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## 121 ghettohackers: Throwback ##
(misc)
**Files provided**
- `text`
**Description**
The `text` file contained:
> Anyo!e!howouldsacrificepo!icyforexecu!!onspeedthink!securityisacomm!ditytop!urintoasy!tem!
**Solution**
Naturally my first instinct was to fill in the missing letters. So, filling in the blanks, we get:
> Anyone who would sacrifice policy for execution speed thinks security is a commodity to pour in to a system!
The letters we filled in were `nwltisoos`. This doesn't really look like anything and it was not the flag. The description and the title of the challenge hinted at DEF CON CTFs from a long time ago. I assume this sort of challenge was indeed part of an old CTF, but I couldn't find it. Searching for the quote itself was not successful either, there was no exact match for this sentence.
In my text editor the text was laid out like this:
Anyo!e!howouldsacrificepo!icyforexecu!!onspeedthink!securityisacomm!ditytop!urintoasy!tem!
n w l ti s o o s .
So I focused on the blanks between the filled-in letters. Counting the number of spaces between each blank (and the beginning):
4-1-18-11-0-12-15-7-9-3
And, substituting 1 for A, 2 for B, etc, and 0 for a space, that gives us the flag, `dark logic`.
