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[LOCKED] Discuss the Axon .wav files and their transscripts here
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Antiarc
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Another idea, albeit a very unlikely one.

The "squelches" at the beginning and ends of the files would be the perfect place to hide file distortion due to a stenographic message, although, a graphic message, not an audible one.

Take one of the MP3s and rename it to .RAW. Open it in Photoshop if you have it, and select dimensions for the file. The product of the dimensions must be equal to the size of the file, and the dimensions must be integers.

The following three lines of python can find whole numbers up to this task, given "number" as the filesize in bytes, assuming 8-bit depth and a single channel.
Code:
for i in range(2, number):
   if (int)(number / i) * i == number:
      print "%s, %s" % (i, number/i)


Once you have those numbers, punch them in and you'll get an image of black and white static. In my tests, I was able to enter a textual message in the image, save it, and then rename the file back to .mp3. The resulting mp3 played fine but for a few seconds, in which the audio file was distorted. It might be possible to hide similar data in the "squelches" of the assembled audio file. I don't believe the transmitter has, simply due to the incredibly esoteric nature of the technique, and the fact that it'd be very difficult to disover, as you have dimension depth, and channel information to consider when opening a raw image file, and the number of combinations would be most prohibitive, but it's something to keep in mind, anyway, if other stenographic techniques produce nothing. The various AIs have already proved that they are fond of embedding messages in resource files.

You'd likely need some sort of text recognition software running against a script that attempted to process the file as an image with all possible dimension, depth, and channel combinations in order to do anything productive with the technique, though.

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Pillow is now live. Fills in Jan running around the base we learn MP 1 is the father of Jans class mates and Jans dad was in the SSF

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DigitalCowboy
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Nick Page wrote:
SSF?


Picked up right in the next wave. 'Special Special Forces'
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Pillow is burning!

Nothing too interesting. Makes a reference to Dwain though. Dwain's dad Frank, the louder person.

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Zander
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Nothing too interesting.


Your crazy. SSF was mentioned, that's golden.

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the myth page ends in "To this end, I have also managed to escape from the Spider. It has become clear to me that its arbitrary tyranny over me was based on inadequate principles, on a flawed understanding of the"

is this new?

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Zander wrote:
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Nothing too interesting.


Your crazy. SSF was mentioned, that's golden.
SSF= Special Special Forces.
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Has anything on the site changed since we've unlocked them all or is it waiting a pre-set amount of days do you think?

Also, is this supposed to be happening, all of the text repeating? Or is this a new development?
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Zander wrote:
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Nothing too interesting.


Your crazy. SSF was mentioned, that's golden.

We already know that Jan's Dad was in the "SSF". It's as useful as saying "seven" seven times. Well at least that's what it seems.

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SSF means something else to me other than the obvious special special forces quip.

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Nick Page wrote:
the myth page ends in "To this end, I have also managed to escape from the Spider. It has become clear to me that its arbitrary tyranny over me was based on inadequate principles, on a flawed understanding of the"

is this new?
Nope mentioned already old, nothing what sp-ever new, but I think every scenario ended, except for jersey's. Now who wnats to be the person who summerizes em?
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Guest Again wrote:
Has anything on the site changed since we've unlocked them all or is it waiting a pre-set amount of days do you think?

Also, is this supposed to be happening, all of the text repeating? Or is this a new development?


It was happening yesterday, and they put it in the html.... every single block of text.

Is it supposed to? yes. Why? /shrug

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Guest Again wrote:
Has anything on the site changed since we've unlocked them all or is it waiting a pre-set amount of days do you think?

Also, is this supposed to be happening, all of the text repeating? Or is this a new development?

It's been happening since wide awake and physical. It's the Flea being annoying.

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Perhaps the site will update when it completes todays set of calls automatically, because if all axons have to be activated, people are really going to lose interest as it will take a lot of time for something not really necessary.
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The way I see it we have three stories here. Jan, Durga/Jersey and Kemal/Sophia.
If the 777 counter implies more data outstanding I would suspect that we will now delve into these stories. At the moment they stand alone. The only connection I have seen so far is Jersey's mention of Jan and Durga's lookup on info. It could be argued that this follows directly into the Jan story, however I do not think so. With the data we have so far, I have not seen any evidence that Durga has access to live data (possibly implied by 'I can do better then that' but not solid). So far it has been data mining.

[SPEC]
I think that Jan is the central story. We have a individual (or a pair if you include the 'father') that does not want to be found and we have two entities (a tenacious data gathering AI and a sneaky hacker geek) that have demonstrated a knack at getting at hidden data. Durga has already started linking into the Jan story by digging up info on her 'father'. Kemal has the start of a possible link in digging up info on a grey (nee Black) market smuggler/forger.
As the story unravels, I suspect that we will see Durga and Kamel getting drawn into the Jan story and Jan and company (by necessity) fighting back.

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