified and will verify your solution.

Program exited normally.
(gdb)

Now I have 3 exams to worry about this week…
It does feel good to get this off my back though.