Introduction

Welcome to Capture The Flag, blah blah blah.

What This Is

• A hacking contest
• A chance to witness the nature of real cyber incident response
• An opportunity to show off your 1337 skillz

What This Is Not

• A LAN party
• A chance to talk up how great you think you are
• An opportunity to show off your sweet gaming rig

Rules

Important Rules

• The contest network is 10.x.x.x. Do not attack machines outside the contest network.
• If the "outside network" requires you to plug into a different switch, do not connect any machine that has been on the contest network.
• Consider this network hostile: your machine may be compromised.
• We expect you to be disruptive within the framework of the game (malicious code, network scanning, social engineering, etc.). Disruptive behavior outside the game will result in a public and humiliating ejection from the contest area.

Less-Important Rules

• If IRC is up, you should use it to communicate with the contest staff. Staff will have operator status in #ctf.
• If you think something is wrong with the game, you are expected to demonstrate the problem and explain why you think it's a problem.

Hints

If you are really stuck, you can ask for a hint. It will cost you points, though. For puzzles, you will lose ¼ of the points for that puzzle even if you never solve the puzzle. For other events, the staff member will decide how many points it will cost. You can try to bribe us or otherwise fanagle information out of us, or other contestants. It's a hacking contest.

About Us

We are the dirtbags. You might be better at this than we are, but you're not running the contest.