Go Capture the Flag! 🚩

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Angelica is joined by Neil S Primmer & Benji Vesterby to share their experience organizing “Capture the Flag” at GopherCon 2023. CTF events involve teams vying for supremacy as they strive to gather digital flags (presented as strings) and successfully submit them to the competition organizers. In essence, it’s a thrilling “scavenger hunt for nerds.” Join us as we unravel the intricacies and excitement of this unique gaming experience!

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Featuring:

• Neil S Primmer – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Benji Vesterby – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• CTF Handbook
• Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual
• Coverage of DefCon 8 from TechTV in 2000

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. What is Go Capture the Flag? (00:03:28)

3. Your first CTF (00:09:29)

4. Differences from other CTFs (00:14:48)

5. The process (00:17:42)

6. How did it go? (00:23:35)

7. Theme (00:25:36)

8. Changes for this year (00:30:29)

9. Facilitating the learning (00:35:27)

10. Red Team Field Manual (00:39:54)

11. Prepping for CTF 2024 (00:42:04)

12. Unpopular opinions! (00:47:07)

13. Neil's unpop (00:47:28)

14. Benji's unpop (00:49:04)

15. Wrap up (00:56:04)

16. Outro (00:57:38)