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GLASSHEADS, pt. 1 Cover Challenge

This challenge can be found on the cover of issue 8. Spot the vertical text on the right of the page.

The Base

This looks like Base64 encoding, though putting the text through a base64 decoder gives us undecipherable data.

Looking through the "From BaseXX" decoders in CyberChef we can see there are a lot of flavors of this scheme: Base32, Base45, Base58...

Trying a few of them out, we get a valid URL with the "From Base32" decoder.

Giving the text to the "Magic" recipe from CyberChef also gives us this result.

The URL points to a page containing a flag.