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[PUZZLE] 11-02-06 Rachav/Missed Ride
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:26 am
by NASAboy
aHR0cDovL3JhY2hhdi5yZWRpcmVjdG 1lLm5ldC8=
What could this be????
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:31 am
by covedweller
Rename this to a [Puzzle] thread, please! (use the edit button)
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:37 am
by flamencopirate
it looks like the end of a url, but slapping it into google gave me nothing. I'm trying to get in touch with Tachy... we'll see how successful it proves.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:38 am
by tigerlilylynn
Looks cypherish...not that I know how to work any. There are several tools on the link below but they focus on letter only cyphers. it looks like an image link kinda. /uselessness
unfiction tools
http://www.unfiction.com/resource/otools/
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:48 am
by taiya
Could it connect in anyway to the text in the third video or the song played in it?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:50 am
by covedweller
It has got to be a code. Maybe it is encoded like the file names on the card she left?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:54 am
by taiya
that was a hex representation of text. This isn't the same. I'm converting it to hex and binary, but that just turns into numbers.
I thought maybe it would be binary - morse, but I think you need spaces to have that make sense and I can't see how that would work.
This is what it is in binary if it helps anyone, but I can't see anything.
011000010100100001010010001100000110001101000100011011110111011
001001100001100110100101001101000010110010011001001101000011010
000110010001101001001101010111100101011010010101110101001001110
000011000110110110101010110011010100110010001000111001000000011
000101101100010011000110110100110101011011000110010001000011001
1100000111101001000000000110100001010
*Edit: wrapped the binary
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:54 am
by NASAboy
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:56 am
by taiya
Oh cool! I've never seen base 64 before.
How did that end up being a message on craigslist?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:57 am
by covedweller
Can you update the original message NASA and summarize the work, adding the new link (plus any other new info)?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:00 am
by taiya
Oh, okay, I see now. You just go to the base64 encoder listed on the unforum link given above. It translates into a URL.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:01 am
by NASAboy
Using
http://makcoder.sourceforge.net/demo/base64.php
input code from Tachyon's YouTube page
aHR0cDovL3JhY2hhdi5yZWRpcmVjdG1lLm5ldC8=
You must remove the space she added. Otherwise you get a partial address.
This decodes to:
http://rachav.redirectme.net/
The redirect leads you to:
http://bakersfield.craigslist.org/x/mis/229071500.html
This is a message from Tachyon about missing her ride.
It also contains a message inside. I believe it is from a song.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:02 am
by taiya
Dashboard confessional again - The sharp hint of new tears.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:03 am
by Ziola
Nice work, NASAboy!!!
And just so you know, I've heard back from Tach and she said she doesn't know how long she'll be in one place. She's moving around a lot.
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:03 am
by covedweller
WOW. Many, many questions.
First up: Why in the heck would she go to Bakersfield?