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A knowledge base written by its members: walkthroughs, research notes and writeups, from first steps to advanced tradecraft. Track your skills, form study teams, and practise together in CTFs when you want to.

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  • Writeups and walkthroughs

    Markdown with terminal output blocks and syntax highlighting. Group posts into series. Writeups tied to a live event stay hidden until it ends.

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  • Skill dossier

    A profile that shows what you can do: a skill radar, badges, rank, and everything you've published.

  • Study teams

    Form a team with people at your level or ahead of it. Captains, co-captains and reserves; open, invite-only or closed.

  • Practice events

    A board of upcoming CTFs. Register your team and get a private war room to claim challenges, track solves and share notes.

  • Invite codes

    Bring people in with codes that expire, cap their uses and can be revoked. Every redemption is logged.

  • Terminal palette

    Press Ctrl+K to navigate with cd, ls, search and join. A few commands aren't documented. Look around.

operator@exile: ~preview
ls writeups/ --tag web --level beginner
sqli-101.md idor-walkthrough.md jwt-none-alg.md csrf-basics.md
cat writeups/sqli-101.md | head -3
# SQL injection, from zero
by @n0va · series: web-foundations 1/6 · 14 min
whoami
operatorrank: initiatexp: 120webcrypto
cat writeups/live-event/pwn-3.md
[!] spoiler-locked until the event ends (02:14:09 left)

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