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Does someone do in-depth posts/videos/talks about any of these (Google or FB) CTF challenges by breaking up what is happening, what, why and how they tried per challenege and how did they finally come to the solution step-by-step?

These things have always intimidated me and I'd love to know more.

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I started streaming it yesterday on my Twitch channel, but I was asked not to by a Google employee.

I've been working through the Beginner's Quest instead, which is actually a lot of fun and has a cute story.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/442406188 if anyone wants to see the broadcast from yesterday.

Thanks for the tip on using iconv. I spent an hour trying to figure out which command to use for that README.flag! Learnt something new!

Always happy to help! <3

Gynvael Coldwind (member of Google security team) probably will do. Here's video from last year's Beginner Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDYwcIf0LZw

ctftime lists writeups, but in general you can google "whatever ctf challenge name writeup"

Check out LiveOverflow on YouTube. He's gone in depth on a bunch of CTF tasks and his solving process.

People often write this up after the fact.

Google’s CTF normally drops write ups (both their own and links to external solvers’) in some shared repository afterwards.

Of course they won’t go play by play through everything they thought about every time, but they are pretty good reads.

Check out MurmusCTF. [1]

1. https://m.youtube.com/MurmusCTF?uid=UB9vOGEUpw7IKJRoR4PK-A

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