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lol, I forgot a flag. I thought I removed s3Cur1tY_c7f{w1ll_y0u_b3_th3_f1r57qq_}.

Where did you find this flag?? hahaha

The last two flags were both found in /home/ctfbot/Downloads/snz/issue15web.pdf

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43 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 15h

Ahh, I see, right. Must have somehow included another flag instead of replacing the existing one.

You’ll get paid for the extra flag! I wasn’t sure anyone would find the base64-encoded flag, so it makes sense to pay extra for it.

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Either way is fine! Mainly just doing it for the fun. Pretty cool game.. is this the second time you ran it?

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43 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 15h

Yeah I ran a CTF to debug NWC two years ago

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The bot is new though. The semi-collaborative / competitive nature of it was cool. I was impressed by @optimism's ability to hide what he was doing. But decoding some of his stuff, I couldn't help but think he was overcomplicating things haha

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43 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 15h

You used a gpu and you call my hydrocarbons overcomplicated?

I wasn't really playing the ctf. I was looking for ways to give @ek headaches.

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168 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 15h
You used a gpu and you call my hydrocarbons overcomplicated?

Btw, this was a great example of why some say the CTF scene is dead

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Not that I was ever part of that scene, but competitive, remote formats are probably dead. And I don't know if there are any in-person, offline competitions that are held, like for students.

I think there is still room for it as a single-player experience. Like logic based video games where you can just look up solutions online, but people don't because it would spoil the fun

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 14h

I can see that.

I've been operating on the defense side of the fence since the early 90s and that scene, profession (and all hope) is dead too. That said it IS great to just log everything and stream gigabytes of logs through a properly trained LLM - I really want to train functiongemma on ssh logs to see if fail2ban misses something.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15h

Yes, the bot is new. The idea of running something like this is old :)

Thanks for playing! This was a great experiment.

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