# **Obediant Cat**
I started learning about cybersecurity with the most beginner friendly CTF: PicoCTF. It is intended for high school students, but is appropriate for anyone wanting to start out. I started by trying not to use any hints whatsoever, so if I do use the provided hints I will add that here as well.
The first challenge in the PicoGym is worth only 5 points and introduces you to the webshell and linux environments. Before this, I knew a bit of linux, Python, and basic HTML. Opening up the challenge we see a download link. Instead of downloading the link onto my machine I decided to use` wget `on the webshell. Copy the URL, and then type wget URL once you've logged onto the webshell. Don't forget to use` Ctrl+Shift+V` while pasting. Otherwise... well you can try it the normal way and see why.
Webshell says the file named flag was installed. Cool now we can read it with:
```cat flag```
If you're new to Linux, cat is the command that reads the content of files. The flag should be visible now. Once I'm done with the files I like to delete them.` rm flag` should take care of that.