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[UPDATE] [Sept 22] Gateway Images
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dtg71
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 		OK, I may have found something ... Idea


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I worked a bit with the brightness and contrast on the cap1 photo, and thought I saw some letters. I rotated it back into it's original upside-down position, and found the following letters: LBX ... not sure what that means, but check it out...

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:39 pm
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TPrime
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dtg71 wrote:
OK, I may have found something ... Idea


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

I worked a bit with the brightness and contrast on the cap1 photo, and thought I saw some letters. I rotated it back into it's original upside-down position, and found the following letters: LBX ... not sure what that means, but check it out...


I think that might be just water runoff. Look at the image in the right-side-up orientation, and there's similar marking on the wall above it, where it would run down the wall, onto the ledge, and then down where you've marked. Might just be a Virgin Mary illusion.

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Abraxas
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Well, now I see it's quite easy. Thanks for the lesson! Wink
Regarding passwords, I'd suggest something different than 080586 for other pics. Not sure if there was a hint towards which password must be used or if it was intended to be brute-forced. It's hard to analyse the context now that the pages have been (temporarily?) removed. Unless you actually search the forum, which I might do some time later.

@dtg
I can't play around with the pic just now, but there are 8 letters pointing at various places within the picture and they look like a-h to me...
Perhaps the according legend for this is found later on.

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Delusional
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 		There's a new link in the gateway directory. This leads HERE, which partially explains the four new images.

[EDIT]: Notice this passage
vaporlofts wrote:
as R&D continues to examine evidence gathered from this date it becomes more apparent that potential information leakage to the public has occurred.


Now i just noticed the wiki has been removed. But i found this in the source
Code:
<!-- Page REMOVED (AUTHENTICATION CODE: "aiprs") -->
I'm not sure what that means right now.

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mastrrob
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 		in the image directory can someone explain the sa2b.jpg photo. In the directory it shows that its 102k, but when you save the picture it saves as a .bmp with a size of 58k.

probably a stupid question but im curious.

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shylilembrace
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mastrrob wrote:
in the image directory can someone explain the sa2b.jpg photo. In the directory it shows that its 102k, but when you save the picture it saves as a .bmp with a size of 58k.

probably a stupid question but im curious.
diffrent extensions have diffrent filesizes even with the same picture sometimes though i thought the .bmp was usually bigger.

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mastrrob
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 		yeah i understand that .bmp are usually a larger filesize than most other extensions, but what i dont understand is why when you save the file (sa2b.JPG) does it want to save as a .bmp.

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pantingpants
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 		add1.html
I checked the source code on the add1.html page and found this.

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The ALT text for the four images, in order, reads:
CAPTURE
RETAIN
ANALYZE
INCORPORATE


Maybe nothing, but definitely placed there with some purpose, as a reference for VL employees perhaps?

Also, the image descriptions seem to show some significance in the date July 7 2005. There is an entry on that date in the point_system livejournal which seems to have some significance as well, Anne perhaps experiencing some sensations due to the events of that evening, captured in sa2a.jpg. (Also - her entry is 5793.html - which I think was discussed in the big thread as being possibly significant.)

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rowan
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mastrrob wrote:
in the image directory can someone explain the sa2b.jpg photo. In the directory it shows that its 102k, but when you save the picture it saves as a .bmp with a size of 58k.

probably a stupid question but im curious.
Lemme guess, you're using IE?

It's a known problem with IE, mostly to do with your cache being full. I had a lot of problems with it during ILB, when I couldn't download corrupted pictures as jpg/gif (and Firefox wouldn't display them at all). If clearing your cache doesn't fix the problem (at least temporarily), try downloading the pictures directly (you can always write a temp webpage so you can do a save-as from a link) or use Firefox and get the pictures that way.
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