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Soon, one of my little dreams will be fulfilled. Since I’ve known of its existence, I wanted to be a part of it, at least once!

Friday, 17:00 this event will start. I’m speaking of “The UCSB iCTF“. The iCTF is one of the oldest, most played CTF in the world. It has made its apparition on several media, especially in Germany as German universities win this challenge regularly (ENOFLAG from Berlin won last year). There I first heard of CTF competitions. I was immediately fascinated by these people understanding the machine and what it’s running in such a way that they were able to control it in a way that was not foreseen, and own other experts.

So Friday I’ll be part of the Fluxfingers team, and hope to have a good time and collect some flags. Fluxfingers got a huge amount of new members in the last weeks, so that our team will be more powerful (hopefully) that at the ruCTFe.

Anyhow I’m really looking forward to this event. Tomorrow, is a last training where I guess we will discuss the strategy and who is responsible for what and has to setup what on the vulnerable box, in order to permit more eased hacking, patching and protecting in general.

Somehow I’m also looking forward to the guys of Squareroots and the other teams. I guess this one of the parties the geeks have… other people go to discos and to the bermuda3eck… we go to university and try to understand code, while eating pizza and consuming caffeine.
In the close future I see a Syn2Cat/C3L capture-the-flag contest. Really, I think that will be a great event, too.

Best regards,
Kabel