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picoCTF walkthroughs

Beginner-friendly challenge notes covering sockets, ASCII decoding, Unicode packing, and the first steps into practical security work.

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Reverse a picoCTF encoding challenge by unpacking two ASCII characters from each Unicode code point.

A beginner picoCTF walkthrough: connect with netcat, decode decimal ASCII, and automate the result with a small Python socket program.