Uncover Santa's Gift List

After a long and snowy journey I’ve finally arrived to the north pole to attend KringleCon III! I talk to Jingle Ringford to orientate myself:

Welcome! Hop in the gondola to take a ride up the mountain to Exit 19: Santa’s castle! Santa asked me to design the new badge, and he wanted it to look really cold - like it was frosty. Click your badge (the snowflake in the center of your avatar) to read your objectives. If you’d like to chat with the community, join us on Discord! We have specially appointed Kringle Koncierges as helpers; you can hit them up for help in the #general channel! If you get a minute, check out Ed Skoudis’ official intro to the con! You can’t wait to get to the KingleCon but first, your should check your badge which already has your first objective ready:

I see the big billboard on the top-left near the main road. Click HERE to open it in a new window so that you can download it for closer inspection.

Some hints from the badge to get started with the image manipulation:

• There are tools out there that could help Filter the Distortion that is this Twirl.
• Make sure you Lasso the correct twirly area.

It seems that to recover Santa’s gift to Josh Wright I will need to do a bit of image manipulation to un-twirl the photo’s section which contains the list.

Luckily they shared a link to this online tool which can do this quite easily.

After fiddling around with it for a few minutes, I managed to un-twirl it enough to read it: proxmark

Click to learn more about what proxmark is, it may be useful later on …

On to the next objective! 😎