Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Python has two ways to get a value from a dictionary, and both are useful! But the way they were used in this challenge made solving it waay to easy.

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The original CTF task in question was called (if I remember correctly) "mqtt" and was made by the InfoGuard crew - kudos!

My talk from AREA41 which I've mentioned:
"Hacker Goes Speedrunning: Beating A 25 Hour Game In Under 2 Minutes"
youtube.com/watch?v=OkL6RKLznHk

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