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markoff · Guest

i'm a bit curious about the images themselves, but I don't know enough to figure out if what i'm seeing is just compression artifacts, or something else.

The "normal" version of the bee2_margaretphoto.jpg has very obivous 8x8 blocks of distortion across the entire image. Those 8x8 blocks are disrupted at the right edge of columns (last block is only two wide) and the bottom rows (last block is 4 wide). That gives a total of 56x23= 1288 full 8x8 blocks to 'work with' if those distortions are the source of the information.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:27 am

Noir · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 47

I think that perhaps an old military adage is needed here:

Keep It Simple.

Potential Passphrases:
Truth
Tru7h
Reveal The Tru7h
Seek The Tru7h
Behold The Tru7h
August 24th, 2004
82404
arbitrarily long sequences of 7's and/or 3's.
Hide the Tru7h
arbitrarily complex multiples, factors, exponents, etc. of 7 and/or 3
Bungie
Microsoft
Halo (2)
I Love Bees (.com)

Variation guidelines:
The above numbers codified into alphabetical characters, or the above alphabetical characters codified into numbers.
adding/removing spaces, underscores, dashes, punctuation
mixing the above entries
adding strings of 7's and/or 3's of an arbitrary length

If I didn't use WinME I'd do this quite heartily on my own.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:48 am

accidentalsuccess · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 31

somebody try: oly oly oxen free
?

I searched, nobody put that phrase in. Try it, that's the spartan's code. I'm at work and can't do it myself. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:11 am

Guest · Guest

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:49 am

Joseph_shaw · Guest

there are lots of mentions of queen and widow. these are other names for "queenwidow":

Bathild, Baldechilde, Baldhild, Bauteur

don't know if it will help or not.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:51 am

Kallelin · Boot Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 16

A Warning.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:51 pm

accidentalsuccess · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 31

I took the spelling directly from the book, and apparently nobody posted it up here.

Trout another day, yay! Cool

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:09 pm

Guest · Guest

Re: A Warning.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:50 pm

Lorre · Guest

Please tell me you guys have tried every possible date related to Bungie, Microsoft, I Love Bees,... written in every way possible?

Just 'cause I haven't seen anybody mantion this in this thread, thought I'd mention it...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:34 pm

Kallelin · Boot Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 16

Just had an idea. Some 'random' words have been popping up in that bee sound file and I think there's at least a slight possibility that they're related to the steg passcode. Neither puzzle is getting anywhere, maybe because we're only looking at them separately. Someone help me out on trying to see if the sound info fits into the stegs?

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:24 pm

EvilMonkey · Guest

Possible passwords

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:07 pm

Joseph_Shaw · Guest

maybe theres nothing there at all...
we'll all see eventually, wiether we figure it out or not.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:18 am

number8

Does anyone know about the max length of the pass phrase? If it's short then we might have a chance at breaking this.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:31 am

_________________
Drool

problem quite interesting Drool

nc · Guest

**Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:02 am

CrispyG4

Hey guys. I'm gonna help you try and crack this too. Razz

I'm running win XP so I'm a bit more limited than the Unix/Linux users... :\

If you wanna talk about this my AIM is Crispy0wnzj00, Yahoo IM is CrispyG4, and my MSN is crispyg4SPLATyahoo.com

God be with us... Sad

**Posted:** Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:51 pm