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The Data Challenge Continues!

April 2, 2012 · by Anna Rohleder

Hey everybody, thanks for offering to help us out with our data problem!

The response was tremendous: nearly 1750 people volunteered to take some of that pesky potentio-kinetic data off our hands. Of those, 63 people cracked the binary code. But there was also a second coded message, and only 22 of you dedicated people have managed to decipher that so far.

Want to try your luck? The contest is still on, until 3 pm Central European time tomorrow, April 3 is now closed*. I've put the code in the comments below. If you manage to decipher this message, follow the instructions it contains to report your results. Good luck!

*Winners will be announced shortly

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  • Anna RohlederMonday, April 2, 2012 3:23:25 PM

    010000100101101001101000001110010011000101000001010110010010011001010011010110011101110001011111011110101000111000000000000000000001100101011111100000000000000000010000011010001000010101111000000000000010101001000000000001001000000000111111111001111101111111100000001000000000000010001001000100010100111111010100001000011000010000011001000000110100001101000000011010000110100000110101010100111111000100011010000001001001100100011010001100100000001101101010011000001111010100100101000011111100011101011001010101110011101001001010001100110100011010010011011010110000001100010001100101000011101000011101001000011000111001001111011011011111001111101101100101001110100100111111001101001011010001101000000010100000001101100000010110100011011101100100110011111010111011000100010010000011011100100101111010011110011000101011101100111111101110001011101110000101101000001111011111001000100111010011100110011111001110110000010000000111110100101010000001000011011001110001110111010100011111000100100100100100000011001100111001001000111101010111001000010100010101110011101011101001111110100000110101010011100001001000111110000110101101101101111110001101100000001001110101011110101110000000001000100111010110011000111000101000101111001000001010000010011001111010101011010101101011101001001110110100010010011100011101000000100010010101010001110110011011101011010101111110001011101110010010001010011100001010000100100001101110001011111011110101000111000000

  • UnrealmirakulixMonday, April 2, 2012 3:41:00 PM

    I want of these sticks :bigeyes: :zip:

    Please 32 GB would be great ^^

  • TamilMonday, April 2, 2012 3:50:35 PM

    http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Wait.gif -

  • Brandon benjaminMonday, April 2, 2012 3:54:12 PM

    BZh91AY&SYÜ_zŽ_€h…x*@€?çßà ‰OÔ!„C@hh5Sñ™2j`õ%ÇYW:J3F“k”:!ŽOmóí”é?4´h
    `Z7dÏ®ÄH7%éæ+³û‹¸Z|‰Ó™ó°@}*6qÝGÄ’@ÌäW!Es®Ÿ Õ8HøkmøØ Õë€"u˜â‹È(&z­Zé;Dœt•GfëWâîH§
    ‹ïQÀ

    ???? is this it

  • Anna RohlederMonday, April 2, 2012 3:55:43 PM

    Originally posted by brndn13:

    BZh91AY&SYÜ_zŽ_€h…x*@€?çßà ‰OÔ!„C@hh5Sñ™2j`õ%ÇYW:J3F“k”:!ŽOmóí”é?4´h
    `Z7dÏ®ÄH7%éæ+³û‹¸Z|‰Ó™ó°@}*6qÝGÄ’@ÌäW!Es®Ÿ Õ8HøkmøØ Õë€"u˜â‹È(&z­Zé;Dœt•GfëWâîH§
    ‹ïQÀ

    ???? is this it

    Not quite! Try again :smile:

  • OğuzMonday, April 2, 2012 3:58:55 PM

    Oh no! I missed the first level /:

  • TamilMonday, April 2, 2012 3:59:22 PM

    Are we supposed to report both results?

  • nidheeshrMonday, April 2, 2012 4:15:24 PM

    BZh91AY&SYÜ_zŽ_€h…x*@€çßà‰OÔ„C@hh5Sñ™2j`&#245%ÇYW:J3F“k”:ŽOmóí”é4´h`Z7dÏ®ÄH7%é&#230+³û‹¸Z|‰Ó™ó°@*6qÝGÄ’@ÌäW!Es®Ÿ Õ8HøkmøØÕë€"u˜â‹&#200(&z­Zé;Dœt•GfëWâîH§‹ïQÀ
    0110110001101111011101100110010100100000011101010010000001101111011100000110010101110010011000010010111000101110001011100110100001101111011100000110010100100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000010110111001110011011101110110010101110010001011100010111000101110011010010111001100100000011010010111010000111111001111110011111100111111001111110011111100111111

  • Roberto Rojas MontecinosMonday, April 2, 2012 4:16:22 PM

    I already decoded it :p:
    beside the coded instructions do I have to post it here or something?

  • Anna RohlederMonday, April 2, 2012 4:16:48 PM

    Originally posted by Tamil:

    Are we supposed to report both results?


    You can report both, but the second one is the tougher challenge...

  • krajinovicMonday, April 2, 2012 4:26:00 PM

    Is it ASCII DEC for "11111111" ?

  • SanyaZolMonday, April 2, 2012 4:45:08 PM

    Originally posted by AnnaMetro:

    010000100101101001101...11110101000111000000



    That's exactly the same code that was in second part of email

  • Adib MuhammadMonday, April 2, 2012 4:49:34 PM

    i got them, but i dont have t******

  • Benoit NadeauMonday, April 2, 2012 4:54:28 PM

    My Perl is getting rusty... The first part was tougher for me than the second, somehow...

