[PART SEVEN] - CLOSED
quick note; GUYS. please be aware that if you posted a prompt in part six and it is now screened, i have posted them to the post already - so that you guys don't have to. thanks for being patient and making the fill-a-thon such a success
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Bonus points if Dustin's the one to translate it.
You can find text to code translators online, if you need to.
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It's claiming to be from Mark Zuckerberg, for one thing. Eduardo hasn't spoken to, e-mailed or even looked at Mark since the settlement two years ago, and he's perfectly happy to keep it that way. The second thing is that the subject of the e-mail is ciphertext, and the body of the e-mail is just an incomprehensible sequence of numbers:
10038259 10038205 10038263 10051970 10052049 10052045 10052048 10052048 10052059 9984929 9985000 9984934 9985004 9984929 10038162 10038164 10038146 10038153 10038209 10038144 10038159 10038209 9984992 9985010 9985010 9985001 9985006 9985005 9984996 9984943 9985752 9985681 9985752 9985684 9985687 9985678 9985693 9985752 9985665 9985687 9985677 9985750It's possible that someone is just spoofing Mark's e-mail address. Dustin once tried to explain how easy it was to do that, but Eduardo had tuned him out after he said the word "telnet," so he doesn't really know any of the details of how to pull it off. But it's apparently easy enough that Dustin thought that ( ... )
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ahahahah oh Eduardo..
amazing start, anon.
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:D :D :D :D :D
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love this start. im excited already :D
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Which Christmas party?
Subject: Re: Re: decryption
The first one.Eduardo's been to a lot of Christmas parties, despite not celebrating the holiday himself. His father would go to a lot of them for business reasons, family gatherings, those sorts of things. Eduardo liked the cookies and sometimes he liked the trees covered in decorations and fake snow, but he can't remember ever going to one of those parties with Mark around. At Harvard, all the students they knew were too busy with finals and travel plans for winter break to set up a party like that. Hillel did have a Hanukkah party every year, Mark, Eduardo, Dustin and Chris usually went to together, along with the rest of AEPi. They'd eat latkes and listen to mediocre klemzer and Mark would shove his hands in his pockets while Eduardo would dance like a dork with Chris, because nothing negated the gay guy ability to dance like klemzer music ( ... )
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But he does have all his old AEPi listserv e-mails, which means he has the original party announcement, complete with a tacky animated Santa GIF and Comic Sans font. Eduardo jots down the date listed: October 5, 2002. There are a few different ways Mark could have encoded that information into a numeric key.
1052002
5102002
2002510
2002105
10052002
20021005
20020510Of course, it's possible that there's no way to decode the message at all, and Eduardo won't get anything out of it. But that would be sadistic. Mark is a douchebag, but he's not all that good at being a sadist. Sadism involves caring about the emotional state of the people around you ( ... )
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i have no words <333
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i love the amount of detail and thought you've put into the code. because i can buy that its something mark would do, if he wasn't sure of what he wanted to say or how to say it. i know very very very little about cryptography but i can still appreciate the drama it adds to the narrative. as much as eduardo likes solving puzzles, i like watching him solve puzzles c: c:
and that last line, YOU'VE KILLED ME
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The various comments about how Mark doesn't care enough about Eduardo to totally try and send him insane were really true sounding, it is that that really hurts Eduardo, the idea that he just means nothing to Mark.
Can't wait to see what the rest of the code says.
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This is so interesting. I wonder what the message says. :)
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