Samuel Writeup
Sdctf 2022
Solved by : Avantika(iamavu) and Starry-Lord
We have a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDGVF1fK1cA. We can see a blurry video, with a beacon going on and off in the night, with what seems like cable-cars or planes in the distance. Short light and long lights seemed like morse code. Here’s the decoded morse.
WHWHWHGODWROUGHT
https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/what-hath-god-wrought
According to the link, Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph in 1844 with the sentence “what had God wrought”.
So we are looking for a beacon that sends the message in morse code, and I found this https://sculpturemagazine.art/mixed-messages-mark-bradfords-what-hath-god-wrought/
Avantika then found the location for this place on Google maps. https://www.google.com/maps/place/What+Hath+God+Wrought/@32.8752134,-117.2429636,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80dc07e0d30e81a7:0x69087278617d6b1d!8m2!3d32.8752134!4d-117.2407749
sdctf{32.875,-117.240}