Acknowledgements
So that’s it! I just finished the Holiday Hack Challenge 2020 completely!
This is an especially rewarding feeling to have pulled this off for the 2nd year in a row. 2020 has been quite an unusual year, to say the least, for various reasons, good or bad. But this CTF at the very end of it is probably one of the most amazing ways to close it off on such a positive note.
Firstly, I would like to thank the folks at CounterHack and the SANS Institute for putting it together. Itás been such a tumultuous year, yet thez delivered such a high quality product for us. I am especially impressed by the smooth progression in the difficulty of the objectives, and of course all the creativity that went into creating them. Just simply amazing!
Secondly, I want to say thanks to all the peoople on Discord who helped me with gentle nudges in desperate times. I probably would have lost much more hair and finished it much later, if it weren’t for you gals:
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Last but not least, I want to thank my family who allowed me to work on these objectives throughout most of the holiday season… 😇
Already looking forward to what HHC 2021 will have in store!