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Gimme20dollaz
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 		NEW EMAIL!
Quote:
Hello everyone! I know you've been waiting for this moment. Yes, I have something for you to work on. My staff was able to intercept a signal over police radio chatter frequency. Of course we recorded it since it's complete unusual for such radio transmission to be transmitted over such frequency. Sorry if we can't clean out the audio for you, getting a listen to police chatter from miles away just made the whole thing banded together. I hope you can work it out. It's a VERY long transmission, and we do think it's of importance. We think this message was intended for Alex, since we all know who still send Morse code over the air for no real reason. Right? Yes of course I was talking about Genus. It's about 16 minutes long and can really take a while to work on. Sorry if really had to make you guys do it. You know how it is here with Alex, I don't want him to think we're working on his transmission, so I'll have to make it that you guys have to do it for me.

Also, LAINSY is back up 100%. Which is probably why Genus has is now giving his instructions to Alex. I'm not sure if this actually is the transmission we need, nonetheless, it should be worth the try. Don't worry, I'm on my personal network, and I have figured he can't intercept my message if I'm on my network. So we're secure here. If this is in fact Genus transmission to Alex, then we'll have to beat Alex by decoding this ahead of his team. Since we've worked on this in the past, we've managed to make it a little bit more easier for you. Some fixing up. It's still hard, but I hope you can do it.

Good luck and keep me posted! I've attached the file for your convenience.

Daniel Miller
Board of Director, FAILTECH


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:59 am
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godder
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 		New email from Alex. Seems like Dan is trying to get one up on Alex and Alex is still not willing to let us in on anything.

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LAINSY is now back 100%, so we can now perform the required task to do, whatever that is. I'm still to hear from Orein about what's next, and I'm having quite a hard time doing that. He can be get a little cryptic, if that's the best description I can put it to. So, just stand by and I'll update you once we know what to do.


Seems like we need to decode this file so Dan can stick it to his boss. Laughing

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:01 am
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posse
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 		Just starting to decode the Morse. It's a bunch of NUMBERS.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Also it looks like it's one of the hex to dec to hex to dec to ENIGMA


This is going to take a little while, so stand by.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:16 am
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godder
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 		I can only work on this intermittently right now. I'll check back in a bit and see if any more progress has been made.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:55 am
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punxtr
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 		Grr, sort of busy, will clean up later.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:59 am
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posse
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 		I've got work to do, but this is the from the first TWO MINUTES of the mp3... note that I stopped my decoding at 01:59.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Morse decode [00:00 to 01:59]:
25 21 14 26 24 14 25 21 14 25 21 14 25 21 14 26 22 14 24 23 14 26 25 14 24 23 14 25 24 14 24 27 14 26 26 14 25 21 14 26 21 14 25 26 14 25 27 14 25 23 14 26 27 14 24 23 14 26 24 14 25 23 14 25 21 14 25 24 14 26 1e 14 26 26 14 25 1f
Convert hex to dec to hex to text to dec:
IVIIITAWALEXISNOKYAVKILPXG


If someone wants to start from the back, say from 8 minutes onward, that would probably be much appreciated! We can compare answers too, I'll just keep going along.

EDIT - there's not much cleaning up you need to do if you just look at the spectrum in Audacity -- you can clearly see the dit's and dah's and once you know you're looking for patterns of 5, it's pretty easy. Look out once in a while there may be a letter (a, b, c, d, e, f).
EDIT - Added the numbers in Morse to keep track.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:34 am
Last edited by posse on Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:03 pm; edited 1 time in total
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punxtr
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 		Process: decode as hex, copy decimal into hex, decode again, copy text into decimal, decode again

This is what I got right now:
Code:
..--- ..... ..--- .---- .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- ....- .----

....- ..--- ..... ..--- .---- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- .----
.---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- .---- .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..---

..--- .---- ....- ..--- ....- ..--- ...-- .---- ....- ..--- -....

..--- ..... .---- ....- ..--- ....- ..--- ...-- .---- ....- ..---

..... ..--- ....- .---- ....- ..--- ....- ..--- --... .---- ....-

..--- -.... ..--- -.... .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- .---- .----

....- ..--- -.... ..--- .---- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- -....

.---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- --... .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..---

...-- .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- --... .---- ....- ..--- ....-

..--- ...-- .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- ....- .---- ....- ..---

..... ..--- ...-- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- .---- .---- ....-

..--- ..... ..--- ....- .---- ....- ..--- -.... .---- . .----

....- ..--- -.... ..--- -.... .---- ....- ..--- ..... .---- ..-.

.---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- .---- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..---

----- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- ...-- .---- ....- ..--- -....

..--- --... .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- ----- .---- ....- ..---

..... ..--- -.... .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- -.... .---- ....-

..--- -.... .---- ..-.  .---- ....- ..--- ..... .---- ..-.  .----

....- ..--- --... .---- .     .---- ....- ..--- --... .---- .     

