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[UPDATE] new posts on paintover [Nov 10]
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zeyd
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Semioclast wrote:

What could these, "ley lines" be? Is it just a typo on the part of the PMs?


lines of force that circle the earth....apparently
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMLeyLines.html

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 		Did someone already translate this? http://www.paintover.net/_cpy/archives/texel2.zip?

I didn't understand how XOR works, so if anyone can explain me ... Embarassed
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 		i believe its in one of the other threads
if i remember what brienigma said its a form of basic logic
a yes or no thing i'm pretty sure
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Moriar wrote:
Did someone already translate this? http://www.paintover.net/_cpy/archives/texel2.zip?


BriEnigma wrote:
FIY, texel2.zip decodes to (using the same XOR decryption algorithm):

Quote:
Miss Kinross is safe and well. She appears to be suffering from a broken right ankle and a certain amount of bruising, but is otherwise not seriously harmed and will recover in due course. There is no need to be alarmed.



Bingo!

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Moriar wrote:

I didn't understand how XOR works, so if anyone can explain me ... Embarassed


You actually need to understand several things.. If any concept below is not familiar to you, stop at that line and follow the link AND do a google search for tutorials..

Characters in a computer are usually represented by ASCII, the de facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters. The capital letter A is 65.

65 is a number in a numbering system called decimal which we all love and use. However, computers deal with a different numbering system called Binary.. Which everyone knows is composed of zeros and ones. 65 decimal converted to binary is 1000001.

XOR is a binary bitwise operator. That means it has a left hand and a right hand operand--it takes to arguments and gives a result. When used with ones and zeros, this is the result table of XOR:

0 XOR 0 = 0
0 XOR 1 = 1
1 XOR 0 = 1
1 XOR 1 = 0


Now remember how we said that A = 01000001. We'll also take another letter Z which equals 01011010

Now we line them up and perform the XOR on each column

01000001
01011010
-----------
00011011


which equals 27 .. 27 in the Ascii Table is (the escape character) .. looks weird doesn't it? Now remember how weird all the characters looked in texel's messages? That's why XOR is reversable.. if we take 27 and XOR it with 65 (A) we get Z !! That's how we reversed texel's posts which used XOR as part of a cipher where each character is XORed by the previous one's result..

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Omnie wrote:
My first thought: they've entirely stopped using the image clues--> directory files thing.
Why? If the spec was right that they were doing it to hide from AI, then...well, we know that Texel got in contact with AI man, who may or may not be the AI that they may or may not have been hiding from. *brain explodes*

Also (having put brain back together), can I suggest that Texel may be the girl in the pic with Jesse?


what i am really worried about is what is going to happen when that AI man gets more POWER!!!!!! shiver what will be his intention...asuming AIs have intention....ok programming (for intents and purposes) equals intention. who programmed him?
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Ehsan wrote:
Moriar wrote:

I didn't understand how XOR works, so if anyone can explain me ... Embarassed


Now remember how we said that A = 01000001. We'll also take another letter Z which equals 01011010


Okie! I didnt understand i had to translate in binary first... Now it's all clear Wink
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 		What leapt out at me was...


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by all rights, i should be dead, and all i can say is, how thankful am i that that thing was not meant for me? that is to say, i feel extremely sorry for whom that was meant - that was not just some ghosts, or dudes with boards out in a cornfield.


[spec] "meant"... is Texel saying that the whomps/paranormals are deliberate? A trap or attack against AI man, maybe? Could explain why he's so damaged... [/spec]

EDIT : Agh, read the Beth Metadex stuff.

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 		Timing of texel's whomp experience and ... what file?
I'm a little baffled by the time and date stamps associated with Texel's recent experience, both in terms of the times and dates on paintover.net, and the filenames from texel.zip and texel2.zip.

Last night in IRC, Ehsan indicated that Movable Type (the software used to run paintover.net) has a 'draft mode' (which Caesar was using), which basically means (if I understood him properly) that posts are still recorded as to when they actually are made, but they can be delayed in posting until later. This would explain why the first batch of the Texel stuff marked as Nov. 8th didn't appear until much later ... and the filenames in texel.zip are consistent with the date and time stamps on paintover.net.

The same would go for the recent November 10th paintover.net posts, except for one inconsistency ... the file inside texel2.zip is named cc-texel-12-11-03-13-26-41.txt. If you go by the convention that made all the other files agree with their posting times, this one should have gone up at paintover.net at 1:26 PM on November 12th (or at least sometime after that). However, Texel's post seems to have occurred at 9:56 PM on November 10th. Baffling.

The other thing that is making my skull itch is Caesar's post:

Caesar wrote:
And, wow. Guys, take a look at that file.

