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clalonde · Boot Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 39

[SOLVED] utilitysixsix.swf {SD4/Miscellaneous}

**Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:21 pm

Diandra · Unfettered Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 390

Might as well post this, since you started it. Laughing

**Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:50 pm

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sixsix might be a reference to the upcoming Basel Art Fair which is mentioned explicitly, see http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=162404#162404
Just a thought ...
edit: by the way, where can I get these files? I've had a look at the wiki, but couldn't find the file, but I'm still trying to find my way around here so that I might have overlooked the file ...
Thanks!

**Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 6:37 pm

missphinx · Unfettered Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 395

**Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 9:18 pm

jlandgr

**Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 9:41 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

SD card files

**Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 9:42 pm

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Hello,
rereading through this thread, I decided to try the password with a capital A
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**Posted:** Sun May 29, 2005 2:19 pm

Kythen · Boot Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 22

Using Winzip 9 I get the same results: password seems ok, but "invalid compressed data". Very odd. I don't remember every running into that error before on a password protected zip. Could be corrupted, or maybe it's just dumb luck and "Autobahn" happens to trigger some wierd behavior when decrypting this file?

**Posted:** Sun May 29, 2005 5:51 pm

jlandgr

I think this isn't accidental, some checking programs show the ZIP as corrupted, but so far no luck with programs trying to automatically repair all this. This gets complicated by the fact that the file is a) encrypted and b) if I'm not much mistaken, different passwords for each file Sad

I'm doing some calculating and searches with a hex editor, there do indeed seem to be "errors" regardind file sizes and/or CRC-checksums, at least in some places, but would have to check further. Also, if somebody with more expertise could have a look, that would be great, but I'll try!

**Posted:** Sun May 29, 2005 5:57 pm

johnny5

SOLVED.

Base 36 is alphadecimal notation. Use the magic keyboard to type in "autobahn" and get the answer.

**Posted:** Mon May 30, 2005 2:55 am

Cookster

Cool - it's like a poor man's Ocean's Eleven

**Posted:** Mon May 30, 2005 3:28 am

jlandgr

Great job!
several oddities about the pictures:
first the interspersed German words,

page1.jpeg
DIE SICHERHEIT
DIE FASSADE
die Fassade
Extrazahlung
wankelm�tig
DER TUNNELBAU
(Bremen, German city, not sure if relevant here)

A striked-through name:
Andreas N. also known as "El Braze"
Hand-written, a "clock-watcher "BOSS" job is mentioned", possibly BOSS as a Viginere key on documents containing times (of rounds of guards etc.), see also rest of handwritten note?
whe
then the capitilized English words: NOT SUITABLE FOR JOB
BOSS

page2.jpeg
Kopf
mann
DER EINBRECHER
(Schweiz, used close to Bern, Schweiz is German for Switzerland, not sure if relevant)
mann (once again)
ausser Uebung
Sehr besonnen

Page3.jpeg:
DIE COMPUTEREINDRINGLINGE

and finally a number (hexadecimal? base 36? who knows?) that has been striked through:
B33123B0B (this could also be "leet" for "beelzebob/BEELZEBOB", closely related to "beelzebub/Beelzebub", a German word for the devil, so maybe another clue for a password?
A comment says "REVISED 28/2 DEAD"
In connection with him, the Chinese "PX3893" database is mentioned and cryptology

I wonder if all these hold yet more clues?

So, maybe all this is just background/red herrings, maybe further hints to passwords etc.

**Posted:** Mon May 30, 2005 5:23 am

SMG3er · Veteran Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

**Posted:** Mon May 30, 2005 2:24 pm