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July 12th, 2006 11:34 AMEquivalenZ has ambushed Oliver X with overwhelming numbers. Over the last month, we've sent him close to a million digits worth of numbers including encoded messages, irrational numbers, and huge random sequences. Since Oliver X is in MN and most of the EquivalenZ folks are in SF, this has been an e-ambush. This is a fitting form of ambush given the technology focused nature of our team. We did, however, send him a thoughtful Halloween card for the forth of July. It contained overwhelming numbers, of course.
Oliver X didn't exactly beg for mercy. In fact, he responded with threats that would have deterred any wimpy sf0er. But we persisted and after a month long ambush, Oliver gave us the go ahead to claim success.
Sample e-ambush email
This is an copy of an actual email of random digits sent to Oliver X.
Encrypted in numbers
Used an online ascii to binary/octal/hex converter to encrypt messages to Oliver X
Snail Mail Numbers
A thoughtful Halloween Card sent on Independence day.
eAmbush message and Response
This email shows the ambush message and Oliver X's initial response.
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As per your request, Aaro, I've included a copy of that response.
I'm afraid I never got your Halloween card.
I also didn't get most of your SF0 messages, thanks to the following procmail recipes:
:0B:
* From: daemon@sf0.org
* \d\d\d\d\s+\d\d\d\d\s+\d\d\d\d\s+\d\d\d\d
sf0-ambush-junk
:0B:
* From: daemon@sf0.org
* \d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d
sf0-ambush-junk
So, Oliver has now given us information on how to format our messages to bypass his procmail rules.
I smell a "Do Over" task...
Yeah... I was pretty sure that you'd use filters, that's why I started sending you valuable (or at least humourous) encrypted messages. We could have set up auto spammers, but I thought that an auto-ambush was lame and that there was something quaint (in a geeky sort of way) about the "manual" aspect of our attack. At the end of the day, however, I'm happy to know that our sf0 task made it into your procmail message filters.
Hmmm... If you didn't get the holiday card, then you probably didn't any of the postcards either. Hmm... I wonder who's been getting them? Ha! Seems like we may have gotten some faulty intelligence (or we've been manipulated (which would be far more interesting)). So much for the battle on multiple fronts.
I think it's set up so we all appear first on the task to our own eyes. perhaps it is magic.
Wow. That'd have to be annoying.
Re: "...he responded with threats that would have deterred any wimpy sf0er..."
How about posting some proof? :-)