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[LOCKED] [LANDALAN] www.landalan.org possible trailhead?
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Mudbrother
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 		Hey all,

Glad to see this moving again. I'm back from vacation and ready to get hopping on this again. Good work everyone on the solves!
Muddy

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 		The Google logo on the mgs page was an even 10000 bytes, which was kinda strange. Open the source and the picture information has another long binary string tagged on the end. Discard the filler zeros at the end, invert it, split it into fives, and use the same decryption method for the pacman page...

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Our contact at EA has come through. The botnet is installed and the isp's have already started to hand us dark fiber under threat. The moles in AT&T, Verizon and Qwest have helped...not a lot from Europe, however. Fortunately, Blizzard has come on board. Things should go quicker. Check the Warcraft page for further instruction. (***NOTE:Capitalization and punctuation added to make things clearer...was not part of the original code.)


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Mudbrother
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which gives http://www.landalan.org/project/warcraft.html


PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:27 pm
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Jiroe
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Mudbrother wrote:
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which gives http://www.landalan.org/project/warcraft.html


Which, in turn, gives:

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Very good. Your next test is at http://www.landalan.org/tests/crypto.html


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mapmaker
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 		Um...how? I tried manipulating the levels and contrast, but I couldn't find anything. What settings should I have used?

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Jiroe
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mapmaker wrote:
Um...how? I tried manipulating the levels and contrast, but I couldn't find anything. What settings should I have used?


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I farted around with different filters and stuff until I figured I would find the original image to see if there were any significant changes (ie. maybe the sword wasn't broken in the original). After finding it, I didn't see any major differences, other than the colorscheme. So just for the hell of it, I figured I'd overlay the original on top of the Landalan one to see any smaller changes. If you do that, then slide the opacity down to 50%, you'll see the entire image becomes gray, and near the top, you should barely be able to make out the text I posted earlier. Once you know where to look, you can sort of see the text on the Landalan image, but I doubt anyone could catch it with the naked eye.


EDIT: The original image is at www.worldofwarcraft.com in the backgrounds section. I'd provide a direct link, but I'm at work where they block most gaming sites (thankfully not UF...yet).

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mongo
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 		On the crypto page horns beg is

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ROT 13 for ubeafort


have tried to work backwards using words that may be in the message (thanks grumpyboy) but no luck yet.

Question

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Why the spelling mistake and why groups of 5. If i seem ignorant it's cos i'm new at this.


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Hangman42
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 		New post at the TIG site :

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Well, it's that time again I supose. Time to look for anothr job. Wheneer I do this I'm not quite sure where to start. It always seems ike the world doesn't have a place for you, you know? It's just because you ost your routne though. Lost the ting that was most constant in your day-to-day life.

I'm strting by ooking at soe of he other tudios around here. I worked as a Gme Developer, but my specfic job had mor to do with finshing work on 3D art. aybe anoher plac around here is looking for omeone to hire?


If you fill in the 'missing' letters they come to :

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pevllihalmsaieimtes - have tried rot's and anagrams - no joy tho. Will keep working on it.


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 		Just looking at it quickly...it might be

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pevllihalmtsaieimtes


instead. There's a t missing in 'the'.

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ancalime
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 		Looks like you can anagram an "email" out of that string, but I can't make the rest into anything productive.

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LatentMoths
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 		I also notice "html" in there.
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I can get "please visit email html", but don't know what to do with that.

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ancalime
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 		Ah! It gets us http://www.theinsidegamer.com/email.html

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I received a response from Jon after sending him an e-mail. It is posted in its entirety below:


Hey Jon,

Needed to talk to someone at Landalan as an insider. Heard you were the guy to go to.

John Q
Blizzard



John,

My name is Jon Russel, and a few months ago I was hired as a web administrator for Landalan. I didn't realize what was going on at the time, and the truth is that I still don't know most of what goes on here.

My job allows me direct control over a small portion of the pages on one of their websites, and I also deal with forwarding and screening e-mail from industry contacts. This is why I needed an industry address for communication.

I can't really get much deeper into Landalan; nor do I think I can safely get out. But this is what I do know. Landalan is a front. I'm not sure for who, but they are some sort of international organization. We routinely deal with diplomats from the United Nations, and from what I can gather, there is something convoluted going on here.

You see, our people at the UN always talk as if Landalan is a front company for the UN. But the people here in Landalan... they don't talk like that at all.

Landalan itself deals with two main groups of companies and organizations: Internet Service Providers/Network Owners, and Video Game/Entertainment Software Companies. I'm not entirely certain how the two are connected, but it seems that both the UN's and Landalan's goals involve the internet itself, though how I'm not sure.

Anyone who wants more information about what's going on should take a closer look at the WGIG and WSIS. They get mentioned a lot around here, though why I don't know.

I will send this, but all subsequent messages will be in some form of cipher or encryption to ensure my security. I'm pretty sure I've found a pattern to their 'random' screenings of my e-mails.

If you can, you or someone helping you should try to get access to their more internal site. You should be able to accomplish this by "completing the test", if you know what I mean. (I'm doing what I can to make landalan.org as unorganized as possible, so that I can slow them down; I'm trying to avoid being fired though, as I somehow doubt they would just give me a pink slip.)

Something that you might find useful knowing though: landalan.org is their recruitment site.

~JR


So, looks like we're back to needing to crack the crypto page.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:06 am
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freshness
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 		Well...I know I've hit an impasse on the crypto page. I think we're all on the same page that it's a Beaufort (or maybe the Vigenere-Beaufort variant?) cipher. I think the key length is probably 13...there seem to be a lot of coincidental digraphs and trigraphs when you split it up that way. From there, I've got nothing. I think I'm missing something. Anybody else got any ideas?

-Fresh

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Russell
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 		Ok latest update on updates page:

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Welcome operative, you are now receiving updates

.desucof yats ot rebmemeR

Next update: 1156204800


Dont think i need to translate that for you Laughing

Next update at :

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Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 UTC


Have been thinking more about the current puzzle, if you change the letters at the end into numbers you get:


13-8-15-18-14-19 2-5-7

Now there are 81 blocks of 5 letters (including the last B as a block) and there are 9 numbers could be coincidental but maybe not. have tried splitting up the blocks and then rot-ting them to the equivalent number but nada. Throwing it out there....

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thebruce
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 		pretty sure the 13's point is for us to get "UBEAF ORT" from "horns beg".

If we use a beaufort cipher, we need to figure out the parameters... I tried the vigenere with a reversed board, using UBEAFORT as well as HORNSBEG as the key, but nothing's coming up.

Nice thing is, the results of the cipher using either key are interchangeable with a rot-13. (ie, result w/key:ubeafort = result rot-13'd w/key:hornsbeg)

Anyway, I thought maybe each group of 5 would use the same letter of the key, moving to the next letter each group. Still nothing.

What gets me is the last remaining B on its own. Either the B is significant itself, or the grouping into 5's likely doesn't have a meaning.
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