Buckeye Billy Blabbin’
Buckeye Billy Blabbin'
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byuctf{t@lk_0sinty_t0_m3}
Buckeye Billy discovered social media. And probably posts too much. Try to see
what you can find. for this problem and others! Flag will be completely
visible once solved! You will see byuctf{}.
Step 0 is to find his social media account, which we did by searching “Buckeye Billy” on Twitter:
We scoured his Twitter account on the Wayback Machine for it to no avail (and even found some deleted stuff from a previous internal CTF).
I slowly began to despise him… that Buckeye Billy. That stupid, perfectly circular nuthead with the even stupider BYU sombrero. We gave up on the challenge and I cried to the admin until he got annoyed and agreed to post a global hint:
the more billy tweeted about something, the more of a hint it might be. The flag is on his account someplace.
He tweeted a lot about song lyrics:
With not enough to eat
Who am I, to be blind pretending not to see their needs?
A summer’s disregard
A broken bottle top
And a one man’s soul
They follow each other on the wind ya know
’Cause they got nowhere to go
That’s why I want you to know
I’m starting with the …
Oh, are you some kind of magic mirror
Come to show to me
God in time and space
I saw the outline of my Maker dancing backlit
By the rays of your incandescent light
I saw the figure of my Father shadow dancing
By the flames of your electric desire
Bring your tired
And bring your shame
Bring your guilt
And bring your pain
Don’t you know that’s not your name
You will always be much more to me
Every day I wrestle with the voices
That keep telling me I’m not right
But that’s alright
We decided it would be best to create a list of songs, in addition to counting occurrences of topics he discussed (for brainstorming purposes). We ended up with this list:
Hey, check that out in the Songs list. “3 Words”, “One Place”, “Greater”, “Ice Cream”? That sounds a lot like our previous challenge, “Buckeye Billy Birthday.” Looks like these were meant to be solved in tandem. By extension, “Man in the Mirror” and “Magic Mirror” were also hinted at, and we found a tweet of Billy posing in front of a mirror with a BYU hat. Uncoincidentally, this is the only mention of BYU in his entire profile (I believe):
My team used steganography tools on this image, and lo and behold:
The flag is byuctf{t@lk_0sinty_t0_m3}. Also an extremely guessy challenge. Screw you, Buckeye Billy. And Wyatt too, if you’re still reading.