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Das Llama · Unfettered Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 362

IMHO, scientology is a business disguised as a religon. But I guess this discussion is for a different place.

The rook image is not named the same as the other images. IE it dosent say "encoded" in the name. Does the program say there is something else there ? or did TDC forget to change the image names or something ?

Anyway, ideas for rook paswords:
On the chess board the black rooks start at a8 & h8 Black pawns start at a7 b7 c7 d7 e7 f7 g7 h7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_%28bird%29
The Rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family. Named by Linnaeus in 1758,[1] the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering".

Das Llama

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:21 pm

jabroni

Usually TDC has a clue in the last thing we found for the next step. So maybe there is a clue in that pic of the spy with a bag over his head. I noticed it says "two birds with one stone" so I tried bird2, one stone, stuff like that. But maybe its more focused on the chess piece than the bird. I'm stumped...

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:02 pm

Lunatech

btw Tom sent me this after he sent the note that the videos
hope it helps and I hope its new

lyjestyr

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:30 pm

jabroni

Luna, what was the date and time he sent that? It rots to "anything." Did anyone else get an email from him? Maybe it will say "dont tell him anything"?

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:39 pm

nachouru · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 132

HEY

Tom to me:

dro mw

ROT 16

the cm

BTW... why didnt you said I was the mole... CM would've to fly to uruguay and leave eric alone to escape... Razz

Nicole... cant make the steg program to work... with Tom pics... (i renamed to bmp... but "ERROR" when i try to open them)

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:03 pm

jabroni

Nacho, welcome back!! I had that problem too. When you save the pics off the blog, you have to choose to save them as a bmp then. If you just rename the file it doesnt work.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:29 pm

Sgt.Brass

Steg update

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:37 pm

nachouru · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 132

thx... u have to download it with IE not with firefox BTW

Im on Irc if anybody wants to came

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:41 pm

jabroni

Ah good catch Sgt Brass! I guess when you save pictures as a bmp and open them in notepad or a text editor, they all look very different than a jpg or png looks. I thought it looked all funky because it was encoded, but thats just the bmp format.

If anyone wants to join the irc chat, we're on the uf server and the chat room name is #pet.

edit:
On the wiki page for the chess piece rook, it says another name for a rook is a chariot.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:55 pm

Sgt.Brass

nice1 u2!

ok bcos im bored:

Basically most files that are not text will look like symbols in notepad even if they do not have anything hidden in them. Notepad generally is only able to display a-zA-Z0-1 punctuation etc but of course it is not the symbol that is stored only a number 0-255 and notepad does not bother with the weird symbols so you just get a rectangle Sad

Anyway bcos it does not bother with all the weird symbols, it might print a rectangle for different values, so one rectangle is not nessecerily going to be the same as another.

Now it would be dodgy to change the file format of a picture to try in a steg program, as some will progs will (i guess the best word is "attach") the hidden data to the picture, which a picture converter will not understand and should just ignore.

However if the hidden data is hidden by slightly changing the colour of each pixel, then as long as the conversion is not worse quality than the original then you *might* be ok in getting the hidden stuff back, assuming the decryption prog is descently written.