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| We've just gotta be missing something, like a shopping toolbar of pure evil that sucks affiliate commissions into some Cult of America bank account, don't you think? That would at least make a little sense. Still weird, but with a little logic thrown in. |
Perhaps it's the Department of Evil.
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Themagician
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| StuR wrote: |
| Bryce, thanks for the deluge of emails - they were a little rude, though. And weird. And the phone calls! I'm impressed you figured out my phone number here at work, but dude. That's ... you know ... creepy. And the messages on the company voice mail were, like, creepiER. Maybe you could work on weening yourself off the caffeine drip + code crunches and catch some sleep once in a while instead of staying up all night, panting into the receiver. |
Your welcome. At least, I know how to answer a phone when somebody is calling with advice. Whatever. I'm not going to let myself be destracted by a little kid that doesn't know the difference between a port scan and a full syn attack. It is no wonder they are sending jobs outside of the country if you represent the people they have to hire from.
But, like I said, I'm not going to be destracted by you anymore. I don't mean to offend. I'm really on to something here and you really do not help me at all. I can see that we are on the edge of a big discovery. Something that will open a whole layer of the signal we haven't been looking at.
Xé:3a MEANS something. It isn't a random key.
There's just so many variables to it that a kid like you wouldn't know what to do with. I've drawn and redrawn it on my whiteboard in the office a dozen times just trying to make everything fit. I lied earlier and said that I was redesigning the new data center cage.
Maybe you could be of some help. I'm about out of Mountain Dew. Make yourself useful and bring me some more. 
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James Stone
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Themagician wrote: |
Xé:3a MEANS something. It isn't a random key.
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Means something in what way? Where would we use this string? When it is used during the telnet to 5217 you are given a response of Xú:3a. Entering this during telnet gives nothing we haven't seen before. |
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Biff
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Themagician wrote: |
Xé:3a MEANS something. It isn't a random key. |
Just tossing out this observation, may mean nothing may be the secret to an eternal life with 72 full breasted virgins and assorted livestock....
...ahem....
anyway: When keying Xé:3a into the port muncher at 5217, you get a result of "supplicant" on the sozarohc logs. Since XΘ:3a returns an auth/stale, I tried every combination of X<extended ASCII>:3a to no avail.
But decoding the string to hex results in:
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X é : 3 a
88 130 58 51 97
58 82 3A 33 61
SU PP LI CA NT
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There is one instance in the log of an OCCULATION, which may just be be a Chorazos-monkey coding error, but it does contain 10 characters.....
Something to consider...or just bag it and put some fire to some meat for this fine mammorial day weekend. (and don't forget the beer) |
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Konamouse
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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So, if we want a different result in the log, we should work backwards in hex to find another key to enter?????
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Themagician
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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There's something so close that I can taste it.
The whiteboard is getting organized. It looks like a CAD design. There are starcharts and moon phases and more strange Arabic. What it means, I don't know. But I will know. No matter what.
The whole MUD engine is some kind of bridge between the socket handling on strange port numbers. The missing chunks that must have been cleaned up by Dreamhost are starting to fit more obviously in the blank spaces across damaged file surfaces that other things HAVE to connect to. If I had a tcpdump of whatever those sockets were streaming during “occultation” I’m convinced it would just open up and reveal to me all of its secrets. Open sesame.
I'm going to use the eraser one more time and try to sketch this out from a different perspective.
I am close. So close.
I can feel it.
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Biff wrote: |
But decoding the string to hex results in:
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X é : 3 a
88 130 58 51 97
58 82 3A 33 61
SU PP LI CA NT
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Nice leet codebreaking skeelz, Biff! Except I don't really follow the last step.
The steps as I see them:
step 1 -> decimal ASCII code of Xé:3a
step 2 -> hexadecimal code of Xé:3a
step 3 -> ? (profit?)
Just wondering... 
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Biff
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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But decoding the string to hex results in:
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X é : 3 a
88 130 58 51 97
58 82 3A 33 61
SU PP LI CA NT
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Nice leet codebreaking skeelz, Biff! Except I don't really follow the last step.
The steps as I see them:
step 1 -> decimal ASCII code of Xé:3a
step 2 -> hexadecimal code of Xé:3a
step 3 -> ? (profit?)
Just wondering... |
Exactly! Don't you see?!
Yeah, me either...
I just threw it out there because it looked interesting...
hoping someone would see something...
I think the magician has taken the happy pills...
or he knows something he isn't sharing...
dot dot dot!!! |
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WolfHawk
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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As far as missing something - we still haven't figured out the red circled words or the random pages other than determining where they came from.
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Unfictionrose
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| The whole MUD engine is some kind of bridge between the socket handling on strange port numbers. |
Is there a way to explain this more simply? If so, would you mind posting it? I'm slowly following along. 
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Themagician
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So I’m rethinking this whole dead bird thing. It is symbolic!
It is the key to unlocking something!
It ends up, the oldest recorded magic isn’t the grifter’s trick of the cups and balls after all.
They don’t have to stay dead!
Dedi had it right in 2700 BC.
Who knows, maybe my uncle didn’t leave the dead doves that way for long either. Maybe he brought them back and set them free!
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Dashcat
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: |
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ooh thats bizarre. I hope The Magician hasn't crossed over.
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Sapagoo
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Themagician wrote: |
So I’m rethinking this whole dead bird thing. It is symbolic!
It is the key to unlocking something!
It ends up, the oldest recorded magic isn’t the grifter’s trick of the cups and balls after all.
They don’t have to stay dead!
Dedi had it right in 2700 BC.
Who knows, maybe my uncle didn’t leave the dead doves that way for long either. Maybe he brought them back and set them free! |
I found several of themagician's references at wikipedia in the article on
Timeline of magic
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| 2700BC - The reputed first known performance of a conjuring effect (cups and balls) by the magician Dedi in ancient Egypt. Dedi has done other effects by decapitating a birds head and reattach the head resurrecting it. (This is disputed as there is nothing in the reference to Dedi, specifically in the Westcar Papyrus, to indicate that he did the cups and balls for anyone. The famous drawing of two men performing the cups and balls, from the tomb and Beni Hasan is believed by most experts to be bakers making bread with bread molds.) |
I don't see any reference to Xé:3a on that page, although I did notice this line
1926 - On All Hallows Eve at 1:26 pm, Harry Houdini dies.
Also, someone in chat noticed that Xé:3a, when shifted 18 ascii characters, gives you "jöLEs". Maybe Joles is an ex-Sentry. Maybe he is chorazos. Anyone? |
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Biff
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Hmmmm
White doves.
Strange Symbols.
It's Prince!
Let us know when you figure it out.
In the meantime.
GOATSE!
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Sphinx
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Biff, I believe our minds have a strong psychic connection this morning.
Meanwhile, are there caves in the MUD, yet? To carry the dove speculation to a next step, if the dead live, what strange rebirths might be percolating in the cave wombs?
Although as far as I've seen posted, we haven't had flocks of doves in the physical world, so I don't think anyone needs to fear any strange, slow, persistant knocks at the door in the middle of the night, yet. |
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