Apparently the sites are on dialup links or they are slashdotted to the
point of taking forever to download the mpeg audio. I didn't want to hear
it that badly. Is it just morse code groups or what?
I got one of those Timex data link watches a few years back and it had a
plastic band. I noticed that there was a bunch of 1's and 0's in lines on
it so I started wondering. It was ASCII code and it spelled out a message.
"Listen to the Light." I looked around but nobody was giving out any prizes
for it so I been bummed out ever since.
What a way to spend a monday evening.
At 12:59 PM 4/10/00, you wrote:
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>Well that was too easy!
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>*** WARNING ***
>Spoilers to the Internet Number Station Follow. Do not read further if you
>want
>to crack it yourself.
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>It's the ascii values transmitted in 3 digit pairs.
>VB code to translate follows:
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>For counter = 1 To Len(strNumbers) Step 3
> strOut = strOut & Chr(Mid(strNumbers, counter, 3))
>Next
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>'Cmon. Challenge me!
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>- -Kevlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>At 10:36 AM 4/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
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> >If you're a shortwave radio junkie, you probably already know what
> >the term "number station" means. If you're like me (an Internet geek
> >who's never touched a shortwave radio) then you may not have any idea
> >what a number station is, let alone why they're so cool. In short,
> >the stations are either a complete hoax or the cheapest, best way to
> >send encrypted messages to people all over the world. They've been
> >around since the 40's, and still no one knows exactly what they mean.
> >In the spirit of crypto advocacy, TSG has set up it's own Internet
> >Number Station at <http://www.shmoo.com/numbers/>. We've enciphered a
> >message into numbers and are broadcasting it across the net. If
> >you're the first to break the code, you'll win a free DVD. The first
> >contest is easy, and they'll get harder as new ones start, so play
> >early if you don't want to think too hard.
> >- --
> >Paul Holman
> >Special Agent
> >The Shmoo Group
> ><http://www.shmoo.com/>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ><http://www.shmoo.com/~pablos/>
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