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[TRAILHEAD] CODENAME: Jackman's Blog
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 		[TRAILHEAD] CODENAME: Jackman's Blog
New alien attack ARG found through Despoiler
Hey guys, I've been playing this just started, no idea what its official name is though. I found it at despoiler.com. Heres the blog that started it all http://jackman.wordpress.com/. Also the space administration website http://www.freewebs.com/spacedefenseadministration/ from a post in his blog. It just started so grab a friend and HEAD ON IN!

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Leyton Stone
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 		Alright I've bitten... AIXO was getting a little too difficult for me to keep in time with so I'm going w/ this which I'm calling "Codename:" Jackman's Blog for now... Anyway. Been to http://jackman.wordpress.com/ Which is Jackman's blog and atm there's 5 entries so far.

1st Entry:
Quote:
Hello World!

I am Jack, who is 27 working at Mc Donald's hoping to pay for an education to get a radio degree or aerospace engineering degree. I recieved an odd transmission on my HAM radio today. Here it is:

%2A%53%74%61%72%74%20%54%72%61%6E%73%6D%69%73%73%69%6F%6E%2A%20%54%68%65%20%53%6F%6C%61%72%20%53%79%73%74%65%6D%20%69%73%20%69%6E%20%73%69%67%68%74%2E%20%50%72%65%70%61%72%65%20%74%68%65%20%73%63%6F%75%74%2D%73%68%69%70%73%2E%20%4F%72%64%65%72%20%74%68%65%6D%20%74%6F%20%6D%6F%76%65%20%69%6E%20%61%6E%64%20%66%69%6E%64%20%69%6E%66%6F%72%6D%61%74%69%6F%6E%20%6F%6E%20%74%68%6F%73%65%20%73%6F%20%63%61%6C%6C%65%64%20%22%48%75%6D%61%6E%73%22%20%2A%45%6E%64%20%54%72%61%6E%73%6D%69%73%73%69%6F%6E%2A


The code is Hex and translates to:
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*Start Transmission* The solar system is in sight. Prepare the scout-ships. Order them to move in and find information on those so called "Humans" *End Transmission.


2nd Entry:
Quote:
Thanks!

I saw a link that came to the blog on my dashboard, and followed it, they decoded the message! WOW! Very scary. Now I need to find someone to contact. The major agencies around would not listen to this, so I need to find someone who will. I found this while surfing: http://www.freewebs.com/spacedefenseadministration/

Apparantly they are a small company who holds a few small space-craft. Appears they have no money, maybe from buying ships, so they have a freewebs. Possibly saving in case of an attack? I have tried contacting them but they don't respond. Maybe they think I am crazy?! (Pot calling the kettle black) Anyways, maybe a large amount of people emailing them will help.


Seems like a few people already getting involved. Someone called "Silent13" left a comment on Jackman's blog stating.

Quote:
i may have some information
have you come in contact with them?
you got my e-mail

contact me


Could be IG or a player... Not sure yet. - Either way his email is silent13SPLATgmail.com

3rd Entry:
Quote:
Another transmission

I tuned into the frequency I recieved the transmission on and got another one. Here it is:

428311697114116328411497110115109105115115105111110423284104101321151041051121153

21049711810132981011011103210897117110991041011004632841041011213297114101321129

711511510511010332116104101321151114599971081081011003234751171051121011143266101

108116343211011111946324269110100321161149711011510910511511510511111042


Translates to:
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*Start Transmission* The ships have been launched. They are passing the so-called "Kuiper Belt" now. *End transmission*


4th Entry.
Quote:
Uh-Oh

Appears the "Aliens" are on their way. I hope those space guys can do their job. They told me they launched a scout.


5th Entry.
Quote:
Scout down

The SDA leader emailed me and said his scout went off the air minutes ago. Just after, he got this:

(Line breaks in no order)

1B1D6497DABA5C4929CDF0B764BA539C1B819C7

E41F726618BD9050D7C7E5D66F344DACA891C49

3503902235E48DFCD668822F38A33374FDC69B9

60FF294D7C1348FC5BA511A33F8F61A24F66979

0679DD3C179E88B79C866D0AC3B7F133DB079C7

B9FCBBBBB9CC222C9CB363331F6B79942408AD1

7490479392E6CE8395FB6C708FDB8AD78838557

949790B5288DE8A7C89C477C9D634997E43757A

4E80E18C6D4FD0F939A1FFEA19CDA1875E4B0F7

16D348BEC894B7D240E6A965F28EAE045C1CB82


And this is where we're at as of now... This was posted Sunday night and from what I can see hasn't been decoded just yet.
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Leyton Stone
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 		Sorry, I know it's a double post... But I've just had an email from the DPA.

Quote:
No info from the scout yet. We did recieve one more transmission earlier. It was extremely short, maybe a key or something?

%31%36


I deciphered it using Hex and it only translates to

Quote:
16


So I'm not sure what to make of it.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:18 pm
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 		base-16?

on the subject of Hex.

