notjohnpodesta | 199 points
Possible Bombshell! Most "PNG" Attachments in Podesta emails contain encrypted text files. Just cracked one after decrypting font. Contents seem Extremely confidential. Translated directly from chinese, Grammar is off due to direct translation.
Dear Moderator: DumbScribblyunctious, you did not message me regarding post. You closed comments when discussion was not out of hand.
You decided that you had authority to close discussion because this was "Fucking Stupid"
I am done posting to this channel as it seems to have people who essentially step in front of you to tell you that is not the path we want to take this investigation, you lead us no where.
Before I could even provide everyone with my step by step of how I came to this, you closed discussion.
No one knows how I pulled it, or from where. I was given no chance for you to discredit.
Thanks for the equal opportunity!
I will be providing all of my experience and solo investigation at a different host.
thanks for silencing a contributor.
RANDOMSEXMACHINE | 71 points
Mind sharing the entire text in Chinese before your translation? We could find someone who speaks the language to do a more thorough revision of the message. Amazing find, nonetheless.
Edit: hijacking top comment to inquire as to how exactly you arrived to this message and how we can reproduce it. And off topic, another important conspiracy which should have eyes on it is the disappeareance of Assange. Exploit libtards' progressiveness and "empathy", get #RIPAssange trending on Facebook and Twitter. Nobody will care that Assange is actually important, they'll just go like "oh, somebody I haven't heard of died, let me post something to show I care". And people might actually educate themselves on the topic when it's all over social networks.
ThePleiadian | 10 points
Please, let's keep the name-calling (i.e., "libtard") to a minimum if we can. I ask this because the delineation between a "D" and an "R" is illusory, given that the fake two-party system has been foisted upon us. It's a con that works well. We as a populace spend more time arguing between ourselves and less (or no) time on the pedocabal.
Non-pedos unite! Love n' light, sugarplum.
wrathofheaven1111 | 8 points
painting has sacrifice and blood drinking reference. https://www.google.com/search?q=famous+%27Mystic+Lamb%27+painting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd1fLc2qrQAhXFwiYKHcMWAv0Q_AUICCgB&biw=1296&bih=702#imgrc=8cgH2Tei5dolaM%3A
Connection to nazis searching for the holy grail - On the night of 10 April 1934, one of the twelve oak panels that comprise Jan van Eyck’s famous painting, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, was stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral, in Ghent, Belgium. Often referred to as “The Ghent Altarpiece,” - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/21/hitler-s-hunt-for-the-holy-grail-and-the-ghent-altarpiece.html
Juergen Trittin about 80 lines down. - Jürgen Trittin is a German Green politician. He was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1998 to 2005 in Germany. Wikipedia
Commonwombat | 2 points
Some sections of this painting are still missing. Apparently it's the most stolen painting in history.
Graceful_Ballsack | 8 points
I have several native Chinese coworkers. Post an image and message me the link, I'll have it translated by this afternoon!
thispizzaiswhack | 3 points
dont bother till you get the whole thing, anyway its a whole jumble of mixed korean and chinese, i dont even understand it when i can read chinese
MadameInternet | 38 points
How did you decrypt the file?
DepressedExplorer | 35 points
He did not. He opened it in some way that he sees unicode characters, most likely just opened it with a text editor. Then concluded thats chinese and throw it into a translation programm. He has absolutely no idea what he is doing.
nobstruthseeker | 21 points
The characters do not make sense in Chinese. Some of them are not Chinese characters. May not be what we think. Nonetheless, if you can share how you did the decryption, maybe someone can shed light.
DepressedExplorer | 2 points
No dude, i am sure and ✹ are completely valid chinese characters and not only typical stuff you get when you try to read images in the wrong way. /s
Ddtatfbacb | 16 points
I fear what we may be looking at here is a program attempting to find characters were there isnt any so its giving us gibberish.
TedsEmporiumEmporium | 16 points
No source, no evidence, no method. This is bullshit, folks.
notjohnpodesta | 10 points
Chill the fuck out! Posted it before bed. Woke up. Currently taking a very pleasing shit. When I am done I will update you guys with the HOW TO. Cool?
DepressedExplorer | 11 points
Everytime i reload this post was even more upvoted, its already on top of the sub and its obviously complete bullshit based on not understanding how images or IT for that matter work.
Please stop upvoteing. Give the visibility to the real facts
notjohnpodesta | 1 points
Upvotes are for the visability of others to also incorporate methods in tasks they may not have ever seen because it was not upvoted. Chill for a sec.
DepressedExplorer | 3 points
Like opening a image in a text editor assuming you have found hidden text?
Seriously, if you would have included what you have done in your OP, or even answered to a single time someone asked i would not mind. But coming up with this, while obviously having no idea is just a bad attitude.
Its cool that you try and learn and stuff, but again. Mention how you've done it so somebody can come by and tell you why you are doing it wrong. That is how actual learning works.
Edit:// BTW! I am not mad at you at all! I really appreciate people getting into this stuff, i am more annoyed by this sub upvoting this long after multiple comments explain that its obviously nothing.
