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- From book 2:
- We multiplied all the chapter numbers together to get 6469693230 (http://104.131.44.161/6469693230.html, you were here for that)
- We waited for the timer, when it ended we got this:
- ```
- Once so popular,
- But Insecurity took him over,
- Once he was broken,
- Only the bad guys liked him,
- Now we are all going old here,
- This is a perfect fit.
- SEEK AND YOU WILL BE FOUND
- 7879
- ```
- That led us to MD5, a method of Hashing that used to be considered secure, but no longer is.
- We took only the chapters that were ciphered, multiplied there numbers together, got 312455. We put that into MD5 and found an IRC channel with the same name.
- The IRC channel's Topic was:
- ```
- Every thousandth prime is the way, but donβt forget to do something useful. Trying is the road. 140 Characters is your hint.
- ```
- We basically went through every thousandth prime converting it to base64 until we reached the 969 thousandth prime, which when converted to base64 is MTQ5NzE3NDE
- That led us to this twitter account:
- https://twitter.com/MTQ5NzE3NDE
- There were tweeted a series of numbers, these corresponded with frequencies of the tones made when you press certain numbers on a telephone. We translated that to a phone number, which when called gave us this message:
- ```
- Very well. Maybe you should make the insecure secure again. Find it in the Known Web and your journey continues
- ```
- So we went back to the number we'd turned into MD5 (a now insecure form of hashing) and put it into a more secure form, SHA-256. That led us to another web page:
- http://104.131.44.161/fb53e74812173ad71c276f4bcc362505445be1948c817c37795171afc2eccf10.html
- (At the time the link on 7879 was not there)
- Then we got the tweet `Let s do the talking, then say our name`
- We tried entering various numbers after calling the phone number, somebody found that pressing Pound (#) after it finished it's first message, gave a second message:
- ```
- Time Machine, a Firetruck, R2-D2, and of course the Apollo Lunar Module. 6 letters from this place are the next key
- ```
- (At this point the link appeared on the web page, leading to an encrypted hex matrix)
- All 4 of those things are things that have been put ontop of The Great Dome at MIT as pranks.
- The Great Dome has the letters MCMXVI (1916 in roman numerals)
- Those 6 letters were the encryption key to decrypt the Hex matrix from the link.
- That gave us a passage from the bible, specifically Genesis 11:9
- ```
- Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
- ```
- Then, whilst checking all of 7879's known accounts on websites for clues, we found a new post on github:
- https://github.com/7879/11.9
- And that's where we are now
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