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We were originally given just the above sentence to track
down the mysterious Eric Liang. A quick recon of the CSAW page told us that he
was an NYU student, class of 2016. According to the CSAW bio he had competed in
the CTF the previous two years.
Initial searches showed that there were several Eric Liangs
who lived in New York and several others who were involved in computer science.
The correct Eric Liang, Eric Zhi Liang, was quickly identified but not before other
options were investigated. At least one Eric Liang seemed very excited by the
amount of traffic on his website. Utilizing google and various search
techniques, as well as a contact who attended NYU. We were able to track down a
significant amount of information on Eric, ranging from his various Steam
profiles to his wife’s name and address. However, none of these routes turned
up the flag.
After reviewing the challenge and deciding to backtrack
some, the archived CSAW pages from 2013 and 2014 were searched. On the team
listing for the 2014 competition, we searched for teams from NYU POLY. We then
quickly found the team that Eric played on as well as the flag.
