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[Trailhead] Kevin Balderock
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jalava
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 		As requested here is what is did:

used: steghide extract Page.jpg

with password:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Windibank


Idea of password comes from double identity of Mr. Hosmer Angel in the book.

Inside is zip Hello, Kevin.zip with hex ascii coded message txt of same name:

Code:

0d0a2057652776650d0a20446f204265656e0d0a205765204e6f742057
61746368696e670d0a205261746865722041726520426520596f750d0a
205765205765204e6f74204166726169640d0a20446f2057696c6c2057
6f756c64205468650d0a2054656c6c204e6f7420436f6e74616374204c
696b6520456e656d790d0a2053696e204e6f2054727920596f7520546f
0d0a2020436572204f6e6520546f20536f6f6e20457874656e640d0a20
2020456c79202052656163682020546f0d0a2020202020542055732020
596f750d0a20202020202052202020416e0d0a20202020202020202020
496e7669746174696f6e


This is as ASCII is:


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We've
Do Been
We Not Watching
Rather Are Be You
We We Not Afraid
Do Will Would The
Tell Not Contact Like Enemy
Sin No Try You To
Cer One To Soon Extend
Ely Reach To
T Us You
R An
Invitation


And reordering cascading word order:
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We've Been Watching You
Do Not Be Afraid
We Are Not The Enemy
Rather We Would Like To Extend To You An Invitation
We Will Contact You Soon
Do Not Try To Reach Us
Tell No One
Sincerely T R
[/code]

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Staxx
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 		Awesome work Jalava.

Communication from Kevin has been thin on the ground recently, and it's been a while since 'TR' sent him that coded message. Seeing as Kevin seems concerned that 'they' are watching all his communications and is reluctant to give away information on public channels, I sent him a hex-coded message on Twitter asking:
Quote:
Have you got an invitation yet from TR?

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jasper
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 		Thanks for posting that solution.
Do you think someone (T R- the resistance?) is trying to communicate with Kevin- as opposed to using Kevin to communicate with us? Or someone wants to tell Kevin something, and knows enough about Kevin's internet use to try to enlist our help when Kevin didn't quite understand the message? Or it's all Kevin, trying to lay a false trail for the sniffs?

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Morgensterne
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 		wow
y'all are doing an AWESOMEE job.. thanks for destegging that.. yeah I too am wary about downloading weird programs onto my computer, and am glad for your hard work and sharing with us the results.

If this is all Kevin doing all this... dude has WAY too much time on his hands. LOL I hope we get that password for MashiMisho soon.

Morgensterne

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jasper
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 		Twitter from Kevin to ask who TR is.

I tried to send him your findings this way http://img50.yfrog.com/i/redwl.jpg/

PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:31 pm
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Staxx
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 		Kevin's latest tweet reads:
Quote:
Who is TR?


For someone who is worried about having his communications intercepted and scrutinised, he sure has selectively loose lips.

I sent him another hex coded tweet making him aware of the hidden message within page.jpg at drop.io/kindplaces. Maybe he has yet to figure it out himself, meaning that all the clues dropped in drop.io and the twitter avatar changes etc have been carried out by TR, and Kevin is an ignorant stooge in all this.
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jasper
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Staxx wrote:
Kevin's latest tweet reads:
Quote:
Who is TR?


For someone who is worried about having his communications intercepted and scrutinised, he sure has selectively loose lips.

I sent him another hex coded tweet making him aware of the hidden message within page.jpg at drop.io/kindplaces. Maybe he has yet to figure it out himself, meaning that all the clues dropped in drop.io and the twitter avatar changes etc have been carried out by TR, and Kevin is an ignorant stooge in all this.


He is an ignorant stooge, or he's trying his best to make the "sniffs" think so.

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Staxx
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jasper wrote:
I tried to send him your findings this way http://img50.yfrog.com/i/redwl.jpg/


I've been messing around with this in Photoshop for 30 mins and can't work out how you've encoded the message. Found 4 'tiles' containing variations of pixelated noise. Tried cutting them out and overlaying them..... can't see anything apart from this kind of thing. Please enlighten me as to how you hid it... I'm a total beginner to stuff like this! Thanks.
redwlstumped.jpg
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:01 pm
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jasper
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 		Based on the process I used to find the text in Kevin's blue image, I put the text in blue on a different blue background and changed the color levels until it was hard to see. I threw some noise in it and copied kevin's image into it a few times, then inverted it to make it red. Crying or Very sad maybe it can't be reversed?

ETA: I tried one that is just disguised with changes in the color balance. http://img238.yfrog.com/i/yellowm.jpg/ Kevin's twitter picture is back to green grass now, btw.

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amandel
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 		Mega THX, jalava. Was there ever a rationale given for the hidden msg in the Static Youtube vid which has been removed?

Quote:
"read," "write," "random," "buffered," "sequential," "signal,"

And all the images with the exception of "page.jpg" have been removed from drop.io
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jalava
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amandel wrote:
Mega THX, jalava. Was there ever a rationale given for the hidden msg in the Static Youtube vid which has been removed?
Quote:
"read," "write," "random," "buffered," "sequential," "signal,"



Well all words refer to I/O access so yeah, it was subtle hint.

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jalava
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 		Wait the text says that we've been watching you for a while. Twitter following? Kevin has 43 followers, someone of them could be TR?

My own idea would be Locard1910, which is reference to Sherlock Holmes as Edmond Locard was Sherlock Holmes of France. Also has no tweets.

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locard
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 		Embarassed no that's me I am also trying to find out what's happening to Kevin!

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jasper
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 		Very Happy I think "watching" might be more literal. T R are probably the window peeper and trash digger Kevin will probably deny ever having mentioned.

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jalava
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 		New file is at drop.io, video clip this time.

Message is basically: Await Further Instructions

TR is The Resistance.

Video seems to zooming at the Easter Isles. There is nothing much else out there.

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