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Kortheal
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Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
Gimme just a few minutes and I'll have the morse code done
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:05 am
JustLurking
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Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 80 Location: Santa Clara, CA
Nereus_Theophilus wrote:
FYI; new code on the site
Well, that's one's pretty easy
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's "the first", but backwards
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:06 am
ScotioBade
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Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 81
hi there remember me? ok i think those little dots and dashes are morse code. but thats just my idea
edit- nvm....
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:10 am
Nereus_Theophilus
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Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 456 Location: Canada
Re: hi there remember me?
ScotioBade wrote:
ok i think those little dots and dashes are morse code. but thats just my idea
edit- nvm....
Am I going blind? Where is the morse code?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:21 am
Cr0ybot
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Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Nereus_Theophilus wrote:
Am I going blind? Where is the morse code?
Directly under the bar code at the top of the PDF. It looks as if it is part of it, but it stands out if you zoom in.
_________________"Robots are inhuman. Human robots are in."
~Marvin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Reasons to be Miserable)
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:25 am
Kortheal
Boot
Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
It's gonna take some serious trying to get the code. The dots and dashes are of unequal lengths meaning that some "dashes" may in fact be two dots side by side...so I can't tell how to decode it.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:27 am
Nereus_Theophilus
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Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 456 Location: Canada
Cr0ybot wrote:
Nereus_Theophilus wrote:
Am I going blind? Where is the morse code?
Directly under the bar code at the top of the PDF. It looks as if it is part of it, but it stands out if you zoom in.
It does not look like morse to me. It would if the dots and dashes were the same size, but none of them are.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:28 am
Cr0ybot
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Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Kortheal wrote:
It's gonna take some serious trying to get the code. The dots and dashes are of unequal lengths meaning that some "dashes" may in fact be two dots side by side...so I can't tell how to decode it.
If it is a code at all; I was just pointing out that it appeared odd to me. I thought the bar code in general was odd...
_________________"Robots are inhuman. Human robots are in."
~Marvin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Reasons to be Miserable)
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:28 am
Kortheal
Boot
Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
anybody know how to interpret bar coding? I mean wouldn't we need a scanner?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:55 am
Satire
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Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Eugene/Portland/Seattle
I actually just ran it through a scanner and it couldn't come up with anything. I'm trying to decode it by hand now.
There might be more to it, though.
EDIT: It appears to be a Pharmacode, but I'm having some trouble decoding it.
EDIT2: Not a Pharmacode, see my later post for the translation.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:08 am
Last edited by Satire on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:49 am; edited 2 times in total
Kortheal
Boot
Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
alright.
Hey, anybody notice the pointilism "RED MONDAY" across the PDF? Not really important, but I thought it was kinda cool
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:09 am
Satire
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Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Eugene/Portland/Seattle
Barcode Decryption Less Interesting Than We Hoped Decoded the barcode at the top, it's not a Pharmacode (I got an accidental false positive). A much simpler linear barcode, just couldn't get a good read on it, apparently.
It translates to:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
10222007A KHALID BIN SULTAN REPORTC
So, a report on our subject with today's date. Not particularly earth-shattering, unfortunately.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:49 am
Kortheal
Boot
Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 53
Thanks Satire! Not really pertinent, but maybe barcode is a new way for JC to get in touch with us...
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:08 am
Satire
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Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Eugene/Portland/Seattle
Spelling Anyone catch that the phrase "Never Ever Read Everthing Under Saturn" has "everything" mis-spelled? It's incorrect in both the source code and in the email.
And any word on what "thefirst" means?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:10 am
JohnJimJoeBob
Boot
Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 56
"THEFIRST" is just another hint on the code to access the file.
I'm glad to hear that he agrees with us on Khan. We should start thinking about setting up smaller teams like he said, talking with one another about our specializations and such.
EDIT: Saw this in one of the links in the report.
"Before his fall, he had been lining up a fourth (so far undetected) big customer for his full-service bomb-building package."
Perhaps our good Saudi friend was Khan's fourth big customer.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:59 am
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