This past weekend I attended to fiberparty the days 27, 28, 29 an event held at Poliesportiu Campus Nord where about two hundred people meet to enjoy almost every field of computing from gaming and moding to coding and security. It had a pretty interesting activities schedule, games tournaments, talks, a coding challenges and the one I was most interested in, the security challenge.

The challenge consisted in 8+1 levels, level0 a very basic one and the 8 remaining levels. The challenge was a mix of web hacking, crypto, coding and stegano. First I started leading doing solo till level 4, at level 5 someone passed me it was Sec0 a group around 5 guys which came to be our main opponent, and when I say our it’s cause I merged with graz and SaLeM in order to compete against them since they together were faster than us doing solo. It was a healthy competition in which since level 5 Sec0 was leading until they reached level 7 where they got stuck and we could draw them. Here starts the real competition one level left, the hardest one, and we both at the same point, the game developer laughing, you can imagine the tension in the air, we progress a bit, they also do, we still progress a bit more, the also do, damn it they’re breathing in our necks…

Finally we won just by seconds! It was an interesting competition with really good opponents whom I’m glad we had, in fact if I had to decide who won the challenge I would say it was a draw