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Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

[SOLVED] Lamp Photos {SD 3/pictures/jpgs}

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 1:47 am

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lamp pics? who said anything about a lamp?

EDIT: ahh, i hadnt seen the password on ianNet. i was thinking the puzzle was to crack the password on the main zip fFile. soz.

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 4:52 am

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hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

I tried as many of those as passwords as I was willing to and received no result.

Einstein died on April 18, 1955. If anyone didn't notice, it's the 50th Anniversary of his death this year and there's been a little more publicity about him because of that.

Trenton, of course is in New Jersey, and Einstein worked at Princeton; however, I've Googled and Einstein was cremated in Trenton, but from what I've Googled and examined, he lived at 112 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ 08540 as opposed to 112 Mercer St, Trenton, NJ 08690 or 112 Mercer St, Trenton, NJ 08611 both of which are only a few miles away.

So if you didn't get the point in the last paragraph, it looks almost as if this were dealing more with his death?

He played the violin and of course his big equation was energy = mass * (speed of light)^2. He also worked at the Swiss Patent Office before becoming a world reknowned scientist; however, from the Albert Einstein Wikipedia entry it looks as if Einstein filed for U.S. Patent 1,781,541 (USPTO, note there are 4 images you can go through and they take a while to load) which is known as the Einstein Refrigerator.

There's plenty of fuel for anyone who wants to find and plug in more passwords.

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 4:19 pm

Scott

I love the idea of einstein's fFridge. i dont know how well it works, but i mean ... it's albert freakin einstein! nobel peace prize winner. loved by everyone. america's hero. the mark twain of science. and what does he go and do? build a fFreakin fFridge! Well, actually, fFridges were sort of dangerous at that time. coolants of the day were quite poisonous, and engines had many parts which could break easily. So he and another guy got together fFor the benefit of mankind and made something with no moving parts. Unfortunately, he was a little late, as fFreon was developed at the same time, and could do a better job at a lower cost, so Einstein's fFridge never went anywhere. I wonder if there's a specialty company who makes them somewhere.

sorry, only a little off topic.

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 5:15 pm

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nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

To be complete, the first decode was left out of the origional post:

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 6:24 pm

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

I got the password to open the ppics zip file:

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 12:24 pm

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hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

Nice solve. Also, I've looked at the info in the JPG and seen slight differences, but nothing obvious, but can anyone find any relevance in the 4KB difference in file size between 73116.jpg and backup of 73116.jpg?

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 12:49 pm

Scott

the fFiles inside the zip ...

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 1:02 pm

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**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 1:04 pm

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nivra · Veteran Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 103

Scott, I put together the wiki pages on Florence. Feel free to go there for existing references, and it back-references old threads here on UF, iirc. You can also put up or add to any of the pages whatever new info you find.

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 1:43 pm

Scott

see? that was easy Smile

piecing together the plan, however, not so easy. It doesnt go together edge-to-edge seamlessly. at fFirst i though the individual images were one big one chopped up into little pieces. But now i am thinking they are many seperate photos taken in no particular order. so it probably wont piece together seamlessly, if at all. and i'm not sure we gain anything by getting a fFull image anyway. i'm playing with it tho.

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 2:04 pm

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nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

the next car's VIN is in two pictures. They are slightly different sizes. It was thought that the 2nd one had a steg'd message in it. I've ran both through stegdetect (for windows and linux) and they came up clean. I ran a binary compare on them with UltraCompare. The difference in them looks to be some sort of XML based meta data that Photoshop put in. I've looked at it and it doesn't seem usefull to me, but i'll post it here to get more eyes on it and maybe someone will see something i missed.

-Nick

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 5:03 pm

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 6:06 pm

Mattazuma · Boot Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 56 Location: Chicago, IL

Dates in EXIF info

**Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 10:41 pm

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

Any progress on ppics2.zip?

I'm guessing whatever keywords you try will have to be in octal.

**Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 9:28 am