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Kilroy

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[Trailhead] Strange picture

I was told there is the start of an ARG inside this picture:

http://shoke.deviantart.com/gallery/26178495#/d53y2r2

I don't have any other information.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:42 pm
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Stroma
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Why would a trailhead from June 27 be posted today only? It looks like a corrupted files of a Predator tank from Warhammer 40000, as said by the description "Quick render of a 40k Predat"

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thebruce
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Re: [Trailhead] Strange picture

So clean So Fresh wrote:
I was told there is the start of an ARG inside this picture:

http://shoke.deviantart.com/gallery/26178495#/d53y2r2

I don't have any other information.


An ARG... inside the picture? What will they think of next!

I analyzed the PNG for typical syntax hide methods, found nothing but text appended to the end: "LEITTSEAL". I didn't analyze uncompressed pixel colour plane data.

Clearly there's something wrong/embedded in the uncompressed pixel data. I could do a bit more digging, but I'm at work. The bottom right looks like it could be binary data (B&W pixels), while the bottom left looks like something inserted into or replacing the pixel data.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:49 am
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thebruce
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PNG uses lossless compression syntax. I tore apart the data segments looking for stuff in places data could be hidden without messing up the picture, but found nothing except LEITTSEAL at the very end of the file.
I may have missed something, but nothing stood out.

Except that the data checksums are all valid. --meaning, the PNG is a "valid" PNG, and the "errors" aren't really "errors".

I didn't look at the colourful dots in the image to see if something is hidden there. Razz

Clearly, something is in the file.
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booba
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LEITTSEAL does anagram to Satellite. Hmm

This one is PNG, everything else the artist posted has been JPG.

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Dyskhordian
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sounds like someone just wants to generate traffic to their account
It doesnt look like anything to me.

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