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Marl64
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Prisoner of Zion
The latest addition at Paintover was posted by scratch.
The Image is stored in a different directory to the rest.
Could this mean it is not part of the "caesar" sequence.
And with the in-fighting amongst the hackers, are the paintover posts going to continue?
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:38 pm
Azathoth666
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Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 321 Location: OZ-tralia
This is probably more [spec] than [puzzle], but given the... umm, social dynamic... we've seen of the hacker group recently I reckon they'll keep coming... either with scratch at the head, or a clean-conscience Ceasar spilling the beans ("friends, romans, countrymen" style) and bouncing back.
I think scratch broke a bit of a taboo by posting to metacortechs... and calling a meeting with no visible agenda: everyone was a little bit reluctant to be there, more wary than really inquisitive. Personally, I think scratch is on the outer and may leave after this... either that or he and a few others (ypt and maybe graffle) might form a super league of sorts. I think texel will stay loyal to ceasar though... the others I can't comment on. Especially not Random. I don't wanna know what that dude is smoking.
Probably the same stuff as Wongmo...
Anyway, reading back though this (and don;t ask me why) the idea that Beth is Scratch just popped into my head. I know. It doesn't make sense.
gAH.
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:47 pm
XtRaVa
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 565 Location: Portsmouth, England
I think paintover will still have pics, but whether or not caesar will continue to post them is the question...we have seen that the rest of the hackers have sort of kicked him out...an act of mutiny, and as we know...caesar does get "stabbed in the back".
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:17 am
WedgeGold
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 229 Location: East Coast
Decimal/Ascii Here's a go at it.
I think what is relavant is the file name. Each file name is obviously a Binary number that can be converted into a Decimal Number.
I think that the filemakes could be spelling a word. But we need to figure out how the numbers line up with the alphabet.
Shall we roll with it?
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:37 am
vanman0254
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Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 22
could that match up with the idea of Random's generator?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:47 pm
Worker
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233
If it does spell out a word, it would be a word that does not use the same letter twice (since you can't use the same filename twice)...
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:20 pm
Marl64
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Prisoner of Zion
vanman0254 wrote:
could that match up with the idea of Random's generator?
Worker wrote:
If it does spell out a word, it would be a word that does not use the same letter twice (since you can't use the same filename twice)...
Combining these ideas, it could provide a unique key for random's responses in the corresponding conversation.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:26 pm
XtRaVa
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Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 565 Location: Portsmouth, England
(quote bpl: does the sequence 1 3 4 15 25 26 bring something up to anyone?
The name of the images posted at paintover suggest binary code, and sorted by day of posting and converted to hex they result on this sequence. Hope it's useful for someone)
hex? erm...i thought thats their denary form, i was under the understanding hexidecimal and denary were two different things, denary is base 10 isnt it? and thats what those numbers ^ there are, denary forms of the binary...anyway just thinkin out loud, might be wrong.
ive looked at the numbers now and again, but cant see any particular pattern...not prime numbers, i cant think of anything they might relate to >.< im really not sure they mean anything at the moment.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:23 pm
Marl64
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Prisoner of Zion
where did this come from?
Quote:
1 3 4 15 25 26 ... and sorted by day of posting and converted to hex they result on this sequence.
These are;
a) not sorted by date order
b) not hex
You can find a complete list (in date order, with Binary, Denary and Hex) at the start of this thread.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:45 pm
WedgeGold
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 229 Location: East Coast
Hmmmm We have already converted the file names to Decimal.
1 4 9 15 3 26 (assuming 25 was just a duplicate or more of the message)
Add 64 to each number and covert to ascii.
65 68 73 80 68 94
A D I O C Z
Let's rearange: ZODIAC
Um... Is this the right track. What do you think? Get's me horny.
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MetaUrchins
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:09 pm
Marl64
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Prisoner of Zion
Re: Hmmmm
Nice However I think you've got some typo's in there (65 68 73 79 67 90 ) since the ASCII was OK.
But since you started the idea, how about this. Putting 25 back in the sequence and adding another step?
01 => 65 = A
04 => 68 = D
09 => 73 = I
25 => 89 = Y
15 => 79 = O
03 => 67 = C
26 => 90 = Z
ADIYOCZ Rot-5 is "FINDTHE"
But now we need a few more pics to test the theory.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:26 pm
Giskard
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 2066 Location: Chicago
Wow, now that sounds interesting... I guess it will take a LOT more pictures to mean something, but this really could be the way to go...
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:37 pm
illuminati_dk
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Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Denmark
Re: Hmmmm
Marl64 wrote:
Nice However I think you've got some typo's in there (65 68 73 79 67 90 ) since the ASCII was OK.
But since you started the idea, how about this. Putting 25 back in the sequence and adding another step?
01 => 65 = A
04 => 68 = D
09 => 73 = I
25 => 89 = Y
15 => 79 = O
03 => 67 = C
26 => 90 = Z
ADIYOCZ Rot-5 is "FINDTHE"
But now we need a few more pics to test the theory.
Hey this sounds like something but what are we supossed to find will be the next big question
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:55 pm
WedgeGold
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 229 Location: East Coast
Re: Hmmmm
Marl64 wrote:
Nice However I think you've got some typo's in there (65 68 73 79 67 90 ) since the ASCII was OK.
DER! Long day at work. Brain hurts.
I like the FINDTHE. That has to be the next step. [rhetorical]So then how many more pictures? [/rhetorical]
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MetaUrchins
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:16 pm
[TrIpLe]
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Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 22
Go here for what I want to post, can't be bothered typing it out again:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=24698#24698
Just an addition to the "FINDTHE" theory.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:38 am
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