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 		Well, yes, it's obviously hex code, but it just translates to this:

dں\I)dS~A&a
|~]fDʉI5"5h/83tƛ"4źQ3$iyy<m
÷3{˻"631B@tG"'΃lpۊ׈8UyIy Rފ|w4~CuzNmO9͡^Kqm4K}$j_(E˂

Oh, and FYI, the '%31%36' is called URL encoding from what I gather.

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 		Well, it's not hex->ASCII conversion. And translating hex->decimal hasn't turned up any usable results yet.

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Leyton Stone
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 		Well whatever I try I get "16" as the answer.
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 		he updated the most recent post heres the new code

6196FB96B7604CD12

AA69C0D8D411644B

4078D3A4F7FF3DE86

D6D3CB6BAD58DFBEB

87998F696993DF128

58D16CC7D891658D9

AB26C28D724FB04D

0C8DFA8C7A436F556

E5461A15630A7435D

A6A0825E8598D0534

2CAD6AE1D103FAA63

DCCCF8AD8A12E4E6E

A31BE736F549CD357

FAFDC802D8524B411

E409126476045C1CB82

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 		Just beat me to it...still can't get anything from it, but only been trying for mins.

EDIT: may not mean much, however if the code is hex then it seems to be one character too long, hex generally being in pairs.
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 		Still gibberish to me
Quote:
a`L*
AD:OކkX߾y=(Xl'el($ߨǤ6VFc
t5j%Y4,j=ϊء.Nn6I5܀-$ dv\


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Leyton Stone
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 		Yeah I read on his blog someone said it was Base16 and they would get back to Jack

Edit: Ok confirmed the "16" I keep getting is telling us that the long stringed code is Base16 encoded... It needs to be decyphered as so.

Quote:
Maybe this represents some way to decypher this code. Maybe some sort of base?


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Leyton Stone <leytonstone> wrote:

I've just tried deciphering this, the same way I decoded the first signal Jack had got from his HAM and it only translates as "16"

Is this something that could be of use to you? Maybe I've not decoded it correctly,

-Leyton.

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 		Base 16 = hexadecimal (hex)
I think Leyton has seen this site, but for those who haven't, copy the text and paste it in the 'HEX' box here:
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
and hit 'DECODE' and you get gibberish in the 'TEXT' box.

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Leyton Stone
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 		Yeah I know man it's damn weird because the email's coming from the SDA people.

Maybe the Base64 it's decoding to is a youtube page or something?

I dunno; shall I email them and tell them all I'm getting is gibberish?
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 		yeah, just email them maybe well get another hint. i went to the site he told me to go to but it doesnt convert to text so... yeah email them.

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 		Wow! That's the first time I've seen a true Base conversion puzzle on this site that went more than about 10 characters per "word".

Convert the Base16 to Base10 and then do a decimal to ASCII conversion.

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*Start Transmission* We encountered an Earth Scout, but it was n match for us. Proceed as planned. *End Transmission*

(The puzzlemaster dropped a "1" on one of his "o"s.)

You'll need something a little more powerful than your standard online radix converter to do this one, as most languages have problems dealing with the math involved.

Converting the HEX to "Decimal" gives:
Quote:
97 150 251 150 183 96 76 209 42 166 156 13 141 65 22 68 180 7 141 58 79 127 243 222 134 214 211 203 107 173 88 223 190 184 121 152 246 150 153 61 241 40 88 209 108 199 216 145 101 141 154 178 108 40 215 36 251 4 208 200 223 168 199 164 54 245 86 229 70 26 21 99 10 116 53 218 106 8 37 232 89 141 5 52 44 173 106 225 209 3 250 166 61 204 207 138 216 161 46 78 110 163 27 231 54 245 73 205 53 127 175 220 128 45 133 36 180 17 228 9 18 100 118 4 92 28 184 2


But converting Base16 to Base10 gives:
Quote:
42 83 116 97 114 116 32 84 114 97 110 115 109 105 115 115 105 111 110 42 32 87 101 32 101 110 99 111 117 110 116 101 114 101 100 32 97 110 32 69 97 114 116 104 32 83 99 111 117 116 44 32 98 117 116 32 105 116 32 119 97 115 32 110 11 32 109 97 116 99 104 32 102 111 114 32 117 115 46 32 80 114 111 99 101 101 100 32 97 115 32 112 108 97 110 110 101 100 46 32 42 69 110 100 32 84 114 97 110 115 109 105 115 115 105 111 110 42

(Spaces added by me [It's really just one massive number])

I find Numerical Chameleon to be a good Radix converter (Along with a bazillion other conversions.)

ETA: Leyton... Could you break up that line in your first post? Wink

ETA2: The first (earlier?) bit of "Hex" decodes to:
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*Start Transmission* We shot down a scout. It would not have hurt any of our ships, even a transport, much less a capital ship or fighter. Proceed as planned. *End transmission*

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