I hear his has relevance to the show:
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Join me on my secure channel #what-the-fuck (the correct one) where we will discuss the details of the cyber espionage project...

Connection Information:
Server: irc.hackthissite.org
Port: 6667 Standard, 6697 SSL, 7000 SSL
Channel: #what-the-fuck

This challenge is relatively easy

Thanks, what do you guys think about doing something like existing wargames and/or programming challenges?
Something like live Picoctf, Over the Wire, Project Euler, etc...

I'm thinking of streaming a lecture on twitch. Let me know what you guys think, and also your ideas on the subject of choice (assuming you are interested). I'm not the greatest at malware analysis and binary exploitation, but all ideas are welcome. Oh, and dates would be nice, a general idea on when...

This is good practice for a beginner. However, anyone that has a basic understanding in steganography will be able to pick up on this very quickly. Simply doing something like: cat image.png|strings and a quick glance shows the command information. Also, your file is even showing up as corrupted on ...

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In the case that you actually know what you are doing, I apologize. Check into sqlmap/sqlninja, however there are different types of SQLi such as blind, inferential, out of band, etc. Different tools will do the job better. These tools are open source, and I advise you to modify them, otherwise any ...

If I was to tell you to choose a language from that list, it would definitely be Python. You can alternatively look into some other macro's that are easy to program in for Excel. I know a friend who just got a gig doing Macro's for Excel and he has little programming experience, I can ask him what h...

Give us a list of languages you are familiar with, as you aren't too fancy of jumping into stuff you haven't used before.

I would argue that forum posts likely log IP addresses in most cases. It only seems logical. The IP surely will not be public, and can probably be viewed by mods and definitely by admins.