picoCTF : 2warm | Teaching a Human to Count Like a Computer

My CTF journey continued with another "dangerous" hacking challenge from picoCTF 2019 called 2warm. The mission? Convert: 42 (base 10) to: binary (base 2) Yes, after years of using computers, I finally had to sit down and politely explain to a computer that humans don't naturally count like machines. Apparently, using numbers like 42 is not enough. The computer wants its beloved 0s and 1s. 🙃 The…