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Cornfield Chase

niteCTF 2025

Published: December 13, 2025

Last Updated: December 17, 2025

Initial Analysis

Looking around, I spotted a power pole with a label: Power pole label

Step 1

A simple google image search tells you that these are common utility poles in Taiwan.

Then, I found this reddit post, “A map I made to help with Taiwan power pole codes.”, mentioning an even more detailed post on Taiwan

Taiwan power pole map

Step 2

Using this, the label I found must be in the N section, 4% eastward and 89% northward. However, since the CTF requires the location to be within 250m of the actual place, I needed to be more precise. The above article had a link to another website with a script to convert Taiwan power pole labels to the exact (almost) coordinates. Taiwan power company grid

Being the script kiddie I am, I downloaded the file and ran the script on the target label, getting the coordinates of 23.4535, 120.2579 Script output coordinates Final location verification

Flag

Flag: nite{1'v3_b33n_w41t1ng_f0r_y0u_4t_cape_no._7}

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