I don't think he means texel2.zip. I can only imagine that Texel's portable picked something up as Root was present with her at the site of the whomp (just as Beth's PDA did when she met with Root):

Texel wrote:
btw, i find it very curious that not only did i escape relatively unscathed, but so did my portable. mostly. unfortunately, the power supply got totally fubared (battery chamber smashed up a bit, a/c jack bent in beyond repair), so i couldn't retrieve anything off it, or tell you guys anything until now. oh boy.

The question is: What file is Caesar talking about ... and where is it? The hackers have got to be sharing files somewhere else. I have this unpleasant feeling that the Oct. 1st image tells us where ...
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 		[OFF TOPIC:]

I tried some keywords on googlism.com (I don't know if this has been done) and although it probably has nothing to do with anything I just like what comes up. Very Happy

Here is what I got for Redland:

redland is
redland is free software
redland is currently in development
redland is well known for the purchasing and consolidating of products
redland is one of the nation's leading brick manufacturers
redland is no stranger to unusual phenomena
redland is also the leader for its technological expertise in the manufacturing of its tiles
redland is an application
redland is not a parser; it has them
redland is noodling with rdfweb
redland is a small c18 chapel
redland is a busy place
redland is so important for
redland is approximately four miles east
redland is mr loren leader whose official title is chief executive officer
redland is home to award winning orchid growers
redland is approximately 16145
redland is a large meeting
redland is stable
redland is that we run a successful building company from the same premises
redland is a exible and ecient implementation of rdf that complements this power and provides highlevel interfaces allowing instances of the model to be stored
redland is redland shire's first acute private hospital
redland is nearing completion with commencement of patient care provision planned for september 2000
redland is secure in knowing that libra offers a 24 hour
redland is being packaged for debian; should make sure that scutter debian package knows about this
redland is looking pretty useful as a basis for building rdf applications
redland is an ideal location for such a high profile event
redland is expected to have a population of 120
redland is active
redland is also located on highly fertile soils
redland is for use on older machines
redland is a library
redland is a wholly
redland is the originator of crc
redland is already a net giver it would make sense to invest more money there so as to generate more income for use elsewhere
redland is a subsidiary of the acceptance insurance companies group
redland is a great staging post of temporary accommodation in the city
redland is a residential community in northwest
redland is a residential
redland is a library that provides a high
redland is the newest hospital to join the mater family and is collocated with the redland
redland is at the intersection of us highway 59 and farm road 2021
redland is a huge and successful european quarrying and building materials company
redland is more than > just a parser
redland is a library providing high
redland is not to be explained in a few words
redland is getting the **** out of hong kong
redland is hoping to extract 10 million tonnes of rock which would be shipped out for use as aggregate on roads and railways
redland is asking for ministers to be given 21 days to make a decision about the lingerbay quarry on harris
redland is a flexible and efficient implementation of rdf that complements this power and provides high
redland is moving the office to near the playshed as one of the many changes happening there
redland is most appreciated
redland is an object based
redland is dissatisfied with the present status of the former province of saltland and is striving for a reunification
redland is principally engaged in the production
redland is a prominent member is now advising the government to project demand as remaining "flat " for the next 20 years
redland is a medium maturity
redland is primarily agriculture composed of three agriculture enterprises including winter vegetables
redland is kids are kids and they're great
redland is in an urban setting
redland is working closely with its pv partner sundog energy on marketing and installations
redland is located on us hwy 59 n
redland is devoted to discovering and using tropical fruits and vegetables in every day life
redland is installed
redland is the greatest problem
redland is an rdf application framework with c and perl apis
redland is in a strong position to help drive forward higher build standards
redland is a residential community in northwest bristol
redland is used to manipulate the graphs for this fast booting system
redland is one of the world's most respected buildings materials companies
redland is rd7
redland is a guava lover's guava that is high in pectin and excellent for making jellies
redland is also looking at a new management system
redland is an agricultural community and from what i saw
redland is a major source of winter vegetables and tropical fruits
redland is a gothic band from frankfurt/main

Some of my favourites (favorites for you Americans) are:

redland is getting the **** out of hong kong
redland is a gothic band from frankfurt/main

Also tried caeser among others.
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 		Although I've been lurking for quite some time, and I think I'm fairly up to date on mostly everything, one of the many things that has been nagging at me is the 'location' of the various hackers (by which I mean in relation to each other).
I think that we are pretty much in agreement that it was Caesar and Random that Beth saw while she was on her little vacation, which indicates that they are fairly close to each other. We also seem to be in agreement that both Caesar and Random are male.
Now, assuming Texel is the girl in the CD picture, and that Jesse is Caesar, why are they not together? I don't know about the rest of you, but if someone I loved was injured I wouldn't express my joy that were safe and - forgive me - a-ok over a computer. Maybe it's just a hacker thing, but personally that would be something I would want to do in person.
I realise that the posts were made for our benefit so that we could follow the storyline, but still it does seem to somewhat jar with my understanding of the human psyche.
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