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Ohhhhh sadface. And here I thought I contributed. Back to square one - my bad.

found the security map: http://twitpic.com/4zrnox

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So any new thoughts on the code?  I did wonder if they were using another code standard, like the international country codes, but that doesn't allow for numbers!

I don't think it can be substitution, cos the numbers would mean there would be far too many possibilities.  So I reckon they have some significance by themselves, or refer to some giant coordinate system?

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If you extract the numbers, you get a number (281370347) which is prime. Johnred only knows.

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Wow! I've have to read all the posts to figure out where the numbers were: at the bottom of the main page! (Yeah, I know it was said in the first posts, but today I was in a hurry and started to read the posts backwards ).

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If you try to get this T2JBR813WBJYA703E4Q7DGKR4IT2PO to binary, it gives

01010100 00110010 01001010 01000010 01010010 00111000 00110001 00110011 01010111 01000010 01001010 01011001 01000001 00110111 00110000 00110011 01000101 00110100 01010001 00110111 01000100 01000111 01001011 01010010 00110100 01001001 01010100 00110010 01010000 01001111

with Caesar Cipher - ROT13 Translator/Converter we get

G2WOE813JOWLN703R4D7QTXE4VG2CB

or then is something to do with cyphermatrix

http://www.multi-matrix.de/ENnumsys.pdf

I cant figure out something else..

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Don't you think that there is a reason that the sequence is in pairs though? I think if you had to go to that much deciphering that you would have a word by now!  Doesn't mean that you're on the wrong track necessarily though!

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Actually the more I think about it, I don't think it can be a message - there is only one repeated pair (T2), so maybe its grid coordinates or something?

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The japanese word よろしく means just "welcome" in japan. Is it possible that the Directorate is just expanding this heist to Japan? By the way is in the code and we shouldn't see it.

Excited to have a real start!

Don't read the source code. Really.

“Excuse me, I need to soak my brain in acid now.”
“I took Craft Disturbing Mental Image as my feat last level.”
“Maybe my ears, too.”
—Order of the Stick

new tweet from Macheist:

Sorry for any mistweets! We're prepping things for THE HEIST and our programming monkey put in a 1 where he meant a 0. #TheHeist

they want that we replace some zeros (0) with ones (1). urls, threadnumbers, the code at the bottom of the frontpage... ???

any ideas?

EDIT: lol wrote it wrong... ofc replacing 1s with 0s.

It seems likely that it refers to merely one '1' actually being a '0'.
Oh, and probably part of the code.
However, there hasn't been an update to the code (at the bottom of the screen) yet, so idk.

“Excuse me, I need to soak my brain in acid now.”
“I took Craft Disturbing Mental Image as my feat last level.”
“Maybe my ears, too.”
—Order of the Stick

Or maybe they just goofed something up, and are apologizing for whatever mistake they made.

Speaking of swapping 1's and 0's, if you do that for the binary representation of the letters/numbers, you get:

10101011 11001101 10110101 10111101 10101101 11000111 11001110 11001100 10101000 10111101 10110101 10100110 10111110 11001000 11001111 11001100 10111010 11001011 10101110 11001000 10111011 10111000 10110100 10101101 11001011 10110110 10101011 11001101 10101111 10110000

Which (converted back using bit.ly/text-binary-converter) comes out to:
& #171; & #205; & #181; & #189; & #173; & #199; & #206; & #204; & #168; & #189; & #181; & #166; & #190; & #200; & #207; & #204; & #186; & #203; & #174; & #200; & #187; & #184; & #180; & #173; & #203; & #182; & #171; & #205; & #175; & #176;
(Note: I added a space between the &'s and the #'s so it wouldn't do the HTML character representations).

or

«Íµ½­ÇĮ̂½µ¦¾ÈÏ̺ˮȻ¸´­Ë¶«Í¯°

Which I can only assume means something like "I like cheese".

All cheesy jokes aside, I'm wondering if it needs to be converted to UTF-16, since the original set was in pairs.  Too tired to check it out tonight.  If anyone tries it, let us know results.

Eschew obfuscation

This.
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But what happened to the original tweet about the rumors of [MacHeist's] demise?  It seems to have disappeared.

So now with the solution at hand, do these letters/numbers make any sense afterwards?

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