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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

[SITE] hole2.thehansofoundation.org (May 21)

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:29 am

sinyx

Awesome!

Perhaps this is a stegged image and the wierd file name is actually the password needed to extract some info from it? Probably won't be able to check this myself since I'm on a Mac and I'm not aware of any tools for Macs to do this sort of thing.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:41 am

Aya

wow, dante! Talk about using your head Cool

Needless to say that the filename is another clue Very Happy

wasn't the last time alvar hanso was seen was 2002?

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:46 am

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**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 1:56 am

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Jaina · Boot Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 17

What program do you use to desteg a pic???

Thanks!

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:00 am

Nadif · Unfettered Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 318 Location: Brazil

I use Camouflage. You can find it at
http://camouflage.unfiction.com/

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:03 am

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Jaina · Boot Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 17

Thanks again!

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:06 am

sinyx

Don't know if this will help with any of this, but I figure I'll throw it out there...

The Q9 method is an input method that uses only the number keys on a numeric keypad to input Chinese.

ALS can be a shortened term for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease," a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

Als is also is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. Alvar himself is Danish, right? Could he have hidden away there at some point?

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:24 am

Lucy · Decorated Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 163

What a great find!

After looking at the source text for the gif, my (admittedly very limited) knowledge of camoflaged images indicates that there is nothing stegged in this file. The title of the file might well be useful for something else though.

The image itself looks quite a bit like it might be a manipulated school/college yearbook photo.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:26 am

Zzedar · Veteran Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 107

The title looks sort of like one of the entries in a flash cookie. I tried adding it to my www.thehansofoundation.org cookie file with a hex editor, but nothing obvious happened when I visited www.thehansofoundation.org . It's possible I made a mistake adding it, since I don't really know that much about the format the cookies are stored in. It's also possible the change was a non-obvious one.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 3:03 am

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The picture looks pretty simple. Seems to only have two colors to it. Everything seems simple pixels - white or black, even when you super enlarge it. Changing contrast/lighting doesn't reveal anything.

The forehead hair looks wrong. The whitish shading made me wonder about lettering in it, but I don't really see anything.

I love how the web page has a favicon of the same picture.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 3:47 am

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Lucent · Veteran Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 95

Well hot diggity, someone else found it too! I was just getting home and re-aquainting myself with the latest clues and I tried (like you did) hole.thehansofoundation and anotherhole.thehansofoundation and secondhole.thehansofoundation and nothing worked out right.

And then hole2! Looks like I was about an hour and a half behind you in discovering it though. Now on to decyphering what this is all for Mad

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 5:38 am

Abraxas

Oh no, not again...I will be off in a few minutes...

I tried persephone.persephone. Laughing

But then I gave up already.

@zzedar
I think the Flash cookies take 8-character-names, but I'm really not sure.
Also, I don't think the 2002 is a coincidence, but maybe you can name the Flash stuff yourself, I wouldn't know about that.

It looks like there is writing at the top of the picture, but that could be just the effect of whatever was applied to that picture.
Question: Is it possible that the string works in some graphic editing tool and reverses what has been done to the picture?
Sounds quite unlikely. If so, it would only add some stuff that was erased from the gif, rather than transform it into a jpg for instance.

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 7:05 am

Obes

Q9 I have no idea on..

als2002 = Alvar Last Seen 2002

Can someone Q9 (the thing that makes the chinese symbols) the phrase 'als2002'? Perhaps that will trigger a 'decode' to the picture, or a clue to a password.

Also, perhaps this image needs to be overlaid to the image of the jacket? Since they seem similiar, and the jacket is missing part of a head, and this is missing most of a face......

Obes. Twisted Evil

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 8:37 am

Gus Raja

Can we at least somehow take this face and layer it over a good picture of Marvin Candle to prove whether or not it's him. I'm sure someone has this capability.

BTW, does that look like writing in his hair? It almost looks like "I'm out."

**Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 9:14 am