Overall Placement: #29/451
High School Placement: #8/39
Thoughts:
First high school CTF!
Overall, I think I did quite well with this CTF! However, I definitely had some major problems with spending far too long on problems that could have taken only 30 minutes max. cough cough webcam and Shifty Sands cough cough. I also missed galleria because I didn’t include a single / D:
I think I could have done better, and I am honestly a little disappointed considering this is probably the most time I have ever spent on a single CTF. My key takeaways are:
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I am not good at pwn… I need to learn some basic ROP and heap at the very least.
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Don’t spend too long on a single challenge. Linkedout 2 (I still hate that challenge) and webcam killed my brain Saturday and Sunday.
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Take breaks! Related to the previous one, but it’s not good to just keep going at a challenge without any progress. It destroys my mental :(