https://gabefork.github.io/Recent content on Gabriel FordHugoenSun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:13 -0400https://gabefork.github.io/posts/umassctf-2026/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:13 -0400https://gabefork.github.io/posts/umassctf-2026/<p>Another year, another UMassCTF. I wrote three OSINT challenges this year, aiming to pick up the harder challenges so my friends could write easier ones. That turned out rather the opposite (ha!), but nonetheless I am quite happy with how my challenges turned out and the general response to them. Next year, given the advent of AI agents (and a general distaste for them from myself), the challenges are going to have to go up a notch yet again.</p>https://gabefork.github.io/posts/umassctf-2025/Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:46:20 -0400https://gabefork.github.io/posts/umassctf-2025/<p>Now that UMassCTF 2025 is over, I think it&rsquo;s time to explain myself. It was my first time writing CTF challenges, and I think I did a solid job. I went in wanting to write challenges that were:</p> <ul> <li>Interesting and made you think a bit</li> <li>Couldn&rsquo;t be easily reversed image searched (since it&rsquo;s more fun when you have to work for the answer)</li> </ul> <p>I wasn&rsquo;t able to write as many challenges as I wanted, mainly due to a lack of time in the weeks leading up to the CTF. The challenges I did write were the best of the ideas that I had. Without further ado, let&rsquo;s get into it.</p>