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MrToasty
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 		New bulletin, new PDF:
https://waypointprod.blob.core.windows.net/blogfilestore/storage/blogs/headlines/2012/11/2/04_provenance.pdf
(Link was in an ALT tag)
Have another look, Section 3 just showed up well after posting.
New page here:
http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/9c7d42b8-98d4-493f-baf9-10ebec934c09/alert.html
New data.png there with visible parts of a glyph...
Whole lot of IGNORE comments in the new page too.
And some base64:
Code:
TVRoZAAAAAYAAAABA8BNVHJrAAAAbQD/IAEAAP8DFS8vQ0xBU1NJRklFRC8vRT1tYzMvLwDAWwCQNECWQIA0AACQNkCHQIA2AACQN0CHQIA3AACQNkCHQIA2AACQOUCHQIA5AACQN0CHQIA3AACQNkCWQIA2AACQNECeAIA0AAD/LwA=


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Rusty23
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MrToasty wrote:
New bulletin, new PDF:
https://waypointprod.blob.core.windows.net/blogfilestore/storage/blogs/headlines/2012/11/2/04_provenance.pdf
(Link was in an ALT tag)
Have another look, Section 3 just showed up well after posting.
New page here:
http://download.halowaypoint.com/content/waypoint/assets/images/9c7d42b8-98d4-493f-baf9-10ebec934c09/alert.html
New data.png there with visible parts of a glyph...

Quote:
/START FILE/
//CLASSIFIED/
//ALERT: RETURN FROM BASE-LXIV IMMEDIATELY!/
//
//
//ADDITIONAL DATA RECOVERED:


Can anybody put the pieces together?

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MrToasty
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 		All there I think, just a little hard to see.

Glyph is Q, with 4 dots.

ETA - the base64 gives (so far):
Code:
MThd������ÀMTrk���m�ÿ ��ÿ//CLASSIFIED//E=mc3//�À[��4@�@�4���6@�@�6���7@�@�7���6@�@�6���9@�@�9���7@�@�7���6@�@�6���4@���4��ÿ/�


Looks like maybe MIDI file header/chunk data?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:10 am
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MrToasty
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 		Finally got the damn midi.
halo.mid
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Filesize  131Bytes 
Downloaded  321 Time(s) 

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:09 am
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cultofrubik
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 		I really would love to know how you got to that midi file!!!

I had the Base64 part, but what did do next?

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MrToasty
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 		Converted the Base64 to hex, pasted that into a hex editor and saved off the file with a .mid extension.

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cultofrubik
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 		So you didn't actually get to the mp4 site directly?

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Rusty23
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 		What about this link?
//CLASSIFIED/

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MrToasty
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Rusty23 wrote:
What about this link?
//CLASSIFIED/

That link is now gone from the page.

ETA - I'm curious as to whether the lengths of the <IGNORE> lines is significant.

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Rusty23
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 		This has been posted after the /END FILE/



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MrToasty
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 		Which isn't so empty (noted elsewhere I think).
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Sharpsniper99
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 		Does anyone know of a way to access the waypoint terminal on iPhone? I won't be at a computer but would love to carry on with this arg through mobile browsing

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Rusty23
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Sharpsniper99 wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to access the waypoint terminal on iPhone? I won't be at a computer but would love to carry on with this arg through mobile browsing
First, login at HaloWaypoint.com. Then, head here.

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MrToasty
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 		OK, not sure if this gets us anywhere but here goes. In the attached plot I've counted number of characters in each line of the commented section. The very regularly spaced peaks are almost always 61 lines apart when broken into 3 groups and have 255 characters per line. The low numbers are ether alternating 6 and 7 or are 0 for small stretches. the highest peak is over 800, and the 3 peaks at the end are all 182.
Dunno
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Rusty23
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MrToasty wrote:
OK, not sure if this gets us anywhere but here goes. In the attached plot I've counted number of characters in each line of the commented section. The very regularly spaced peaks are almost always 61 lines apart when broken into 3 groups and have 255 characters per line. The low numbers are ether alternating 6 and 7 or are 0 for small stretches. the highest peak is over 800, and the 3 peaks at the end are all 182.
Dunno
Maybe a few of the numbers fill in the question marks.

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