Time Machine

Published: April 3, 2024Updated: December 9, 2025

Description

What was I last working on? I remember writing a note to help me remember...

Download the challenge zip, unzip it locally, then change into the drop-in directory.

Ensure git is installed so you can inspect the repository history.

wget https://artifacts.picoctf.net/c_titan/68/challenge.zip && \ unzip challenge.zip && \ cd drop-in/

Solution

This is a precursor to the Commitment Issues challenge.
  1. Step 1List commit history
    Run the command to get commit history where an earlier commit has the flag in the commit message.
    git log
  2. Step 2Read the flag
    Once you spot the commit with picoCTF{...}, copy the message to get the flag.

Flag

picoCTF{t1m3m@ch1n3_b476...}