.---- ....- ..--- --... .---- .     .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..---

....- .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- ..... .---- ....- ..--- ....-

..--- ...-- .---- ..... ..--- -.... .---- .     .---- ....- ..---

--... .---- .     .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- ....- .---- ....-

..--- -.... .---- ..-.  .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- ..--- .----

....- ..--- ....- ..--- ....- ..--- -.... .---- ....- ..--- .....

.---- .     .---- ....- ..--- -.... ..--- ..... .---- ....- ..---

..... ..--- --... .---- ....- ..--- ..... ..--- ----- .---- ....-


I'm gonna go play some paintball now.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:58 am
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posse
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 		I'm stuck -- what's the Morse from 02:59.0 to 02:59.5? Anybody make it out? It sounds like
Code:
....
which is Morse for H, but that doesn't make sense for the decode.

In the meantime, here's the Morse for 02:00 to 02:59.6:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
25 21 14 25 20 14 25 23 14 26 27 14 25 20 14 25 26 14 26 26 14 26 1f 14 25 1f 14 27 1e 14 27 1e 14 27 1e 14 25 24 14 1e 25 2h
where the 2h I think is wrong somehow?


PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:12 pm
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godder
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posse wrote:
I'm stuck -- what's the Morse from 02:59.0 to 02:59.5? Anybody make it out? It sounds like
Code:
....
which is Morse for H, but that doesn't make sense for the decode.

In the meantime, here's the Morse for 02:00 to 02:59.6:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
25 21 14 25 20 14 25 23 14 26 27 14 25 20 14 25 26 14 26 26 14 26 1f 14 25 1f 14 27 1e 14 27 1e 14 27 1e 14 25 24 14 1e 25 2h
where the 2h I think is wrong somehow?


I think there is another dit in there posse. If you clean it up and slow it down, you can just barely hear it.

EDIT: It is hard to see on Audacity though.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:58 pm
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godder
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 		Did you also notice that there isn't just police radio chatter going on? There seems to be audio from old space missions. Specifically I heard "the eagle has landed" from Apollo 11 from the moon. It was as I was decoding from 8 minutes on so it has to be between 8 and 9 minutes or so. Interesting.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:11 pm
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posse
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 		Checking in. I stopped decoding at 04:59 to check whether what punxtr and I have corresponds. There's some minor differences on both mine and punxtr's sides but they are nearly dead on. Basically what we've got so far is:
Quote:
IVIIITAWALEXISNOKYAVKILPXGIHKYHNXQGZZZLMAPZVQTDFWOHYLJINXKRCDICSSUA
where the bolded is what only I have (punxtr must have gone out to play paintball before he reached this point).

If it's an Enigma code, my first guess would be:
Rotors - IVIII (1/5/3, 4/1/2, 4/2/1)
Starting position - TAW
Plugs - AL EX IS NO KY (which spells out ALEX IS NOt OKaY)

Note that there's no "AAA" key which concerns me a little bit, and the fact that I haven't found a coherent message yet from an Enigma decoder. Anyone else got anything from this?

EDIT - I won't be able to revisit this until much later on tonight, so hopefully the 1st 5 minutes is enough to go on. I've attempted to decode up to 04:59.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:44 pm
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zeighy
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 		I just realized, isn't Dan supposed to be like a founder of the company like Fred? Didn't Dan say he established the company with Fred way back? Meanwhile Alex just came into the company years after... I'm a bit confuused on who's supposed to be the boss here... Isn't Dan supposed to have some superiority here? Can someone clarify this to me....

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godder
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 		I can't reconcile that, except to say that Alex must be moving up the corporate ladder by any means necessary, including chewing up Daniel in the process.

I will be away from the computer for a while but I will check in periodically.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:16 pm
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LatentMoths
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 		Here's what I have...

Some Progress
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
IVIIITAWALEXISNOKYAVKILPXGIHKYHNXQGZZZLMAFZVQTDFWOHYLJINXKRCDICSSUADLYTUSOJZEXAZXLKORJAUUYIB
VWTSZATFILYGIGHQVPJSRJMRJEYSGDKXYJYWDDSPTETKDTDDVFXJXRUGXMVGIVNMYGPUFFZCCXQNQELSUKEALUIMLK
DVYURXAYF?JICZKSHMFDFX

I have one letter different from posse's code which I have in bold. Also notice the ? towards the end. That's what the final decimal code translated to. It is most likely a mistake on my part in listening to the morse code. I couldn't get anything out of the enigma machine that made sense. Oh well I'm done for a while. Hopefully someone can do something with this.


Never mind...

Enigma Solution
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Rotors: I,V,III
Starting Position: TAW
Plugs: AL EX IS NO

I used the rest of the code in previous spoiler. There were about three mistakes including the ? towards the end, but it was easy to see what the message was supposed to be.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE IMAGES HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT TO DO HAVE YOU DONE WHAT YOU NEED TO I AM WAITING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE I KNOW YOU CAN DONT FAIL ME NOW THE IMAGES ARE IMPORTANT IT SAYS WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND WHAT TO DO LAINSY NEEDS TO KNOW IT

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posse
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 		OMG LatentMoths you rock.

EDIT - Got it at the same time! Deleting mine. Very Happy
EDIT2 - Sent an email off to Miller.

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