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twexus is posting over at ATS if anyone would like to talk to her. Also go to the link and they have the video for anyone to veiw! Now is there another video?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread67496/pg5

posted on 23-7-2004 at 02:28 PM Post Number: 682869 (post id: 703563) quote

hello,

I already wrote this in my blog. Or at least tried to. Here my current theory about the origin of the number sequence:

February 24th 2003 at 22:41 somebody searched on AOL for 'americanpitbulls' with this URL:

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?encquery=1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504&invocationType=keyword_rollover&ie=ISO-8859-1

And he/she found twexus. Twexus thought that everything between encquery= and & was the search string. So it started to 'remember' it. Why do I know? The database takes note when which
term got added, and what the source is. Actually the IP of this page view in question belongs to AOL, so not much more to know from there.

1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504 is nothing more and nothing less than the ISO-8859-1 version of the term: americanpitbulls. Try it: go to the URL above. then change any of the numbers in the the long string. You will find that one of the characters get funny.

I think that twexus is the only place on the web that ever contained this string. Why would anybody encode americanpitbulls in ISO-8859-1 (and then convert it in hex like AOL did).
With a hex string of this length its it is not reasonable to think that it would contain any other information, or that it could have any other meaning.

Now it gets speculative:

I think that somebody thought (not knowing about the simple solution) that this code would be some magic info. Somebody thought that it would be twexus / terrorist way of transporting information. Which is a very stupid assumption for a giziliion reasons. But there are people literally believing in this theory. They might have thought if they combine that magic code with the OBL video that then somebody would figure out what this number combo means ...
They had no way of knowing that the solution for 1AB02D188BC35723620E2406B7234504 is so simple and easy and non dramatic.

[*g* I only wanted to make an art installation that would reflect on search engines, somehow it got out of control]

:-)

hope this helps ...

Andreas

muppet

Member

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:01 PM Post Number: 682934 (post id: 703628) quote

THE CODE IS FAKE

As I first though, this code IS fake.

There is no "code" on the video file at all, on any of the frames in question.

Please feel free to check this yourself. I'm not sure of my bandwidth limits on this host, so if it goes down let me know. Please Right Click/Save to your own computer.

Here is the original zip file (28meg) as allegedly posted by Al-Quaeda.

Here is the unzipped version of the original movie, avi version (DivX required) unzipped (37meg), ready to play.

And here is a High Quality Quicktime Movie (5meg), clip, showing the portion of the video that allegedly contained the code. It's about 150 odd frames long. If you have a quicktime player you can shuttle through it yourself, frame by frame, using the cursor keys.

In the meantime, thanks to news4u02 and Vortex, who helped me source and decode the file.

news4u02

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:10 PM Post Number: 682958 (post id: 703652) quote

So there is no code on any of those frames? The still shots had them manually typed in?

Interesting.

muppet

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:16 PM Post Number: 682965 (post id: 703659) quote

Yup. exactly. As for who did it, and why... that remains to be discovered.

John bull 1

Super Moderator

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:23 PM Post Number: 682981 (post id: 703675) quote

Thankyou Muppet and everyone else that has helped.

A hoax.

Why??

Well we can believe that two right wing websites were duped.

Or.

That this was a deliberate attempt at disimformation.

I guess we must ask who actually benefits from perpetuating fear.

I'll be generous and say I think it's a bit of both.Those that "feed" these sites with "exclusives" and "inside imformation" have an agenda.Those that run these sites are sympathetic to that agenda and are only too willing to believe.

These views are my own.

JB1

muppet

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:26 PM Post Number: 682987 (post id: 703681) quote

Hi twexus!

welcome aboard. It looks like your interactive artwork took on a real life of it's own! You should be proud of your baby.. I bet you never expected this! Thanks for the explanation. I'd like to say it all makes sense now, but to be honest every revelation here is just adding to the mystery..

Hopefully you'll enjoy this place and stick around.

[edit on 23-7-2004 by muppet]

phreak_of_nature

TruthJustice&theAmericanway
Member
posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:45 PM Post Number: 683036 (post id: 703730) quote

Thanks again muppet

Now I feel like a terd for having been duped by it.

But I guess it's better to get it out there and either have it proved or dis-proved.

@John Bull1
quote: Well we can believe that two right wing websites were duped.

Or.

That this was a deliberate attempt at disimformation.

I guess we must ask who actually benefits from perpetuating fear.

I would say the people who benefit from it, or those you ask you to pay for the "Super Secret" info.

To be honest... I probably will continue to read NEIN, I will just pull my skeptic hat down tight before I do, & think thrice before I submit anything from there to ATS.

Banshee

posted on 23-7-2004 at 03:49 PM Post Number: 683045 (post id: 703739) quote

quote: Originally posted by phreak_of_nature
Now I feel like a terd for having been duped by it.

Why feel bad about it, phreak?
You brought it to the attention of the "freaks" here who just want the truth. In brigning it up, the truth seems to have been found.
If I were you, I'd feel quite proud.