A post on EYE's Blog leads to a puzzle that unlocks another puzzle.
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Resolved
Discovery
On February 22 EYE published a new post on his Blog; the image reads
There are so many questions…
and links to a new page on EYE Website: http://208.109.1.121/TQ/TheQuestion.asp
The Video
The new page includes a video, with several fast flashing text messages extracted by AUZ505:
- Center: Get out while you can
- left top: ?Password: ****
- Center: 27628626
- Center: Where to enter the password?
- Center: Get out while you can
- Center: How to enter the password?
- Center: ?
The video includes an audio track of a phone ringing twice.
Screen captures of some of the text in the video
Solution
The Password
Talaisan decoded on February 23 the number 27628626 into the password by using standard phone keys encoding:
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqrs | tuv | wxyz |
Therefore
27628626
croatoan
Where and How to use the password
snorkle256, on February 23, recognized the "?password? hint in the video as a suggestion on how the password can be used. Specifically this is a hint to add the password to the URL of the web site: http://208.109.1.121/TQ/TheQuestion.asp?password=croatoan
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