Rating:
# Behind The Scenes
So we are greeted with an image:
Look at it long enough, and you will see in the background a virtual machine running linux, with the 'password' in notepad.
However, it's pixelated.
At first I thought that it would be a challenge about somehow separating image layers packed into the png file. I thought this because if you run `zsteg` on the image you get, among other data:
`xmp:CreatorTool=\"Pixelmator Pro 2.0.8`
Googling says:
```
## Pixelmator
Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for macOS by Lithuanian brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide, and built upon a combination of open-source and macOS technologies. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelmator)
```
However I was wrong.
# Solution
There is a tool named `Depix` which generates pixelated data of a set of characters, and compares it to your pixelated image and roughly replaces it with what it thinks are the letters.
https://github.com/beurtschipper/Depix
At first I was having some issues:
in that the outputted image was the same as the input.
Eventually, it boiled down to having to crop the image pixel perfect:
And we run it again to get a rough output:
Which we can just figure out from context.
