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[PUZZLE - SOLVED] President
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5th Earth
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[PUZZLE - SOLVED] President

Well, the image is faintly overlaid with a comouflage pattern, so I'm personally guessing it's another stegged pic. It might be a picture of Benjamin Harrison. The face looks similar to some pics I can find of him--the date of his term is appropriate for that quality of photograph--and, in reference to the "not my president" title of the page, he was elected with 100,000 fewer actual votes than his main competitor in the presidential race (Cleveland), but won based on electoral votes.

On the other hand I've just downloaded Camouflage and I'm not getting anywhere trying to desteg the pic. Hmm.
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Well, you could always try JPSEEK and StegDetect.
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5th Earth
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Tried JpSeek, got nothing. Can't find a working binary of Stegdetect--the one on the site is in a corrupted zip file, and no else is hosting one.
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Randomeis
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ok based on clues and and some photos we have found i'm quite sure we have a picture of an older jefferson davis. president of the confederate states of america. what we need to do with that information still is not clear.

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Perhaps something related to the Confederate States of America is the keyword to whatever's hidden in the file.
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Browsin
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More spec

It looks more like Robert E Lee to me....

BTW, Hayes/Tilden was another electoral college snafu (like Harrison/Cleveland)...but its definitely not either one of those two.

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G3N3SIS
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My history teacher said it looks like lee but he says he will check and see to be sure and I will get an answer tommorow.

I will post again around the same time the his answer.
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Jefferson Davis

The picture is of Jefferson Davis, I found the original here:

http://www.civilwar.si.edu/appomattox_davis_old.html
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Browsin
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spec - steg

So underneath the pic it says
Ask and ye shall recieve.

I did a quick quote search on Jefferson Davis and the one that came up is :
All we ask is to be let alone.

i tried alone as a command...perhaps its the passphrase for the steg, but i dont have a program for that.

Just a thought.

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Randomeis
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here is the full quote for those that want to play w/ it

We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honour and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.

'President Jefferson Davis - 29 April 1861'

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G3N3SIS
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here is a list of words that arent the pass.

Jefferson
Davis
jefferson
davis
jeffersondavis
j_davis
revolution
davis
civilwar
war civil
gettysburg
loser
slavery
south
flag
lee
surrender
jefferson
lincoln
grant
jackson
army
soilder
leader
bloody angle
harpers ferry
alone
lbelle
l_bell
l_belle
L_Belle
Lauren
Belle
Lauren Belle
lauren belle
laura
laura_belle
laura belle
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Viking
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You know the title is "Not My President"

therefore this may refer to a Yankee.

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GunslingerGulp
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I think the "It's not my president" was a clue stating that he wasn't an ex-president, but maybe you're right about the pass for the steg.
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jtreftz
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de-steg

not yankee or Yankee as password still scratching my head

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Well, it's not alone or Alone. Just ran both through JPSeek.

Any other ideas?
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