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[PUZZLE] October 9 pictures at paintover
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Pokpok1
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 		The top might be USH, they are providing access to all site

Just an idea.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:19 am
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NjWebGuy
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 		no, i'm possitive it's still the same server, and they gave us a clue to the directory, i'm sure it's browsable too!

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NjWebGuy
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 		that sounds logical.

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PoisonEye
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 		ok I think we're getting warmer. hack and slash. well you need to hack to find the subdirectories, you put slashes between them. I like the stairs idea. dub dub dub I am now almost certain means use WWW not FTP.

Second verse, same as the first. <- still use aquapolis???

Let's view it from the top <- top? top of the world? WWW?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:21 am
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ecwilder
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 		can i be attempting to hack and slash into this thru ie explorer?? cuz im at work... i couldnt get the previous 14 files thru it.. it came up as 'forbidden'

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NjWebGuy
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 		view it from the top and add the new directory

i think it's from root, meaning http://www.theaquapolis.com/direcotry goes here/

don't use the urchin one anymore

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:25 am
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ecwilder
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 		Re: PoisonEye
Anonymous wrote:
I think Pollux is the first one here to realize that the "Grabbing Internet Files, a primer" could have a dual meaning. First, it leads you to the GIF file...second, it's saying prime numbers are used to grab internet files. Although that doesn't necessarily mean on paintover. Maybe the GIF leads you to a place where you use prime numbers to find files, similarly to carelessly.



can we plug this into NjWebGuy's theory?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:27 am
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PoisonEye
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 		I think we missed something. Yeah the GIF image IS a primer...how to get to the next site. I think we need 1 more clue to break this open. Does anyone else think that BTW...Congrats! is less innocent than it looks? Someone already noticed red dots...stegging? Hmm...

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PoisonEye
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 		ecwilder...you just blew my mind....you just quoted ME (before I registered). And here we are trying to figure out the dir structure. I wonder.

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Marl64
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ecwilder wrote:
can i be attempting to hack and slash into this thru ie explorer?? cuz im at work... i couldnt get the previous 14 files thru it.. it came up as 'forbidden'


You should be able to. The Forbidden usualy comes up if you enter the wrong password for that resource. If you weren't asked a password, IE could be caching the password you previously used. Forbidden would also come up if you didn't specify a filename - since the directory is hidden.

I've been kinda using that to try some things.

Finding subdirectories, not including a filename

If you try to access a directory that is not there you get "not found"

If you find a directory it should report "Forbidden" after which you need to find either a specific file or another subdirectory.

But since the permutations are phenomenal the directories would have to be the answers to clues.

This can't be done blind. we need to be led.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:30 am
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ecwilder
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 		well it sounds like instructions like the Polis/urchin picture... so verse 2 same as verse 1... @ftp.theaquapolis.com

anyways, i think all the answers would be in one pic... the 'oh and btw...' seems like his congrats picture was an afterthought... i think if anything (tho i hope and am sure ill be proved wrong) that in the congrats thered be a steno of whoever hes congratulating...

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Marl64
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PoisonEye wrote:
ok I think we're getting warmer. hack and slash. well you need to hack to find the subdirectories, you put slashes between them. I like the stairs idea. dub dub dub I am now almost certain means use WWW not FTP.

Second verse, same as the first. <- still use aquapolis???


This works, however I did wonder if it refered to the first directory being the same as the site address (nothing came of it)
Quote:

Let's view it from the top <- top? top of the world? WWW?


OR we start the search at the root of the site, rather than the "Urchin" subdirectory we used previously.

EDIT: Sorry HjWebGuy, I missed your post - just saw it looking back Embarassed .
NjWebGuy wrote:
view it from the top and add the new directory

i think it's from root, meaning http://www.theaquapolis.com/direcotry goes here/

don't use the urchin one anymore

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:35 am
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ecwilder
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 		dub dub dub hack and slash
you'll find the way
-c


maybe at the www aquapolis site theres something called 'the way' .. a directory? doubt it. just a athought...

wouldnt the clue HAVE to be in that file cabinet folder??? .....

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:39 am
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ecwilder
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 		err i meant the clue has to be in the file cabinet picture...

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Giskard
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 		I don't want to do away with all theories on the last two pages of this thread, but I just thought of something that maybe offers an alternative theory on the meaning of the stegged message.

Slight change in plans.
Second verse, same as the first.

Could this be about the first and second pic that got posted on paintover.net? We "cracked" the second pic, but not the first... can they possibly hint us that the method to do that is the same?

The blind transit's been plugged to the oafs

Meaning, we discovered the "blind" FTP?

Let's view it from the top

Encouraging us to retrace our steps, i.e. go back to the first paintover.net pic?

Blindly, still, but climb those stairs carefully

Blindly meaning either we are still "in the dark" about the meaning of the picture, or maybe blindly is a reference to the "eye see" remark that came with the picture?

I'm puzzled about the stairs bit though...

dub dub dub, hack and slash
You'll find the way!

The second pic pointed us to an ftp site, so the first is trying to point us at a www. site?

Maybe I'm way off, but I thought I'd share anyway...
[EDIT] And to undermine my own theory in one way: I am assuming that "they" are talking to "us", while the rest of the conversation through paintover.net is considered a conversation meant for "them"selves... hmmm

PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:46 am
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