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A friend from the Vidyapeeth College coding club sends you a message, but it looks like alphabet soup. Nothing in it is readable.
The message is below, inside the code block. It is encoded with Base64, a common way to turn text into plain ASCII characters. Your task is to decode it back into readable text.
The decoded text is the inside of a flag. Every flag on this platform follows the same format from the Welcome challenge: the letters M X C, an opening curly brace, the secret words, and a closing curly brace. Wrap the decoded text that way and paste it into the Submit box.
The Researcher Toolkit on this site has a Base64 decoder. CyberChef, a free online tool, can do it too. Paste the string, decode it, and read what it says.
YmFzZTY0X2lzX25vdF9lbmNyeXB0aW9uXzZmYmM=
This challenge only. All names, addresses and data are fictional. Do not test any real system.
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