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Hack the Planet: Walking the CyberDelias Gauntlet

A DEF CON Cloud Village CTF write-up, from a chatbot at the door of a fictional nightclub, through a Log4Shell RCE and a full AWS privilege-escalation chain, to a photo's GPS metadata

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Aug 15, 2026
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Some CTF challenges are puzzles. This one was a pilgrimage.

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