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"As I read, numbers I see. 'Twould be a shame not to count this art among the great texts of our time" Only took about 5 seconds to find.
by amgin3 10y ago
"As I read, numbers I see. 'Twould be a shame not to count this art among the great texts of our time"
Only took about 5 seconds to find.
- okramcivokram 10y agoThat is most likely just a hint, or misdirection. I'd be greatly disappointed if it's not a multi layered puzzle.
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- dogma1138 10y agoThat's the comment at the end of the file, but is this even the challenge? Because it take takes less than 5 seconds to find it, i think this is a hint not the solution. EDIT: Use gimp to save it as ASCII portable bitmap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format), strip the headers and all the junk and you get a message that links to mi5.gov.uk/careers.
- daenney 10y agoSomehow I doubt that's the solution either, you can get to that same link by just using the Careers menu item. I would think/hope it's a bit more complicated than that. Looking at the challenge one of the things that has me wondering is why do they repeat the same text twice, but with different font sizes. This suggests some kind of fraction that is somehow relevant to get further in the puzzle.
- dogma1138 10y agoIt's but read the edit, the solution isn't much more complicated than that either :) this is very basic steganography.
- daenney 10y agoI did, my comment is about the edit. It feels that there should be more to it than that. I would at least expect the result to point to something you can't get at by just browsing around. Perhaps I'm just hoping for more than there is to it :).
- dogma1138 10y agoWell the full message is "436F6E67726174756C6174696F6E732C20796F7520736F6C766564207468652070757A7A6C65212057687920646F6E927420796F75206170706C7920746F206A6F696E206F7572207465616D3F206D69352E676F762E756B2F6361726565727320" "Congratulations, you solved the puzzle! Why don�t you apply to join our team? mi5.gov.uk/careers " So i doubt there is much more to it ;)
- jamesbrownuhh 10y agoI got that far too. I don't believe it - there has to be more to it than that. There'll be something else in that file that's better hidden, for sure, and I'm pretty sure it won't be plain ASCII and hex. :)
- estefan 10y agoI'm a bit disappointed there aren't any hidden chunks that take advantage of the PNG format :-( Uncompressed it's just a binary message of 2 pixel colours, so unless that comment at the end is pointing somewhere else then it's not got much depth...
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- lucb1e 10y agoI'm fairly certain that's just a hint.