It was strictly C.O.D. - Recursion - 6/7/06

// Operation update: Anome
// Contents Classified

Warriors,

Liaison officer Merrit has been assisting operatives in tracking down a Cypherite spy within our organization, with the further aid of a mysterious Exile informant. The informant, having finally managed to obtain some usable data on the spy, entrusted the data--but not a knowledge of its contents--to a high-speed courier, and then tipped our operatives off to the courier's route. The operatives successfully intercepted the courier and retrieved the data.





























As it happened, this particular very expensive courier, whom we have encountered before, also carried a packet from Anome, which he had been unable to deliver, or to return to the sender. Knowing that Anome worked--or used to work--for Zion, the messenger was more than happy to collect his delivery fee from our operatives, and hand Anome's packet to officer Merrit.











However, the Cypherite leader, Veil, apparently tipped off to the interception by her spy, attempted to retrieve the courier's data from Merrit as she made her way to the hardline nearby. Fortunately, Merrit escaped from the alleyway ambush, and was able to upload the data safely. The alleyway battle continued regardless, with Veil pulling another of her infamous disappearing acts as a large wave of Cypherite reinforcements appeared.






























Once uploaded and examined, the disk in the packet was found to contain highly encrypted data:

1011101010110010100111010001000000100001101100001011100110111000
0011110010110111101110101011100100100011101100101011101000010000
0011101000010000001101001011011100010000001100010011101010111010
1011100100010110000100000011011100010000001100111011001010110000
0010011100110100101101111011000100110111101110111001000010010000
0011000010110110001110010011001010110010100100111011100110010000
0011000010111001101110011011001010110000101100100011110010010000
1011011100110011100100000011100000110110101100010011011000110100
0011001010010000001100110011011110110010101101111011100000110110
0011011010110010101100101011101000111001000100000011000010010000
0011010010110111000100000010101010110100101101110011001110010000
0001000000110000101101110011001000110010101101110011011110010110
1001000000111001101110101011100100010000001001001001001110110110
0011001010010011101110011001000000110010100100000011100110110100
0011000010010000001101111011100000110011101101111011011100110111
1011101000010110000100000011001100110010101101110001000000110100
0011011000111100100101110001000000110100101101110011000010110110
1011011110111010001110100011000010101011101100101001000000110011
0011100100110010101100001011001000010000001100010011001010010000
1011100100010000001101001011101000111100100100000011001100110111
1001000000100000101101110011011110010111000100000001011010010110
0000000000000000000000000000000000110110101100101000000000000000

The data appears similar in structure to other data recovered previously.

:smileyindifferent:

You are very lucky I was unable to be there. that is my only comment for now.

So this is why Festaneve was following Merrit today. Hmm! Very well, continue.

Hm... That messenger certainly is a fast one. But even the truly alacritous must rest in due time...

- Void

(( Heheh, she targetted me.  ))

Wish i wasn't in combat gear, i prefer to be fashionable when being photgraphed. Although i'd settle if i could have gotten one with me in interlock with the pale skinned woman.

Darminian

(("I see a 'Niobow' in there... but it's being eaten... by some Linux..."))

- Void

The first code I was prepared to accept as gibberish, but now it's a
pattern.  We're obviously not decoding it properly.  I'll
work on both samples, see what I can do.

uh oh outlaw....

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GamiSB wrote:

º² !aspyourGet t in buur, n ge`Niobow! alree's asseady!ng pmblhe foeoplmeetr a in Uing  andeno- sur I'le's e sha opgonot, fen hly. inamottaWe fread be!r ity fo Ano. -,

thats what ive gotten so far. Have fun working with that.

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Ok, this is what i've found.

!aspyourGet t in buur, n ge`Niobow! alree's **bleep**eady!ng pmblhe foeoplmeetr a in Uing  andeno- sur I'le's e sha opgonot, fen hly. inamottaWe fread be!r ity fo Ano. -,

Which leads to "Niobe", "already" and "Ueno" and theres some more in there that if you move around the letters so that you get something that actually makes sense.  However, it's too confusing for me to get, which is why I'm trying to find the way to manipulate the code to produce it the way it's supposed to.

I'm sure that was really hard to understand, so maybe I'll explain better in the morning if needed.

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EndlessVoid wrote:
(("I see a 'Niobow' in there... but it's being eaten... by some Linux..."))

- Void

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((ya actully I was fooling around with it and delted like one 0 and that came out when decodeing it. >.< but its better then what comes out if you just do a "copy/paste into a binary decoder" which is

º² !°¹¸<·º¹#²º : 4· 1:º¹ 7 3²°'4·±7» 0¶92² ¹ 0¹¹²°²< ·3 86±642 37²·¸66²²º9 0 4· *´·3 0·22·7 9º¹ $ ¶2 ¹ 2 9´0 7¸3··7º 32· 46< 4·0¶·º:0«² 392°² 12 ¹ 4º< 37 ·7

very odd if I do say so myself))

Seems like this is suiting:

Caspue: Get your butt in here, now! Niobe's already assembling people for a meeting in Ueno, and I'm sure she's gonna open it, finally. We gotta be ready for it. - Anome

Though I am unsure of "Caspue".

edit: "here" could also be something else, but I'm unsure of what, since I dont really know all the uses of all words... the original text I got there was "ge`r", so I dont know... gear?

Message Edited by Faithlessness on 06.09.2006 11:06 AM

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Faithlessness wrote:

Seems like this is suiting:

Caspue: Get your butt in here, now! Niobe's already assembling people for a meeting in Ueno, and I'm sure she's gonna open it, finally. We gotta be ready for it. - Anome

Though I am unsure of "Caspue".

edit: "here" could also be something else, but I'm unsure of what, since I dont really know all the uses of all words... the original text I got there was "ge`r", so I dont know... gear?

Message Edited by Faithlessness on 06.09.2006 11:06 AM

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Looks just right except for the "here".   Also looks like Anome's been planning all this far too long after all. Zion's finally getting more encrypted messages and getting them decrypted. Great job!

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RogueA wrote:
(( One thing I found kinda funny is we were supposed to take the data from Merrit, but she flagged and hyper-jumped in a span of what was literally 1.5 seconds, giving the Cypherites absolutly no time to actually complete the objective.))

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(( I guess you do what you can to survive.  :smileywink: ))