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[POSSIBLE Trailhead?] Adam.Ctrl
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pancito
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Found this in the inbox... Anyone know where it belongs?

Quote:
from Adam <adam>
to adam.ctrl@gmail.com
date Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:40 PM (GMT-10)
subject input

($#&*$%*%&#*(@$&
$*#(*$%&#(@)$*&($&
#*&$^@)#$)(*&%_$#(
()*$_#&$)#(_37248)@*#
*$(*$)&@_)$&@
*_&_&*#%&#&_$*_

, , ,

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:16 pm
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Talaisan
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pancito wrote:
Found this in the inbox... Anyone know where it belongs?

Quote:
from Adam <adam>
to adam.ctrl@gmail.com
date Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:40 PM (GMT-10)
subject input

($#&*$%*%&#*(@$&
$*#(*$%&#(@)$*&($&
#*&$^@)#$)(*&%_$#(
()*$_#&$)#(_37248)@*#
*$(*$)&@_)$&@
*_&_&*#%&#&_$*_

, , ,


Straightforward. Translate them down to numbers. Looks like 2 through 0 on the keyboard, shift keys on. See where it goes from there.

Just switching the shift gives us:

9437845857389247
483984573920487947
38746203409875-439
9084-374039-#&@$*0283
84984972-0472
8-7-7835737-48-

Which is still garbage to me, but might mean something?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:54 pm
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TheIllustratedMan
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Posts: 203

 		^ Got that too, but there's another part to it...

Quote:
*(&$)*(78407^^$@)7-0%@+&-6-%&^$^@$%(*&-^%&
%&%^
%#^%%%%%%%%%%%%)%&(_@4738965-_%^$@_^%
%@&67036078#_&*_&%#*(_@$&*(%
%*#^%&)@^_$$$$$$$$$$$$$$@&%T^_@
%*)@*&%$^@_%%_@&$&_#^%@_$#
%&@*%+^T+^%+$(*$@+%&*%7582-74_%&_@$
%&@_$&*(_+%@_$*@&%@_&_%&@$_*@^%
%@_&^$*(#
(@$&_%&_$&$*_%*@(_#&!*_%(*@(&@_


some of those don't shift down (like - and + for instance) so i'm not totally sure what that gives us. what's with the numbers that are left alone? seems like there's more to it. :-\
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anonymousloli
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 		Got the adam.ctrl emails too. But I've been trolling him, first replying with O RLY and then with me repeating RAPE RAPE RAPE for a couple of lines.

Here are his replies.

Quote:
#*%$&*#()%&RAPE*%)&#%^)#)&%^)*&_%$^
*_)$&$_+&$O RLY($*_)&^%_*_&%^)#
O%*_&^%_&^$%YRAPE*_%$&%_&@&^%
*%&_&^%_*&%$RAPE*_%&#O RLY$)^%#
___

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$(@*$(@$*@)O RLY?! ________ $%%*&#&%*(#*%#
%*#&%(#
%*(&%#)_@_&%_)@*%&#_%& $%(#_*%$@_+&RLY*$
%*_&%_@*$#&_%$%*@&$

, , ,

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:16 pm
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Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		[POSSIBLE Trailhead?] Adam.Ctrl
Hey guys and girls, I AM still alive! lol Very Happy

Okay so I did a search for this and couldn't find the email anywhere on the site. I've just checked my old ARG account and recieved an email from adam.ctrlSPLATgmail.com titled "Input"

Quote:
($#&*$%*%&#*(@$&
$*#(*$%&#(@)$*&($&
#*&$^@)#$)(*&%_$#(
()*$_#&$)#(_37248)@*#
*$(*$)&@_)$&@
*_&_&*#%&#&_$*_

, , ,


Any ideas?

P.S again I DID search but couldn't find anything, sorry if it's a trout!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:48 pm
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natas
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 		Someone posted about it in the "Is this SPAM?" thread. I don't think they got anywhere with it, though.

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:54 pm
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Leyton Stone
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Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		Damnit... That thread doesn't show up in search for some reason >.<
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:56 pm
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 		As you can tell from my post count, I'm new to this sort of thing (hello!) but I've noticed that there's ten different characters used in the message (excluding the numbers and the commas at the end). Perhaps these characters correspond to numerical digits?

Don't know if that helps...

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:14 pm
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RemixFiction
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 		the character frequency distribution suggests that it isn't a simple substitution - too evenly distributed for english (would need a larger sample to be sure). The only numbers (37248) could be a reference to a zip code which lands in the middle of Nashville.

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:18 pm
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Lunsford
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 		Leyton, where have you been?


And I am sure that the symbols are some sort of substitution.
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Leyton Stone
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 		I've got a LOT of personal issues going on atm, Lu. And of course, studying!

I'm kind of back and forth though... >.>
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:22 pm
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Lunsford
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Leyton Stone wrote:
I've got a LOT of personal issues going on atm, Lu. And of course, studying!

I'm kind of back and forth though... >.>



Lemme know if you need anything D.
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ndemeter
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 		Heya!

Did some mad moddin' skillz to get all the pieces of the note on this trailhead.

Game on! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:24 pm
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RemixFiction
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 		After shifting the symbols to numbers on the first message, I tried pairing the numbers and doing a frequency count since many ciphers use paired numbers. Nothing really jumped out at me. 39 and 84 come out as winners for frequency so they could represent E and S. Here it is anyway:

94 37 84 58 57 38 92 47
48 39 84 57 39 20 48 79 47
38 74 62 03 40 98 75 -4 39
90 84 -3 70 39 -3 72 48 02 83
84 98 40 72 -0 47 28 -7 -7 83 57 37 -4 8-,,,

-0 //
-3 //
-4 //
-7 //
02 /
03 /
20 /
28 /
37 /
38 //
39 ////
40 //
47 ///
48 ///
57 ///
58 /
62 /
70 /
72 //
74 /
75 /
79 /
8- /
83 //
84 ////
90 /
92 /
94 /
98 //

PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:00 pm
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Leyton Stone
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 		That was super mod work... Although you could have left my post as the OP being as I was the first to actually do a trailhead for it, whether others posted in could this be spam or not 0_o

And 283 posts in 5 yrs and yet, you're a mod? 0_o

lol anyway moving on.
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