Playing “picoCTF”

Today I spent some time playing picoCTF. It’s a computer security capture the flag environment and I had a great time doing practice challenges. One cool thing I learned is how to send cookies in wget requests. A while ago I struggled trying to figure out how, but it’s literally just “–header ‘Cookie: asdf'” Also, the linux “strings” command is great. I normally open binary files in a hex editor and search, but strings + grep is faster.