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Paintover.net new picture (Partial solve)
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AnthraX101
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Joined: 18 Mar 2003
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Paintover.net new picture (Partial solve)



What we got:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

ftp @ Aqua Police
FTP theaquapolis.com


The response:
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220 Remember, userSPLATdomain.tld -- caesar.


Do note this was not the first response we receved. It was first a basic banner. It changed a few min into the attempts.

What we need:

Username (in above form)
Password

AnthraX101

EDIT: Doh, spell it right. My bad

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:38 pm
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dmax
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Re: Paintover.net new picture (Partial solve)

AnthraX101 wrote:
What we got:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

ftp @ Aqua Police
FTP theaquapolice.com


The response:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
220 Remember, userSPLATdomain.tld -- caesar.


Do note this was not the first response we receved. It was first a basic banner. It changed a few min into the attempts.

What we need:

Username (in above form)
Password

AnthraX101


HAHAHA!
Too obvious now!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
not aqua police....aquapolis

Jebus, that's embarrassing.
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:41 pm
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dmax
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Hey - anthrax edited his post two mintues after mine to include aquapolis instead of aqua police. No fair. Harumph! Wink
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:49 pm
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Tonamel
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If the image is, in fact, telling us to search on Aquapolis (which seems likely at this junction) could the index card filed under F be for Fabrika, Mykonos Town 84600, their address?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:12 pm
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madamejanvier
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003
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Explanation of partial solution

Here's an explanation of how the FTP server was found, to augment AnthraX101's post.

The pic on paintover.net was changed today. The change was (1) that the symbol in the policeman's picture was made more clearly an "@" sign; and (2) that the "F", "T", and "P" tabs of the files were darkened.

The FTP tabs suggested an FTP server. When people tried to FTP to the IP address of the major sites, a positive response was received, so we knew an FTP server was running. Then, the standard 220 response was changed to the following: "220 Remember, userSPLATdomain.tld --caesar." Since it was changed AFTER people started trying to log in, we knew it was a further hint. Caesar was trying to tell us to log in using the form

ftp://user@domain.tld/

where user = user name and tld = top-level domain (this form will prompt for a password). This is equivalent to

(connect to) domain.tld
USER user

The picture at paintover.net has been interpreted as

sea urchins (water) = aqua
policeman (police) = polis

Therefore we believe we need to FTP (from the file tabs) as some user (unknown) at (from the @) theaquapolis.com (from water + police). Right now we're looking for the right username / password.

Hope this makes things more clear; please correct any mistakes.

-- madamejanvier

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:48 pm
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bolek
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Considering that the notice is a welcome message of FTP server targeted at human users, I believe that username itself should be in the format NAME@HOST.
E.g. the FTP session could start as:
Code:

USER pgairdenSPLATmetadex.net
PASS ************


Such login schemes are AFAIK quite common...

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 9:10 pm
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oli
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Location: London, UK

No luck with this so far, but in the hope of inspiring someone else, I would suggest username / password combinations of:

ica2 (eye see, et tu)
alice
wonderland
carelessly
caesar
julius
brutus

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:37 am
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DiGGySpiFF
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003
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Passwords list #1

This is what CidE and myself have come up with tonight for the FTP with no luck. Posting this as both a resource to use with other logon names and to see what has been tried but does not work. I would suggest that everyone start creating a list for tried logons and their PWs, it will make this less time consuming and save brain power for the puzzles yet to come. Wink

The logons tried:
bobbySPLATtheaquapolis.com

caesarSPLATtheaquapolis.com

The passwords tried for the above logons:

stol
s to l
lmnopqrs
srqponml
lost
lots
brutus
caesar
cassius
god
carelessly
caresellsy
5678
7865
5687
8765
snake
andyou
julius
shakespeare
keen
skel
neek
leks
otls
lkeseton
skeleton
carelesslystol
stolcarelessly
lostcarelessly
carelesslylost
notesekl
icu
timaeus
ic2
ica2

[edit] sorry fixed caesar names to be correct. Thanks Jestas[/edit]

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:06 am
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Jestas
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it's caesar, not ceasar .. and remember that there's even a char (don't know the exact ASCII code for it) that is a and e put together, that reads like the "e" in "mega(byte)", that could be used too, maybe

btw, first post here, I love this site,thanks to the PMs of this game for introducing me in the world of ARGs Smile

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:14 am
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Guest
Guest


Some people believe that shakespeare wasn't the original author so I tried variations of "Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford" with no results, long shot.


http://www.sobran.com/orphans.shtml

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:46 am
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Chewy-Fudge
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 16
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

@Jestas

You´re talking about an Æ or æ, a danish letter.
I don´t know the ascii code for it, but i´ll try and search for it....

[Edit]
Found it
Æ = 198
æ = 230
[/Edit]

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:08 am
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Demonico
Boot

Joined: 05 Oct 2003
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ASCII (HTML version) code for Æ is Æ / Æ - for æ it's æ / æ

- I don't think that will get you anywhere though.. Too much of a long shot.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:20 am
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MagicM
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003
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Discovered by someone in the IRC chat:

When using the following username, there is a slight delay after entering a password, signaling that maybe the username is actually valid:

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cassiusSPLATtheaquapolis.com


PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:38 am
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Chewy-Fudge
Boot

Joined: 06 Oct 2003
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

And it works with
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urchins

as pass...

(Posted in update at paintover.net thread...)

But the site is completly empty....

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:25 pm
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BrianEnigma
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1199
Location: Pacific Northwest

Moving from http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2603:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Using a command-line FTP client, you can do an "ls -lad" and see the current directory:
ncftp / > ls -lad
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 00:36 .
ncftp / >

It should be noted that the username/groupname was originally remove by ehsan This was probably not a clue, but a mistake.

The permissions bits ("--x") indicate that if there is a subdirectory, you should be able to change directory ("cd") to it, but it is not writable and will not show up on directory listings.


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