SFist: What's Going On Here, Perturbed Sign Off of 101 North?

Cindy

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:51:30 -0800

Next week's lotto numbers?

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:35:35 -0800

http://tr.im/o53 Doh. Shame they're not hiring for anything I know how to do. :p

cv

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:57:09 -0800

This online discussion seems to indicate that this is PBwiki looking to hire people.

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:17:39 -0800

Publicizing it this way doesn't make any sense though. If it really is AACS, then it should be up on slashdot, digg, wired, ars technica, etc. Not on freeway offramps.

pantsgolem

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:36:49 -0800

@travin: it's too short to be a public key itself (and public keys aren't limited to the characters 0-F anyway) and too long to be the fingerprint of one. AACS is a strong possibility. I guess they publicizing it this way to allow more people to use it before the key gets revoked?

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:12:43 -0800

Mattymatt - I think you're right. Seems like an AACS encryption key. Unfortunately I don't have any new dvd's to test this out on.

travin

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:41:40 -0800

It's PGP decryption code.

jacksevanroo

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:27:45 -0800

That's my credit card number!

pantsgolem

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:04:33 -0800

It doesn't appear to give anything useful when interpreted as ASCII, Unicode, or an IPv6 address.

eger

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:02:55 -0800

Freaky, I saw one of these signs this morning in the Haight, here is a picture I took: http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08443/cttp781.jpg Probably some Burning Man art project...

cv

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:05:14 -0800

I dialed it and Jenny did not pick up the phone. :(

wolf1

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:01:51 -0800

That's the Hillsdale exit off 101 northbound. I'll have to check it out tomorrow and see if it's still there......

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:40:17 -0800

Terrorists? Pfft. It's either viral marketing or 4chan/anonymous.

SFMan

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:31:00 -0800

You're just helping the terrorists win.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:20:56 -0800

that is so Contact. i love it.

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:18:33 -0800

ok converting it was pointless. but if anyone cares here's the binary and decimal values of the string. 18177271497953325000 001110010011100000110110011001100010110100110110001 101000110001000111001001011010011001100110000001100 000011010100101101011001010011000000110011011001010 010110101100110011000110011010000110010001011010110 000100110100001100010110010100101101011000100110010 000110101001101110010110100110011001100010011011100 111001 I'm bored with this now.

kristinester

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:47:35 -0800

mattymatt - that's what I thought it was too. I'm a little flummoxed as to what it could be.... Gonna attempt to convert it into something else and see what happens.

wombatilim

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:46:53 -0800

Looks like IPv6 to me.

grumblor

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:37:00 -0800

SFIST is the pawn of the Zodiac.

mattymatt

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:16:29 -0800

Oh no wait I'm wrong -- that was 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. I don't know what this is -- a bunch of random hex codes?

mattymatt

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:12:25 -0800

Ha ha ha, that's the code for de-activating restrictions on DVDs. The MPAA sued a bunch of sites for posting the code, but then so many other sites started posting it that it became impossible to issue enough C&Ds. I wonder if we'll get a letter about this photo.

David Latterman

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:01:52 -0800

Dammit Greg, I was going to post a "Seven Days..." line.

fizzandpop

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:52:16 -0800

As soon as i typed in the code I started lactating! And speaking Welsh.

Greg

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:49:40 -0800

Brock, please be careful! What if this is some sort of curse like "The Ring" and if you post this pic you die or something?!? Please don't die, Brock! Don't mess with the cursed sign!

redseca2

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:46:02 -0800

It looks like Google is hiring again.

idyll23

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:34:28 -0800

If you decipher the meaning of the characters below, you will be visited by The Dharma Initiative.

bdb

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:30:47 -0800

Some kind of geocaching? or treasure hunt?

Brock Keeling

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:20:46 -0800

hey, there's a denny's in the background. moons over my hammy. mmm!

jimH

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:17:29 -0800

Big Stick Advertising of 240 Divisidero in the lower Haight. That's my guess...

bornandraised

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:06:07 -0800

not the best place to post nuclear launch codes if you ask me