I've been hacking Cod blops 1 AMA

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yuki2054

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I've just been hacking Callofduty Black ops 1 again. I'very figured out how to get in to some top secret CIA accounts. Including London Borough JoHnson and John F Kennedy. Reading their emails and what not.

That stuff is easy. The usernames and passwords are all online.

Something however thathe I haven't seen done before is hacking the ciphers.

In theory this is easy. For the alpha strings, all you have to do is type DECODE **the letters**

And bingo. The first string is someone's password to another server. But you can get this online anyway.

What I haven't seenoticed elsewhere, is two longer alpha strings. Which are harder to crack. Mainly because some of the lenters are quite difficult to distinguish. So for example an m could be a n and a v could be a w or a u. And for sixty plus character strings, this can become difficult. Also bearing in mind that these are fragments anyway.

The first string had something about (working in) formation, and the second about Ascension being from Tmma, cool huh?

Bearing in mind that these are only fragments, i've given up on it for tonight. I also have some numeric ciphers to crack. But I don't know if I can decode these in the same way? Or maybe if I find the corresponding letters in the alphabet (a is 1, c is 3 etc) and then decode the corresponding letters in that way. It's fun and interesting, in a needy kind of way! Ask me anything??
 

yuki2054

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I have just decoded the first two ciphers again:

R THINKCHELON MEANS I ORMATIO

AND WE AR SURE ASCENSIOT MEANS COM

I think the first one is : our think tank means in formation

And the second one means : and we are sure ascension means community/comrades/or command (?)

I am grateful for any (constructive) second opinions?

Bearing in mind I had trouble reading some of the characters, and they were only fragments to begin with. I'd say my code is 90% correct?
 

nuraknu

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I don't play cod so I'm going to need screenshots of you're doing in context to get the full picture
 

yuki2054

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I don't play cod so I'm going to need screenshots of you're doing in context to get the full picture
ThE correctly transcribed messages are: Echelon means information, and Ascension means command. This is taken from the Pentagon. So is top secret. But it is from the game, which is public domain!
 

yuki2054

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This is the code I get from that. As you can see it is basically nonsense. I think there is something wrong with my system. Needs more work...
 

yuki2054

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I don't play cod so I'm going to need screenshots of you're doing in context to get the full picture
I just found out that I need to buy John F Kennedy's book 'Profiles in Courage' because the keys to unlocking the number ciphers is in there!?
 

yuki2054

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yuki2054 @yuki2054 thx for posting screenshots. Cool work.
I think I have figured out how to crack the numeric cipher. The key is in John F Kennedey's book he wrote while he was at uni. Called profiles in Courage I think.

The keys are from different chapters, and we have to take the key value away from the letters value (being a to z=0 to 25) with numbers that go over looping.

I am going to buy this book. To see if I can crack the code!
 

yuki2054

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Wait

I'm in the motherfucken geek haven!

ECHELON KZMRXZVMEVKGHIMCNTPBTIMDTQYMMYMKZRGRGTQTMFURUUMFUWMZURXZURXZLGTTZDYZGIMPGRGMFHEJMMLZQYZMQHXZQTEGMCNGXZRWZTZMXZMVZLZZPNTRHDJEDHDLZMURXZMURXZIZHMHRXZTDYZMQJMFHJMHXZJMRHTZUFUZRGGTMLZTMIMHZVZCNTPAG

ASCENSION PWZPNTTVMRTTMWZFHPUMRTHFHCJMMDTKZRTQWZRHRTEGXZJMFGMHEKZKMRTZRTGQMRTXMHKMEIZGMXZEGEGRGH

Please DECODE these using the secret computer hidden in the torture room, at the beginning of Call of Duty, black ops 1! Thanks?
 

yuki2054

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Nov 8, 2016
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We were just playing cod blops 1 zombies, and there were four of us. Working as a team. Killing all the zombies. But one by one, they gained on us. Til we were all dead.

I was using the shotgun, which I like because it is lethal at close range. But the two sheLl capacity, meant that when the zimbues piled up, I was always on the back foot. Still a great game though?!