[Spooks] Mysterial to Mein Fraulien solved!

[Zack Widup]

Hi Wil,

Do you think they knew you were into numbers stations?

Zack

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Wil Wheaton wrote:

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> On 8/6/06, Zack Widup <w9sz at prairienet.org> wrote:
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> 
> > Cool!  At least part of it is solved. I have two questions, though. First
> > off, what did the messages say?  Secondly, I wonder what they learned from
> > the experiment?
> 
> In the linked article, they've decoded all but one of the messages.
> 
> My favorite decoded one was:
> 
> The number station at 806-224-0272 decrypted to "Captains Log:
> Stardate 200606.2 — Pwned by Ensign Crusher." The group noted that
> this was a reference to Wil Wheaton, who figured out that the "Group"
> number seemed to refer to the area code where the next message would
> appear, prompting them to change their strategy. They then used
> numbers from Wheaton's IP address.
> 
> >
> > Zack
> 
> Wil
>