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[barbarossa]

Yay! I was out of town but nothing has happened yet. SO.... can't wait for this party to get rolling.

[chirel]

Hi, I'm first time poster on this forum.

Has anyone else already tried to solve the three classified commands by pasting letters from the text over the hidden text? I tried this today, although my program doesn't seem to be very good for this kind of thing and my skills are even worse... I did manage to find out that what has been assumed to be qadhos in the beginning of these codes, might not be that, after all. The a from the text is too small, same goes for e and o. Then I grew tired of having techincal problems all the time, so that's all I've tried so far. Could someone more skilled repeat this experiment? Maybe I just wasn't skilled enough.

On the other hand... If the first word is not qadhos, then what could it be?

The g does seem to mach the assumed g on the second classified command.

[augusta.echo]

Interesting point. We all assumed it would be qadhos because that's the obvious, but it clearly doesn't have to be. If it helps, I found the font online. It's on 1001 Free Fonts, called Catholic School Girls.

[chirel]

Oh, wow! That helps. Because it'll give me all the missing letters for comparison. I think I'll play with this a bit more tomorrow.

[chirel]

About the letters on the font:

I arranged them in groups based on how tall they are.
1. bdfhjkl 4 (tallest ones)
2. it 123567890 (i is almost tall enough to be in the first group)
3. egmnopqrsuvwxyz
4. ac

So, those few letters on the first classified code that can barely be seen above the black line are from group 2 and those that show clearly are from group 1. The fisrt letter is q the second could be 6 or 0, if it's not a (supposing I made a mistake yesterday). So whatever is not visible is either from group 3 or 4.

The only ones that could show underneath the line are g and y and their loops are identical.

Edit: Changed the grouping a little.

I've copy pasted the letters qadhos to the first classified code, and they fit. I just needed to place the letters higher than on most other lines.

Also, the little bits of letters showing above the back line can't be from the group 2 as I suspected, but are rather from group 3.

[augusta.echo]

Is everyone else getting the "default web site page" when trying to access qadhos.com?

[barbarossa]

[inf.h5n1]

me too, hope thats not a meltdown.. did someone contacted adam or qadhos.gmail (or any other contact we have, maby on facebook)?

[chirel]

What is this!?!?!? qadhos.com is now a hair salon?

[inf.h5n1]

backdoor leading to the same page (backdoor.qadhos.com). couldnt see anything exceptional in the script or in the blog site, looks like a real hair salon.. anyone knows whats going on?

[chirel]

I don't trust this hair salon site. What kind of hair salon doesn't provide address? It doesn't even name tho town. The phone number leads to Everett, WA. Also what's missing from the site is the name of the hairdressers. At least here where I live these sites always include names and pictures of the staff and the general tone is very familiar. The site: there's just the phone number and the e-mail address. No picture of the salon? And why would a salon called Machado have a www-address qadhos?

There's a link to the photographers site and she seems to have a proper website compared to this Machado salon...

So my last question for now is: what could those numbers be if not a phone number.

[inf.h5n1]

http://wa.mingluji.com/business_directory/Salon_Machado_On-Location_Hair

http://wa.askyp.com/4253341185.html

http://gbiz.org/Washington-Yellow-Pages/Everett/Snohomish-County/Salon-Machado-On-Location-Hair/4253341185/index.htm

http://www.directorycentral.com/business/wa/everett/machado-salon-on-location-hair-make-up-design-38117718.html

Seems legit, just in case, ive done some reverse image search on some of the pictures but nothing came up.
i cant reach Gmail here, no answer from adam in Email?
What i dont get is why would she use QADHOS domain, there no connection in the name. In the 4th episode we had to send someone to a hotel in toronto and get a pakage that was hidden in the toilets, Maby we sould try to send someone over there, or can someone call it and see what going on?
Anyway the site does look strange, and i cant get why the backdsoor EVEOnline connection is gone also.

EDIT: k, went to qadhos.com/images, found few strane things.
1. the dino pic. wtf. (http://qadhos.com/images/dino.jpg) nothing came on tineye search.
2. there is a "but_about" file, but could find it in the site itself.
3. same with some other banners, but noting special.
4. if i understood, pictures are from March 2011, which is strange.

there is no qadhos.com /files or /gates, any other ideas?

[chirel]

http://www.salonmachado.com/

Is the same site.

[aseameba]

I have a friend, who lives in Kirkland, not far from Everett. I asked him if he could look into it and maybe find out if the salon really exists.

What bothers me the most is that nowhere there is any kind of street address listed. Nothing but the e-mail and the phone.

[chirel]