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[UPDATE] Caine blog - Cracked! 30th june '06
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 		[UPDATE] Caine blog - Cracked! 30th june '06
http://www.theoozezone.com/archives/2006/06/cracked_1.html

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Nev doesn't have a great sense of humour. Irony, to him, means something metallic, and I don't think I've ever heard him crack a joke. He can, however, crack a mean code, and he sliced his way through through your flattened frequency message in no time. Even with the special diagraph.

For those of you who couldn't spare the time to decipher the whole thing, here's the plaintext version. I've added some punctuation.

Neville Clark: good day. This message is coming to you from Us On Earth. Caine is a nice bloke, but a bit thick. He has no idea what this message says. We implore you for your help. We will offer any possible assistance we can to aid your own causes, and we guarantee absolute discretion. We are working to discover the identity of a person in the City. While we would not begin to consider putting you in a position of danger, we think you might know more about the matter. Simply put, you are in a position of more information than we are. So anything you can tell us is absolutely helpful. Can you tell us where all the top-secret work is coming from? Who is handing out these jobs? Where is all the work going? We expect you won't be able to answer so directly, but anything you can tell us will be much more helpful than what we have now, which is very little. You should be able to return a message to us by way of Caine. He should have no difficulty getting something back to us in good order. Thank you so very very much Neville. You are doing terrific things, and we can't thank you enough.

Now, Nev found this very troubling. He was willing to believe that I was completely ignorant of the message's contents - a bit too willing, in my opinion - but he was still faced with the awkward issue of what to tell me. He opted for diplomacy.

"Caine, yes, the message. Come with me outside, outside the office, outside the department, perhaps even outside the Academy, yes, outside the Academy, not immediately outside but beyond its reach, if ever such a thing is possible, walls have ears - again, that's figurative, though if clocks can have hands, who can say?"

I suggested Fenlon's, and we slid into one of their booths at the back with a couple of cups of the black stuff.

"That message, Caine, the encrypted message you gave to me, yesterday, I think I deciphered it, I mean, I believe I did. I have. Where did you find it, if you found it, or even if someone else did?"

"It came through the link and was sorted through to my desk. I took a quick look at it and thought you'd be the best man to figure it out. Does it say who it's from?"

"Not specifically, no - in that the sender isn't named, though the intended recipient, to some extent, is identified with a little... well, I'm not in a position to disclose too much, though any amount may be too much at this stage, though too much is a subjective measurement and one that I'm not really in a position to make."

"...So what did it say?"

"Not telling."

By this point, Nev had been stirring his coffee for more than a minute. It now commanded his complete attention. He hadn't even put any sugar in.

I made things easier for him.

"Well, does it need a reply?"

His coffee spoon came to a halt and he looked me in the eye.

"Whoever they are, and I don't know if you know them or if they indeed know you, tell them to take the backdoor, in a metaphorical sense, though the term has become accepted as something of a literal noun in tech terms too, of course."

My key bleeped in my pocket.

"It's a touch unreliable and it might take a few attempts to function, that is, to respond in the desired manner, that is, to produce information, and I don't know what information there might be there, but there it is. There."

And here it is here. (cant get the link to copy sorry :s)

It looks like some sort of file system, but I haven't had the opportunity (or the patience) to crack it myself. I reckon you lot should be able to bombard it enough between you to come up with some tidbits. I'll see what I can squeeze out of it over the weekend. Let me know what you find.


i think the link to the command interface is at http://events.perplexcity.com but as it just pops up in a seperate window, i'm not sure if that'll work.

basically what comes up is a grid where you have to drag and drop UNIX esque commands in and hope the 'program' works.

<spugmeistress> personally i reckon the way it works is that the crypto guys *know* the filesystem in their heads
<spugmeistress> so they know they want to get to the 6th file 2 folders down, or something
<spugmeistress> and obviously we dont know which one we are looking for, so we just have to try n feel our way around blindly

people who know much more than me are trying to figure out how the actual command interface works in #syzygy.

rach =)

(sorry if this is troutable, i refreshed and no one had posted but the forum is being uber laggy today)

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 		OK, heres what I have so far, if you drag in run, it makes all squares parallel and prependicular red, and it says: Runtime Error:No Access Disc, or Invalid Command Grid, now to brush up on my UNIX....
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 		OK, heres what I have so far, if you drag in run, it makes all squares parallel and prependicular red, and it says: Runtime Error:No Access Disc, or Invalid Command Grid, now to brush up on my UNIX....
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 		The link is http://events.perplexcity.com/gateway/commandinterface/index.html

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 		I could only get it to work by putting run in LAST

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 		So there ended up being 4 different messages. They're all on the wiki at http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor .

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 		http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Backdoor

is what I think jalapeno dude meant.

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 		Yeah, it is. Edited.

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 		How do we know there are only 4? Surely there could be more?

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 		Messages discovered (so far) listed below. I'm sure that those of us who looked, saw, played with it and then sat there entirely mystified by it after a long week of work, and decided that consumption of large amounts of vodka was preferable to randomly moving blocks around, would be very appreciative of some sort of description of exactly what the puzzle was.

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CRYPTO PARTS REF: 72690B-0F
EXTERNAL REF: 43914D

DESCRIPTION: Engineering/Smart Dust Cameras; corrected auto-power off firmware bugs, increased bandwidth.


[SPEC] Looks like an engineering notation, about the cameras mentioned - fixing some problems with the software on it - "Smart Dust" leaps out at me as being related to the "Clean Room".


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CRYPTO PARTS REF: 6032VQ-0J
EXTERNAL REF: 10086W

DESCRIPTION: Neuro/Experimental remote TNI scanner; security and identification firmware updated for new Cognivia prototype.


[SPEC] TNI - Toast Nose Input? Terrapins Need Igloos? Or, as a random guess, it's some form of brainwave scanner - The "N" being Neurological. Finally we see why Cognivia haven't sent those prizes out, they were too busy trying to get a straight answer out of Nev...


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CRYPTO PARTS REF: 384621-5A
EXTERNAL REF: 9CE42T

DESCRIPTION: Optics/High Power phase-conjugate laser; calibration and adjustment for high spatiotemporal accuracy.


[SPEC]High spatiotemporal accuracy. Ach Cap'n, I've got the warp engines running as hot as I can, and the cat has eaten the dilithium crystals again - she cannae take much more o'this or she's going to blow!

...I'm thinking that this is either again, to do with the "Clean Room" in some way...OR...it's for use in disrupting space and time...say...if you wanted to...I don't know...maybe....transport objects between two realities?


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Approached the Master today about beginning on an updated and revised edition. V. pleased to discover he considers the idea warmly. He actually said, "My ideas are in good hands with you, and you will of course receive full credit for the work." Somehow I expected more of a struggle. V. gracious indeed. He's not quite the glory-hog SOME people have made him out to be, I guess


[SPEC] "Master" - as far as I recall, the only person titled Master, is Sente, but that smells a little too obvious for me. Plus whilst shadowy underground cults tend to favour such grandiose titles...we haven't seen too many of their internal memos, or "Dear Diary" moments before now. All in all, fairly ambiguous...so, I expect the RSM to explode this one to ten pages by tonight Wink



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 		Before the RSM esplodes all over everything, V. almost certainly means "Very" not "V" from teh sneeky 3p.
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 		smart dust sounds like nano machines to me -- or am i too late Smile
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