# Medium > These challenges are not too hard, but also not too easy. Sometimes they provide instructions on how to start. ## Socks to be you ### The story so far > Our friendly IT guy John has set up a hidden service to control his VM's. > The only problem is that his rival in the company, Dave, kind of wants to screw John over. > This is not an issue for John, he is quite capable with coding and knows exactly which commands to use. > This is quite useful when he wants to hide the commands from Dave. > Dave did however figure out where the server is hosted: [johndoor.voidcorp.nl](https://johndoor.voidcorp.nl)! > Now Dave wants to find John's password to really screw him over. > He knows John so it probably isn't hidden too well... ### Your mission 1. Hack into the server 2. Read the hidden password (format=`flag{xxx}`) 3. ## Finally Getting closer to being considered a master, but you'll have to get the rank [here](/hard)!