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I would love to read this, but I have a policy of not visiting SA while at work.
by kevindication 17y ago
I would love to read this, but I have a policy of not visiting SA while at work.
- Torn 17y agoOk, here's the ghist: - Guy's housing company provides backdated letter of deposit deductions, which they are obligated to provide within 45 days else refund the entire deposit no questions. - Mailing stamp doesn't have a visible date, instead has an encoded datamatrix http://img.skitch.com/20090928-q76qg7y1w575ghbqn4t2uwx4eg.jpg http://img.skitch.com/20090928-q76qg7y1w575ghbqn4t2uwx4eg.jp... - Goons (SA users) tidy up the barcode image with photoshop, and do some internet detectivery to track down the tech specs for the image encoding used: http://www.springerlink.com/content/l847l1357j811101/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/l847l1357j811101/ - Date of mailing turns out to be encoded as 26 90 32 01. Little-endian so, flip and to decimal and it becomes 2009-09-18. Letter is backdated!
- mp3jeep01 17y agohaha, great executive summary Torn!