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tags: misc | hist
The faculty of PWN history put a quiz online. It involves several important characters of fiction, technology, business and music. Watch the video and then name the protagonists here.
The link contains a form with 9 pictures and ask you to enter the name of the person/thing in each image.
This is the less tecnical task of the CFT and we managed to solve it with some knowledge and lots, lots of googling (actually a lot of duckducking). This is how we got each image:
We knew from the video he's Claude Shannon but inserting the word Shannon gives Invalid result. So after some looking in his wiki page we found this photo representing almost the same rat, named "Theseus Maze by Claude Shannon". So the correct word to insert was Theseus.
It's something about Macintosh so guessing Jobs was enough.
No idea who he is, but in the video he is called "dr Wiesner" by the other man.
He's the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.
He's Bill Gates
No idea what this is, we didn't managed to solve this.
Searching some of the phrases he says in the video I found his name - Selfridge - in a paper titled Towards an Ethical Framework for Strong AI
It's HAL9000
Again no idea who they are, just found the solution using shazam.
Once 8 of the 9 inputs are correct the flag is printed out and it contains an amazing easter egg: flag{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycx9hFGHog#Y0u_d0_kn0w_h1st0ry}
