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Readme…

So this challenge title says Readme …

So let’s “read” it.

First i tried looking at the exif info

exiftool ch2.jpg 

ExifTool Version Number         : 10.40
File Name                       : ch2.jpg
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 54 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2017:12:02 16:53:37-05:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2017:12:02 16:53:54-05:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2017:12:02 16:53:47-05:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Resolution Unit                 : inches
X Resolution                    : 96
Y Resolution                    : 96
Image Width                     : 1024
Image Height                    : 768
Encoding Process                : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size                      : 1024x768
Megapixels                      : 0.786

And nothing. So let’s read it with strings.

strings ch2.jpg

...
1F)h
E.)h
CKHh
9?~/
PASS=HAHAHA

We can see what we were looking for at the end.