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[UPDATE] leaked e-mail? - 16th November
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BrianEnigma
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donstobbart wrote:
My message for solving 049 - 052.
Just seems like gobbldeggok to me, got more of them but they are not exactly the same as this, but nearly.


[garbage characters]

Are you saying that there was the message prefix ""Congratulations, you've solved four Perplex City cards..." followed by the garbage characters, or that you got the garbage characters as a separate email with nothing else?

What mailer do you use? Is there a way to export the full message (including the complete headers like Received, Message-Id, and Content Type) to a file to attach to this thread? It's really hard to perform analysis without working on the actual bytes of the message (since it includes high-ASCII, which includes "unprintable" control characters that usually get stripped by copying, pasting, and posting in a message, it's hard to go by what you've pasted in the forums.) Plus, full headers will help us verify the "Received:" path to ensure that it's official and not from a spammer or prankster.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:52 pm
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donstobbart
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 		These were the messages exactly as I got them, was asking in the first place cos I didn't know whether it was a glitch coming into my pc. (I am using IE6) There was no prefixing statement Congratulations.....

Dont know much about computers, but in the properties for the message, this is what was in the details.

Return-Path: <solveteam@perplexcityacademy.com>
Received: from rly-xk06.mx.aol.com (rly-xk06.mail.aol.com [172.20.83.44]) by air-xk03.mail.aol.com (v108.32) with ESMTP id MAILINXK33-7344391ca634f; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:40:13 -0500
Received: from 242.67-19-175.reverse.theplanet.com (242.67-19-175.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.175.242]) by rly-xk06.mx.aol.com (v108.32) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXK66-7344391ca634f; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:40:03 -0500
Received: by 242.67-19-175.reverse.theplanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44)
id 1EiaGV-0000eC-TP
for stobbadaSPLATaol.com; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:29:35 +0000
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.01 (F2.73; A1.62; B3.05; Q3.03)
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:40:02 UT
To: stobbadaSPLATaol.com
From: solveteamSPLATperplexcityacademy.com
Subject: You've solved a set of four Perplex City Cards
Message-ID: <E1EiaGV-0000eC-TP@242.67-19-175.reverse.theplanet.com>
X-AOL-IP:


Don
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GasparLewis
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 		Hate to say this, but "reverse.theplanet.com" is apparently responsible for hitting sites, clogging bandwidth, and then spam-flooding; did a Google search on the name, and I suggest someone more knowledgable do the same before we regail this spastic output as an OOG glitch.

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Gibbet
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 		The "non-gobbldeggok" emails have very similar details, from reverse.theplanet.com.

Also not an expert in such things, so there may be differences.
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BrianEnigma
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donstobbart wrote:
There was no prefixing statement Congratulations.....
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-Type: text/plain

The Content-Transfer-Encoding kind of makes me scratch my head and wonder if there is a misconfigured something-or-other (mail program or mail server) out there. If the message was plaintext and not encoded and if it happened to have a length that's a multiple of three and if a BASE64 encoding header got accidentally got inserted, then your mail program may have tried "decoding" the plaintext (thinking it was BASE64) into binary garbage.

If this is the case (and it's based on conjecture and guesswork), then it would be theoretically probably possible to just run the binary through a BASE64 encoder to get plaintext, but you'd need a perfect copy of the binary (i.e. none of the nonprintable characters stripped out), and I have no idea how to do that in Outlook (which I presume you're using because of the "message properties" statement.)
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:15 pm
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Tufty
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 		I received another email today, I have checked through this thread and can't see it and unfortunately I don't have access to the Wiki from work to check.

So apologies if it's already in the Wiki, if not could someone out it in please. Thanks.

Quote:
From: name withheld
To: name withheld
Subject:
Date: 8 Jan. 2004 2.28am
It's not my fault. I simply mistook the contact. The contact gave the appropriate response to the feeder line and correctly completed the third element. I barely gave anything away before realising the error. She didn't appear suspicious. Contact correctly identified within two hours. I don't think this need go further up the line. Please do not refer to V.


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ReeKorl
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 		Performing a BASE64 decode on the first word in all of the messages, "Dear", results in the string "" - which also happens to be the first two characters in the gobbledegook stream you've got there. Looks like you're right on the mark Bri.

Although it's not identical to the actual message, when trying to encode the posted messages, we can get some legible text.

From what I can make of it, the messages are as follows:

1. 29 Sept 2005 - 7.32am
2. 9 Sept 2005 - 9.44am
3. 9 Sept 2005 - 9.40am
4. Not sure, it's completely scrambled, but it's also very short - only about three to four words long I think.
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 		From: Sanjean Adamek
To: Violet Kiteway, Scarlett Kiteway
Subject: Tea
Date: 10 June 2005 2.27pm

Your Aunty Annaliese and I feel it's far too long since we last saw you. Would you girls be free for tea tomorrow afternoon? Say 4pm?

