Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
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#2>I started playing CTFs in 2021
>and the old game is not coming back
For many people the CTF scene was already dead in 2021 because it had turned into something unrecognisable.
In reality it’s just different.
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#3Unrelated, but does anyone find this site incredibly hard to read?
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#4Unrelated, but does anyone find this site incredibly hard to read?
Bizarre font and poor contrast, yep.
The text itself being exceedingly long for no obvious reason doesn’t help.
Re: Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
#5>I started playing CTFs in 2021 >and the old game is not coming back For many people the CTF scene was already dead in 2021 because it had turned into something unrecognisable. In reality it’s just different.
Well, I had to google what CTF means (capture the flag, a hacking competition), so surely cannot judge here, but the text indicates that with AI some things are very different today:
"That makes open CTFs pay-to-win. The more tokens you can throw at a competition, the faster you can burn down the board. Specialised cybersecurity models like alias1 by Alias Robotics are becoming less relevant compared to general frontier LLMs. The competition is turning into "who can afford to run enough agents, with enough context, for long enough.""
Re: Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
#6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurit...
still has no mention of AI, but that will likely change as they increasingly dominate competition.
Re: Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
#7>I started playing CTFs in 2021 >and the old game is not coming back For many people the CTF scene was already dead in 2021 because it had turned into something unrecognisable. In reality it’s just different.
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#8My first ever was Stripe CTF in 2012 I think, I still wear the shirt I got (now super fainted) from passing some challenges.
I was a student in portugal and remember receiving the shirt for it and thinking, maybe those Americans aren't any better than me and I can compete at the same level.
I never got super into security but it gave me the confidence to play in the same field and lose the stupid aura I had that somehow "rich americans" would be better than me at everything because they had better universities or because of Hollywood or something.
Sad that another cool thing is lost to AI but I guess kids will learn in other ways.
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#9What is CTF? And why is the cyber security world filled with silly gaming references?
Re: Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
#10Unrelated, but does anyone find this site incredibly hard to read?
Bizarre font and poor contrast, yep. The text itself being exceedingly long for no obvious reason doesn’t help.
Poor contrast? White on black?
And if you think it was too long, what part would you have shortened? I never knew about the scene and found it interesting to read this personal take on it.