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[PUZZLE] October 9 pictures at paintover
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rotsac
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 		RSS index in http://www.paintover.net/_cpy/archives.html
http://www.paintover.net/_cpy/index.rdf

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 4:55 am
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Guest
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 		My interpetaton of the file cabinet picture..

It was a test

Grabbing Internet Files, a primer

A clue that changing the extention will reveale more of the file cabinet. The cabinet beeing a metaphor for a file system or a FTP server.

Fits nicely with the carelessly files.. it revealed alot more when the extentions was changed.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:23 am
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Guest
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 		The picture with the stars..

14 stars are marked with a red dot.

There is 14 carelessly files in the ftp.aquapolice.com server. The general consencus is that they are "hacker" tags, saying they were there.

So the picture is a tribute to the 14 hackers that made it there.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:25 am
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 		The red doted stars are a reference to a constallation. Virgo has 14 stars...

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:22 am
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zaphyr
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 		could the dots be connected to this map somehow?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:24 am
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nexx
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 		there appears to be stars/dots interlaced in the file cabnet image as well, although they could just be random parts of the image.

edit: the line / clumps are parts of the cabinet i couldnt be bothered filtering out :p
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:30 am
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Pollux Troy
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 		Humm... I know some of you have already get this, but the message is "follow the primes"

The name os the images are, in binary, 1, 4, 9, 25... Their squares are prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5... (ok, I know that one is not prime, I know...)So, if we follow the sequence, I bet whatever a have that the next file name will be 00110001.jpg, or 49.

I think we should start looking for something related with this number...

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:01 am
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Elrick
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 		strange comment by texel
i find this in the cabinet picture comments, don't know if it's fake, because everyone can post as texel in paintover comments

Quote:
0110001101100001011001010111001101100001011100100010110000100
0000111010001101000011001010010000001101110011011110110010001
1001010010000001101001011100110010000001101111011101100110010
1011100100110110001101111011000010110010001101001011011100110
0111001011000010000001100011011011110110111001110100011000010
1100011011101000010000001100010011100100111010101110100011101
010111001100100000011011110110111000100000010100000101101000101110

Posted by texel at October 9, 2003 07:42 AM

translated:
Quote:
caesar, the node is overloading, contact brutus on PZ.


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:05 am
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Elrick
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 		and
email used by the guy who post this msg is:
Quote:
tex-LSPLATpaintover.net


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:06 am
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Pollux Troy
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 		Re: strange comment by texel
Elrick wrote:
i find this in the cabinet picture comments, don't know if it's fake, because everyone can post as texel in paintover comments


Probably a fake...
Some jerk is trying to post misdirections...

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:13 am
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 		PoisonEye
I think Pollux is the first one here to realize that the "Grabbing Internet Files, a primer" could have a dual meaning. First, it leads you to the GIF file...second, it's saying prime numbers are used to grab internet files. Although that doesn't necessarily mean on paintover. Maybe the GIF leads you to a place where you use prime numbers to find files, similarly to carelessly.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:14 am
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Geinstein
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 		This text was hidden in the 00001001.gif file using steganography:

Quote:
Slight change in plans.
Second verse, same as the first.
The blind transit's been plugged to the oafs
Let's view it from the top
Blindly, still, but climb those stairs carefully
dub dub dub, hack and slash
You'll find the way!

-c.


Geinstein

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:34 am
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trip
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 		Dots and more dots
Just in case someone sees the relevance here (I don't) I thought I'd post this.

Here is a pic of the dots enhanced on the file image.

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/vceronca/dots.htm

It looks to me just like it is web dithering, but it is interesting that what looks like a greyscale image is really made up of a 32 color palette, including some interesting bright neon pink colors.

The second image on http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/vceronca/dots.htm (if you scroll down a little) is the red dots on the congrats image isolated. They still don't seem to mean much, but they look more deliberately placed, to me.

I was unable to overlay them and find any kind of matching pattern.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:44 am
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Guest
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 		The filing cabinet is a metaphor.
You're supposed to be looking in other draws.....

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:49 am
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ecwilder
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 		even if your a guest enter a name! i hate thee ominous clues half pointing somewhere..... Caesar??? the file cabinet is a metaphor!?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:51 am
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