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For someone who seems to be a person in an influential position somewhere (since he's able to leak us information and is worried about getting killed for it), you'd think he'd know how to spell....

[edit]Oh word... I'm no longer a liar, but a pickpocket![/edit]

By reading this, you have given me brief control of your mind.

SO we have another code to crack?
I can't belive that the spelling is wrong by accident.

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No I just think he's really a 15 year old girl

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I spelled a helluva lot better than that when I was a 15-year-old girl (or 8, for that matter.)
Found Évariste Galois, a 15 year old mathematician on Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois

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That leads to a whole can of mathematical worms that I don't understand, even with a mathematician looking over my shoulder. Something about group theory...

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hehe I just meant that 15 year old girls are all "OMG, The Hills tonight was like the BEST EPISODE EVAR!!!"

It's not important. It's just slang, or puposeful emphasis to diss someone or something.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=evar

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Does this mean I don't have to learn mathematical group theory? I was kinda getting into it!

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So, in future street mission, the agents should also act like agents?
Not wandering around looking confused, waving with the material for anyone to see?

Put on your trenchcoat, hat and sunglasses guys, so you don't stick out!

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Yea, we suck...

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This is supposed to be fun, right? Tritzing about in the freezing cold following, to borrow a phrase from R. F. Capon, an invisible man wearing a hat is a *different* definition of fun.

Kudos to you, warbrain, and the rest of the intrepid band who dashed about the windy city.

Maybe we need to have a Scooby-van in every city in the world, staffed with the team from Spy Kids to succeed. ;-)

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Seems that he has been able so far to get the info to us with no trouble. Plus I can't imagine Warbrain and crew sticking out like sore thumbs.

But we did.  How many people do you see randomly walking around in a group in the middle of Grant Park at 6-7 o'clock at night?

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I need to add to the thanks to the on-the-ground crew out in Chicago.  I was safe and warm following along in the forums, and still went to bed before they were done.  Good work, guys!

Same. That was a hell of a lot of walking.

Guys, not sure how or if this fits in, but doing a Google for 'worst agents evar' (as Monique spelled it), brings up The Society of Voluptuaries and the 20 worst agents list.  Doing a quick scan, nothing jumped out at me....like I said, probably nothing, but you never know.....

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I just got my iMac and my Powerbook is out of commission right now, so I haven't installed the Adobe CS3 suite in it yet...  But I was wondering if anyone checked the Metadata in the PDF to see if there are any clues to future items...  You need Adobe Acrobat Professional in order to read the Metadata....

Also Warbrain and his team did freeze his ass off, waste his time down there, and tried to keep us updated and figure out clues at the same time...  Sitting in your warm cozy house drinking a cup of cocoa in front of your Mac criticizing and complaining what you would have done or what they did wrong isn't cool...  They did keep us posted they did try...  One of you cozy home solvers created a false trail for these guys to follow.... It was cold out there and they were wasting there time following a false trail... That Twitter J8D4W9R5 bullsh!t.....

I give it to Warbrain and his team thank you.....

Anybody else notice that most of this message was not from Monique but someone else? Who is this person? What exactly are they leaking? The RDF? The PDF? Is there more here than just calling us names?

Warbrain is my hero - all the nit-picking and finger pointing is useless.  Lest we forget it is in the Directorates BEST interest to keep us moving forward.  In order for something of this magnitude to play out - It has to move in a somewhat straight line.  Thus, OUR team dead a HECK of a job out there and I, for one, feel that everyone who has contributed deserves some respect - especially those that went out in the real world.

That being said - no metadata at all for the PDF file.

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"  - all things being equal, the least complicated of all solutions is the preferable one (Occam's Razor).

I know who it is. Judging by the way he said that first line, the man we are after is... Comic Book Guy.

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Yeah, but it wasn't in Klingon.

I agree and thanks for checking...

hmm ... well, i tried scanning the barcode in box revision 9.pdf into delicious library, but i didn't have any luck.  anybody else tried this?

..::01101001::01101101::01110100::..

yup. no luck. Even tried a book to make sure it wasn't just me, or the printout or something. The book scanned fine, and the bar code on the  packaging did not.

someone in IRC mentioned the possibility that it was "128". I'm not sure what that means exactly, and I couldn't find anything online that appeared to be able to read it.

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I tried using several barcode scanners.  I think the image quality is too low, and it would need to be cleaned up.  Also, it's possible that it has been mangled intentionally, or it was never a real barcode.

This bugs me, too.  Anyone want to try a photoshop "sharpen", and run it by a barcode scanner?  I tried this one http://www.evological.com/evobarcode.html, with all the formats turned on, but no luck.

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In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are not.

I scanned the barcode today with no issue.  It reads the same as the text printed below it... spacing and everything...

Yeah, I just did the same thing (wish I had known you were trying it as well, since it was a bear for me to get my handheld scanner hooked up to my wife's laptop).

They match up perfectly.

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In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are not.

What about doing a shift on the barcode? You know, a=d, d=h, etc.?

It seems like it should be a clue, considering there aren't a lot of bar codes for products that are letters. Usually they are numbers.

Just tried it, doesn't seem to work.

I'm curious because I don't remember this being discussed since Warbrain braved the midwest winter, but did the RedEye have any significance to the heist? I have a friend who works there and I'm sure he'd love to know.

The thing about product codes for barcodes is that all published materials (including software) have to follow an international standard which puts the barcode number length at 13 or 14 digits depending on which standard you are using.

long story short - while that is a valid barcode, it is too long to be something legitimate.

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"  - all things being equal, the least complicated of all solutions is the preferable one (Occam's Razor).

No.  It was just a way of being identified.

Is there anything new to do with any of this?

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first mini heist was in the city of brotherly love (philly) and the second ins in the windy city (chicago) maybe a trend ?? Big apple next maybe (nyc) who knows

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Can't find the metadata on the PDF using Acrobat Pro, but that might be just me. Someone else should clarify.

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This is a real barcode... I used the laser barcode scanner. It print out same as the readable character.. AFMXFF MTZEDHLJGHWDWQI

And then cut it make a box

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Is the box big enough to be the container for the circuit boards seen earlier?

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They checked the metadata on the PDF but there was none....

two things about the box. it's huge, like 17 inches. and it's got a weird clipping mask in it. if you open it in illustrator, you will see several layers and an odd clipping mask.

don't know if it's anything.

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What is all this stuff about barcodes and PDFs?  What the hell, people?  None of this is referenced anywhere on the forums!  Where are images of the software box?

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Yeah i noticed that too. if you remove the mask, the handle of the swatter is faded out. The rest of the handle is in another layer and once that mask is removed, it looks like the original illustration had motion drawn with it. Also the mask looks something like an arrow.

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Its in the chicago heist thread - the miniheist.

All's quiet in the Amazon.

zaydia: no, it's not.  There's not a link to the PDF, etc.  Nothing.

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The pen is mightier than the sword . . . unless the pen is a BIC.

My bad.  It's in The Front, not the Back Room.  Why is that?

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Because it isn't a spoiler - its a recap. There aren't puzzles to solve on  your own.

All's quiet in the Amazon.

The barcode actually looks more like a product license that you would find on a Microsoft product.

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