  • mitsuru17Monday, April 2, 2012 4:55:05 PM

    I did, I have to put it here?

  • Anna RohlederMonday, April 2, 2012 5:06:04 PM

    Originally posted by ichikawarob:

    I already decoded it :p:
    beside the coded instructions do I have to post it here or something?

    You don't have to post it here - just follow the instructions. But if you don't have Twitter, you can send me a private message.

  • pepkin88Monday, April 2, 2012 5:12:47 PM

    What if I missed the first level but decoded today's message, can I still win this beautiful wooden Opera USB stick?

  • Patrick O'ReillyMonday, April 2, 2012 5:17:54 PM

    Yea the first part was harder, Dragonfly was dead handy for decoding it.

  • DavideMonday, April 2, 2012 5:23:18 PM

    Will there be a third part later on?

  • Yeni SetiawanMonday, April 2, 2012 6:04:43 PM

    Solved! :yes:

  • Festus IreriMonday, April 2, 2012 6:15:35 PM

    :yes:

  • Ayesh IceMonday, April 2, 2012 6:40:27 PM

    its. 070010010

  • Diego Schild SmithsMonday, April 2, 2012 7:01:06 PM

    I give up. I understood the first part, but the second...

  • Thu WinMonday, April 2, 2012 7:04:39 PM

    Note: NO software required. Just the right website. I've cracked it on the first day, with some help. Opera, did I made it? And the answer (decoded answer) is in plain human readable text that does with the words: Congratulations.

  • Thu WinMonday, April 2, 2012 7:11:13 PM

    Is there a third challenge as hinted by the second code? I've pmed you the answer to both quest challenge. Did you get it? Do you get an extra chance by cracking the second challenge?

    And Tamil did you manage to solve it with or without my help?

  • Thu WinMonday, April 2, 2012 7:17:32 PM

    Also, bad challenge as it can simply be solved without cracking the code or doing anything.

  • UnrealmirakulixMonday, April 2, 2012 7:25:37 PM

    -> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0100001001011010011010000011100100110001010000010101100100100110010100110101100111011100010111110111101010001110000000000000000000011001010111111000000000000000000100000110100010000101011110000

  • Martin PiatkaMonday, April 2, 2012 7:26:35 PM

    I missed the first one, but I did this one. Do I have a chance to win?

  • SeanMonday, April 2, 2012 8:17:33 PM

    Thanks for participating in our April Fools joke. You’re awesome!

  • AndrzejMonday, April 2, 2012 9:00:06 PM

    Hey, you've linked this page: http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2012/04/01/please-help-us-with-our-data-problem which leads to this old one: http://www.opera.com/portal/getdata/
    You'd redraft that text to be precise :p:

  • Vlad ShumkinTuesday, April 3, 2012 12:42:51 AM

    Dang... Came to the bzipped string and cant figure out how to decompress it. All the python examples show how to compress a string and then decompress it. But how to decompress some raw data? Need more clues!

  • Lisandro PinTuesday, April 3, 2012 12:58:50 AM

    Solved! :bigsmile: No twitter here, so PM is on the way.

  • dacuanTuesday, April 3, 2012 7:09:24 AM

    Solved! I've got first Tweet :bigsmile:
    PS First one was harder!

  • Anna RohlederTuesday, April 3, 2012 7:41:03 AM

    Originally posted by andrzejaa:

    u


    Yes, that's why I posted the second part of the code in the comments :smile:

  • Patkós CsabaTuesday, April 3, 2012 8:53:18 AM

    Is even possible to bunzip2 this code? On my mac os it always gives me errors.

  • Guan-yan ChenTuesday, April 3, 2012 8:55:24 AM

    要怎麼參加?

  • Thu WinTuesday, April 3, 2012 9:12:13 AM

    Hint: use wobzip.org to convert file.

  • Patkós CsabaTuesday, April 3, 2012 9:15:08 AM

    Thu Win I tried, it does not return any file. I took the bzipped code, pasted into textedit, saved as x.bz, uploaded to wobzip... maybe macos automagically removes some characters/encoding?

  • TamilTuesday, April 3, 2012 10:19:44 AM

    Originally posted by wikipedian:

    did you manage to solve it with or without my help?

    http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Wink2.gif -

  • Thu WinTuesday, April 3, 2012 10:36:45 AM

    You need only a part of the code, not the entire binary. Try .bzip2.

  • Thu WinTuesday, April 3, 2012 10:57:18 AM

    Looks more like a USB thumb drive (memory stick) than a portable hard drive to me

  • wenyuanTuesday, April 3, 2012 12:07:26 PM

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  • Afshar Uddin ChowdhuryFriday, April 27, 2012 10:03:52 AM

    ei rokeya tui aamake ki paili khelna putul na ann kichhu?tui yadi aamake sattii bhalobasis tahle aamake bala!eto lukochuri khelar karan ki?Good By

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Published inChoose Opera
DateApril 2, 2012
AuthorAnna Rohleder
Tagscommunity appeal, potentio-kinetic data, data compression
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