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# pico Primer for Competitors
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## Overview
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This is a succint textbook on solving cybersecurity challenges presented by
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traditional "Jeopardy-style" Capture-The-Flag (CTF) competitions.
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In the security CTF world, picoCTF is often cited as an excellent CTF for
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beginners. More than most of CTF's we tailor our problems to build on each
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other and ramp competitors up to more advanced security topics. This has all
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been done through our annual CTF, but with this Primer, we slowly branch into
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education outside of the CTF format.
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For years, we dreamed at picoCTF of providing more formal instruction about the
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myriad of challenges that we present in our CTF's. There will always be
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challenges that are beyond the scope of any textbook, but in 2020, there are
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Thank you for your interest and support of picoCTF!
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## Community
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Our Discord server is our main connection with our community at the current
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time (as of this writing, that is October 2020). Anyone is free to join this
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Discord server by accepting this invite:
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https://discord.gg/WQGdYaB
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This community is comprised mostly of picoCTF competitors and other CTF
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enthusiasts. But there are also staff developers, administrative leads,
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research leads, open-source contributors, and many other sorts of people.
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We have specific channels for primer related conversations, but you are welcome
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to post questions in any channel to get started.
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LT is the best point-of-contact for hacking on this Primer.
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## Compile & Deploy
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NOTE: asciidoctor required. Apt install as needed.
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