Love,
Uncle Sanj

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Hunting4Treasure
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 		Now I'm getting gobbledygook email! Confused

#1:
x8N¢x+jۥjب̨[uߢze{'z{urv)ʋ朆"^Xze{{m֥:.޲oytƫvŞsޮ^(
.b'h"*.~ܢ{bubqb{hjZ+aʋiyǫ'yǝh+{jwkz۫li(qޗ$xW'ry7W
+rƝzlO4y~"׫^+iƝzf'뢾6뢶(br׫yثy^+ݢz讋_j֥rZ,xZ -'Kwl&N7Zrԅ6{]rݴ}֙qOʊװk,
Z؜V*j'i^

#2:
x8N¢x+jۥjب̨[uߢze{'z{urv)ʋ朆"^Xze{{m֥Í.޲oyuƫvŞsޮ^(
.b'h"*.~ܢ{bubqb{hjZ+aʋiyǫ'yǝh+{jwkz۫li(qޗ$xW'ry7W
+rƝzlO4y~"׫^+iƝzf'뢾6뢶(br׫yثy^+ݢz讋_j֥rZ,xZ蘫ǖXӡZ'.'+-NCj׻ImM9)Igzz-楗+hazI

#3:
x8N¢x+jۥjب̨[uߢze{'z{urv)ʋ朆"^Xze{{m֥Í.޲oyuƫvŞsޮ^(
.b'h"*.~ܢ{bubqb{hjZ+aʋiyǫ'yǝh+{jwkz۫li(qޗ$xW'ry7W
+rƝzlO4y~"׫^+iƝzf'뢾6뢶(br׫yثy^+ݢz讋_j֥rZ,xZXJװk$Ix{JyQx&zgڵy%N7f,*.'z0"Ƣt&x
lg)Ye-v)ןxyni^i^:"{m)!Ƨh(!'W().!xY[y+ylƬ˚

After I received the first one, I sent off this email:

Hey! Wink
I've read on the UnFiction Forum, that one other person received 4 of these 'gobbledygook' emails... Now me?
Is this a mistake, or are we supposed to decipher it? Razz
Thanks!
Becky
Hunting4Treasur(e)

I hope they reply! I'd hate to miss a really important 'leak', if it comes in this manner! Sad
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 		From: Aiko Entrescore
To: Von Lubick
Subject: Yellow
Date: 23 Sept. 2005 9.20am

OK. It was Caine.

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jamesi
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 		I know mine has already been mentioned, but for posterity's sake:

Quote:
f8080:xx95034
internal error academail
criticalerror 420
error-authconflict
error-redirect
error-handover
error-output
fatal-close

From: Caine Johansson
To: Garnet Reed
Subject: Morning after
Date: 9 Sept. 2005 9.42am

Still. Too. Loud.


For solving 105-108
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TeamErnsman
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 		this is what i got.... cmon guys these arent just leaked e-mails, there clues, its blatantly obvious, do keep an eye on the sender. intruiging



Dear TeamErnsman,

Congratulations, you've solved a set of four Perplex City cards. We've
rewarded you by doubling your points for each of the cards in the set.

Your Perplex Point total is now 953. You have solved 46 cards.

We in Perplex City would like to thank you for your continued dedication
to our cause. With your help, we are certain that the Receda Cube will be
found and returned safely.

Sincerely,
The Puzzle Scribe Team
Perplex City Academy

f8080:xx95034
internal error academail
criticalerror 420
error-authconflict
error-redirect
error-handover
error-output
fatal-close

From: Kurt McAllister
To: Von Lubik
Subject: Tonight
Date: 7 Sept. 2005 3.21pm

Hey - Anna said you weren't doing anything tonight. Want to come out with me and
Violet and a couple of her friends? There's a classic movie programme at
Ascendancy Point with lectures beforehand, then we'll probably grab some dinner.

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Muffin
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TeamErnsman wrote:
this is what i got.... cmon guys these arent just leaked e-mails, there clues, its blatantly obvious, do keep an eye on the sender. intruiging


Two sentences that are worthwhile thinking about...

These are leaked emails.

This is not a game.

M
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Scott
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 		Well, we seem to be about tapping out what we ae going to learn
fFrom these messages. the stories seem to be fFully told, to this
point. So, what do we do with the information we've gathered?

The stuff we now have on Caine should probably be tucked away
and sat on until we need is services (like say we might need him to
run a chore at a certain subway station, fFor instance.) we can pull
out our dosier on him and say "please do this .. it would be very
embarrassing fFor all of us if sente fFund out about certain gallery
painting activities, tristan." We can sit on those eggs fFor a while Smile

I was thinking about this business between sente and anna about
aiko. Like okay we know what they are discussing. Sente -- who
publicly seemed very cool about aiko's religious activities --
rat-finked all over her! so like, I'm thinking a nice email to violet
might be nice. something like "Look, this business with aiko .. I
know you dont fFeel all that well about being around her. but it
isn't your fFault at all. Your dad had a lot to do with all that. And
Garnet Reed stood up fFor her and helped her out, so if you wanted
to make good with her, you might talk to him some." or ..
something.

Lastly, [META: I'm wondering where we are going with all the
exposition about the uber-flirty tippy. Nice character development,
at any rate.]
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ER123456
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 		If you take a normal email message, save it then edit it with a text editor. You can add the lines

Quote:
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64


To the header area. Then if you save it and reopen it as an email - you get just the sort of strange message as discussed previously. Now the question is - how to reverse the process?

Question to donstobbart - did you examine the message source too? Logically if the message source is opened it should be the original message (before BASE64 decoding).

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