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Hack This Site - Programming - Bypass the image captcha

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

CS:GO A ‘Short’ Game Theory Analysis

If you’ve ever been interested in any esports, then you most definitely have come across ‘Counter Strike: Global Offensive’ (CS:GO). CS:GO is a very popular first-person shooter, released in 2011 to replace it’s predecessor ‘Counter Strike Source’, with just under 1 million concurrent players worldwide. There are multinational tournaments held with over $8.6 million in prize money released this year.

The Effects of a Broken Network

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.” – Petra Nemcova (4)

Hack This Site - Programming - Fix a corrupted file

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

Hack This Site - Programming - Parse an XML file

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

Hack This Site - Programming - Reverse Encryption

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

Web Development

Over the summer of 2020, I decided to take some initiative and create a CV website - which you are currently on now - that I also wanted to double up as a blog for random things that I found interesting. One thing was definitely apparent, a backend was not needed at all for the purpose of this project, thus leaving me with only a couple choices of how I wanted to approach this project.

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If you’ve ever been interested in any esports, then you most definitely have come across ‘Counter Strike: Global Offensive’ (CS:GO). CS:GO is a very popular first-person shooter, released in 2011 to replace it’s predecessor ‘Counter Strike Source’, with just under 1 million concurrent players worldwide. There are multinational tournaments held with over $8.6 million in prize money released this year.

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.” – Petra Nemcova (4)

Inspiration

There are many tutorials out there on splitting a Windows dual boot onto two different drives, or moving a Linux/Windows dual boot to a different drive. Sadly, my specific dual boot scenario was not easily found and therefore I decided to make this blog post for my own personal notes in case I would need to ever do this again. To finish off, I will include a quick comparisson using CrystalDiskMark to show...

Hack This Site

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.

Welcome back to my walkthrough of hackthissite.org’s CTF missions. I will be going through my thought process of how I solved these missions, and therefore also giving away the solutions. If you came across this to give you hints, watch out for spoilers! Good luck, have fun.