[Noisebridge-discuss] Mysterious coded message in bathroom

[Noah Balmer]

Now that the cat's out of the bag, here's the rot13 of the original image,
for anyone who doesn't feel like reading in a mirror (read the columns, not
the rows):
cattatsior
otihsoytun
nuoiwonir
glnsaeost
raswyawyu

I'll post something new next week.


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Ed Hunsinger <edrabbit at edrabbit.com> wrote:

> Congrats to Noah for cracking, and bonus points for replying in the
> same.  The message was posted back in October as an sf0 task
> (http://sf0.org/tasks/The-Arcane-Ensconced/) but also as something we
> thought might be fun.  The thought was that person A posts an encoded
> message, person B solves it, person B posts an encoded message, person
> C solves it, rinse, repeat.
>
> -Ed
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Noah Balmer <noahbalmer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > G
> > u
> > n
> > a
> > x
> > f
> > !
> > Lrf vg jnf rnfl, ohg fgvyy sha.
> > V yvxr gur chaavfu angher bs gur rapbqvat ivf-n-ivf gur cynprzrag naq gur
> > neenatrzrag bs yrggref.
> > Zl ghea? V'ir n tbbq bar sbe lbh, ohg vg zvtug unir gb jnvg n juvyr.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Encapsulated within <20090212050219.GD31152 at sfo.thejof.com> on Wed, Feb
> >> 11, 2009 at 09:02:19PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> >> > From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com>
> >> > To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> >> > Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Mysterious coded message in bathroom
> >> >
> >> > There is a curiously-coded message hanging in the bathroom at 83c. It
> >> > has been taped on the wall opposite the mirror in the bathroom, as
> each of
> >> > the letters are horizontally translated.
> >>
> >> Err... transposed.
> >>
> >> --j
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone know where this came from? Without some more context for
> the
> >> > message, the encoding isn't obvious.
> >> >
> >> > There is a photo at
> >> > https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Image:Bathroom_crypt.jpg
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > jonathan
> >> >
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