Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A Mystery USB Drive Arrived Today

We have a little mystery on our hands. A plain manila envelope, with no return address, came to the IGN offices today with a single 1gig USB drive. The USB drive only contained two files; an MP3 audio file and a single text document file. The only hint as to where it came from is the postmark stamp from Maryland. Below is the information we have extracted.

A man in audio file reads out these letters:

MOD ZZZ JNQRYD3FRP

When viewing the audio file in MS Word, this code is printed:

00000000 00000210 00000825 000000000037474B 00000000 0016FDA0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000TCON

The text document contains only these six words:

Cryptography

Isotope

Philanthropy

Hydrogen

Ember

Rebirth

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