Comments on: Another phone numbers station: 415-704-0402

By: SecondAgenda : For Mein Fraulein

SecondAgenda : For Mein Fraulein — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:16:30 +0000

[...] Subject: For Mein Fraulein – San Francisco (BayArea), California # 415-704-0402 – Telecom Provider: Pac-West Telecomm CL Message + VoIP Transcript: [...]

By: Fourth phone numbers station: 617-848-1172 - Homeland Stupidity

Fourth phone numbers station: 617-848-1172 - Homeland Stupidity — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:30:20 +0000

[...] Phone Numbers Stations The 212-796-0735 mysteryAnother phone numbers station: 415-704-0402Third phone numbers station: 678-248-2352Cryptanalysis of phone numbers stationsFourth phone numbers station: 617-848-1172 [...]

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:34:54 +0000

I’m closing comments here as I’ve opened a cryptanalysis thread with (I hope) a good summary of what’s known so far.

By: Cryptanalysis of phone numbers stations - Homeland Stupidity

Cryptanalysis of phone numbers stations - Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:29:19 +0000

[...] If you haven’t seen or heard the actual messages yet, much of this won’t make sense, so you should probably go get copies of all three before reading: 212-796-0735, 415-704-0402, 678-248-2352. [...]

By: FORT90.com

FORT90.com — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:33:29 +0000

[...] Thus far, there’s been three messages, and lots of people, mostly crazy hacker types and conspiracy theorists, are all having a field day trying to crack the code. You can find information, as well as mp3 for the first message here, the second message here, and the third right here. [...]

By: milambyr

milambyr — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:02:21 +0000

The notes of the music…

By: Krunk4Ever! » Blog Archive » The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:08:44 +0000

[...] The 212-796-0735 mystery (from Ars) – Back in the days of the Cold War, spies found ingenious and unusual ways to communicate with each other, hiding their communications in plain sight, whether encrypted or not. For instance, an intelligence agent (spy) might contact his case officer (handler) by placing an ad in the personals section of the local newspaper. This practice, it seems, continues today. Another phone numbers station: 415-704-0402 [...]

By: Johan Louwers

Johan Louwers — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:26:45 +0000

I am not so sure that euhnegro is on the wrong track here. During the â€˜Off the hookâ€™ show there was a letter mentioned send to the show where someone was claiming that they where behind this and that it was all a prank to promote the hope 6 conference.

Blinkenlights is done by a couple of people from the German CCC and 2600 and CCC have close ties. Also blinkenlights is coming to the hope 6 conference.

Here an example of a very simple Blinkenlights Movie how it looks in the text editor:

@200
000000000000000000
000011100011100000
000111110111110000
000111111111110000
000011111111100000
000000111110000000
000000001000000000
000000000000000000

@800
000011100011100000
000111110111110000
001111111111111000
001111111111111000
000111111111110000
000011111111100000
000000111110000000
000000001000000000

Each frame starts with a @ followed by its delay time in milliseconds. @1000 equals 1 second. Following this comes the image. Every image consists of 8 lines with 18 digits each. A 1 represents a switched-on lamp while a 0 stands for complete darkness.
You may put any number of comment lines between the identification line and the first frame. They must be preceded by a # character. The end of line my be a CR (ASCII 13), a LF (ASCII 10) or CRLF (ASCII 13 + ASCII 10). We recommend saving your file with LF. Two frames may be seperated by one or more empty lines.

Maybe the groups are representing the milliseconds a frame should appear on the â€˜screenâ€™. Maybe it is up to us to think about a way to change this into a Blinkenlights movie. For those who do not own a Linux machine there is a windows tool you can download: http://www.blinkenlights.de/blinkentools.en.html bm_play.exe (Windows)

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:36:24 +0000

Yes, anonymous, and it’s fake. Please don’t call the guy; it’s running up his cell phone bill.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:28:39 +0000

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mein+Fraulein

third result down is one from Boston, well a cached link to one from boston.

By: Kevin Mesiab

Kevin Mesiab — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:23:59 +0000

The blocks of three are probably a step in the right direction, however, ASCII equivs are not. Classic cryptography doesn’t have the notion of the ASCII binary map. Its more likely that these numbers correspond to a position in a cipher alphabet.

If they are ASCII eqiuvs, to avoid running into the non printable ranges, you should wrap, which is more in line with classic caesar ciphering.

By: Develop-Mental

Develop-Mental — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:47:27 +0000

Criagslist Cipher Blocks…

In part two of the Ciphers Revealed series, we’ll be tackling a brand new cipher from an unknown source. This discussion will demonstrate how to perform cryptanalysis on an incomplete set of cipher texts encoded with an unknown cipher.
The Setup…

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:24:57 +0000

You must have missed the posting of the third numbers station. :)

By: bjuhn

bjuhn — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:24:36 +0000

oh, you did that already, sorry >_>

By: bjuhn

bjuhn — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:20:57 +0000

yeah, this was posted (in case it gets deleted):
—
Mein Fraulein,

I hear the weather in the South is good this time of year. Won’t you call me?

///678///248///2352///
—
can someone call the number? google doesn’t return any results on it, so chances are this isn’t spam