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Blah · Boot Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 39

Melissa wants her crew to bring cameras?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:23 pm

Trynian · Veteran Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 146

The exact quote:

**Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:27 pm

thebruce

I'm willing to bet that it's another form of field test... in other words, somehow the people answering phones will be required to take a picture, maybe of something Melissa describes, then the picture will be required to be passed on. To whom? Don't know... but very likely someone will have to send the picture to Melissa - either a non-axon hunter, or maybe there's need to be something in the picture that the next live answerer will need to know to tell Melissa in order to unlock the axon. In other words, a visual 'passcode' - person 1 takes the picture, coordinate so that either the next live answerer can pass on the 'code', or someone else with internet access passes the image on the Melissa in order to unlock the clip.

As for Sleeping Princess, she didn't ask for anything in particular, just a hidden image, like she gives us, so that she knows we're still her friends and can trust us.

I vote for an image of a red balloon inserted (binarically, not steganographically) into at least one of the 'crew' axon photos sent to Melissa. Although, somehow we'd have to send the original and the altered versions of the photos... what excuse would we use to tell Melissa to ignore that suspiciousness of sending a picture twice? hm...

problem quite interesting

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:10 am

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twofivefour · Boot Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 10

Just a suggestion... send the file with the insert first, then wait a few minutes and send the unaltered file, with a message attached about "corrupted images" and "unreliable technology".

Either that, or different individuals send different versions of the images, "just to make sure they get through".

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:57 am

Blah · Boot Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 39

Very interesting, Bruce.

People have been pretty quick to assume the Op will want pictures of her crew to plaster on the 404 page just like samples of their singing abilities. But even if that is the case, I suspect there will be some added twist.

And unfortunately, SP doesn't normally give immediate responses when we interact with her.. and that will make fulfilling her ambiguous request all the more difficult.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:58 am

Phaedra

Cameras

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:38 pm

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Balloons

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:18 pm

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You could always print up and cut out a stencil then paint it on the balloon using that. Would be easier than getting any kind of label to stick.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:45 pm

ariock

Paint!

**Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:51 am

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gilada · Veteran Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 73

just cause I'm lazy and haven't really read the thread...

has anyone thought, what if we're sending her images (via a system introduced to us on Tuesday) and SHE'S altering them and sending them back / posting them, for us to find differences in.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:48 pm

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Re: Paint!

**Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:06 am

jellyfish_green

1) Felt-tipped markers? Attempting to draw HitsHerMark's cafepress bee?
2) Although balloons are great for static, I'm not sure if window stickers and balloons would work together. Maybe if you charged the balloon on your sweater first, and the sticker was neutrally charged.
3) Which email is Melissa reading? Would it make sense to send embedded text/URLs to the SP/hotmail account and the crew photos to the gmail account, and never the twain shall meet?

**Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:14 am

johnny5

A couple of things:
1. The first "challenge" was to make up a passphrase. Perhaps this week's challenge will be to describe a member of the crew from the group photo.
E.g. "What color shirt is Lt. Weephun wearing" or " Is hitshermark smiling?"
To do this, she would need access to the photos, so they would have to be emailed to her with some sort of passcode in the subject to differentiate them from all the "OMGWTFBBQ Dana is H07777!!111!" types of messages.

2. Why can't we use stego to send the pictures to the SP. We send the pic to Melissa in Dana's email, then the stego password to SP at the ladybee777 email.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:07 am

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Passphrases are one thing, but this new round, depending on the challenge given us, requires a certain amount of technology that is a luxury for many, many people.

I have as little idea as anyone how this is all going to play out tomorrow, but I feel sort of uncomfortable with the challenge, and slightly irritated. I hope to be proven completely irrational and overly worried about nothing. I just think about all the people who are spending bus fare to get to certain phones, and gas money, and who carve significant chunks of time out of their day to get to a payphone that may or may not be a live call (and may or may not even work!), and then, to have some insane A.I. hang up on them because they don't have Bluetooth or a handy laptop or a swank cellphone in order to process/complete/create a relay sequence. Y'know?

There, I said it.

That said, the coordination efforts I've seen by our very own beekeepers in the last few days have been pretty awesome!

**Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:01 am

jegger

**Posted:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:27 am