Commonwombat | 10 points
I find it interesting that some of the names we can translate are Unavem iii, (Angola peacekeeping mission), Boao Forum, (non profit Asian business think tank), etc. I think this might be important and crucial info regarding the CF. Great find.
Cheafy | 7 points
... w. T. F. Which email was this associated with? And I agree with posts prior- there's gotta be a Pede (or someone) who can translate the text as you originally found it. ... we're the emojis there ? So weird. Maybe that's a translation creation?
tudda | 7 points
You should write a quick guide for the steps you took to get here. This would enable more people to do it as t hey are looking at other leads and also to verify your work and look at it from another angle.
DepressedExplorer | 2 points
Tada, you got your own completely unrelated gibberish!
postbroadcast | 6 points
I think you're onto something but some of those characters are Korean and nonsense words at that. Specifics like "Nelson Mandela" and the investHK.com domain are oddly specific for a translator.
PraiseBeKEK | 7 points
The text mentions Russian gang involved and I'm starting to believe it from some of the other websites I found.
This is from my other post, and i saw websites identical to the investhk.com. Part 1 The creator of pipto.com is lassejensen.gmail.com found his email in this seemingly secret conversation with others: http://archive.is/3Q2D4#selection-2007.45-2185.4 I also found this http://domainbigdata.com/nj/DlYRmhB0q1wurK-AV2S1cQ that shows all the domain names that are registered to lasse jensen. One of the website's spiked my intrest was called bestsexprice.com which is apparently offline. Part 2 I typed in "bestsexprice" into google and the first thing that popped up was an interesting site called flagsworld.ru/directorycfo which link you to directorycfo.com as well as other possible websites. -These websites seem to be a market place of sorts.. links to this guys twitter- https://twitter.com/PeteGouldSocial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Part 3 - Forgot how I came to this, but its the most disturbing so far. http://successfulmarketing4u.blogspot.com/ and it is how I reached this website: http://archive.is/wYDPS -look at "Family Vacation are Fun" shit even the creepy fucking van too... but that directed me to this other website for child prostitution in vietnam (I believe). http://archive.is/LXzVn why does it make you choose child as infant or children, and the price only changes when you add a child/infant to your cruise but doesnt change with another adult. Part 4 Using http://spyonweb.com/jkdstreetdefense.com I went to adatravel.net, which is in the same IP address as jkd website which sends you to the vietnam cruise. I found a document on google that had the adatravel email address, hwallace@adatravel.net. Finally this lead me to http://www.universal-spanish.com/children.html which I believe to be the similar to the vietnam cruise but for mexico. To try to further prove my theory I looked up the universal-spanish address on google maps. Right next door to the business there was a sign with a heart and a baby in the middle of it. https://www.google.com/maps/@18.9212806,-99.2415729,3a,66.6y,237.94h,75.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snng2HV57PQsDjT6VK8bhug!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 OH and fucking Ping pong !!!!! http://www.universal-spanish.com/activities.html
edit* grammar
Greenmonster71 | 3 points
I saw "nanny van" in there ...
postbroadcast | 3 points
If I had to take a stab at any coherency in this, I would say it has more to do with money in politics... I just looked up Vincent Fang and the two results I'm seeing are both liberal Hong Kong politicians. With the repeated mention of bank or other monetary terms, it would appear this to be scandalous in a pay-to-play sense, but probably not pizza-related.
When translating Asian characters in a batch like this, mixed with the Wingdings and other characters, it's not going to look pretty or make sense in certain cases. Some of these "words" are reliant on other syllables to make any kind of sense. For example, in Korean, "strawberry" can be poorly translated to "daughter machine."
algorithmicsect | 6 points
I don't think it's Chinese, because there are lots of different characters. It could be any kind of data, which falsely interpreted as unicode text would always look quite like this.
There are lots of Chinese characters in the unicode table, so the chance of something being interpreted as a Chinese character is much higher than a character of our alphabet that only uses 26 letters.
Okatis | 5 points
Post the instructions if you want anyone to verify this and take it seriously. There was already a post from an anon about finding a hidden zip one of the attachments that was verifiably false . That one at least included steps to how they arrived at it (even though it was faked) yet people are upvoting this wall of text without any evidence.
Commonwombat | 3 points
There are a lot of big names and corporations among this. What does it mean?
criticalthinker615 | 3 points
Kashi tribe of India mentioned alot. Kashmere=disputed territory ok indian/pak border
Commonwombat | 1 points
Kashi tribe reaver is a Magic The Gathering card as well so who knows what this could mean? I thought at first it was the tribe but now I'm not sure.
criticalthinker615 | 3 points
It doesn't translate correctly bc it is a mix of languages. Chinese, japanese, Korean and Arabic from what I can ascertain. Only have access to mobile so I have no way of hashing this out but, can someone try to separate the languages and the translate each independently?
PraiseBeKEK | 3 points
IdK if this is pedo or top secret shit guys. This is the list of things that stick out: 1. EPROM-erasable programmable read-only memory 2. Kanagawa ken, Japan 224-004 Address for Tokyo Roki Company, LTD 3. Suyuan Pass Knesset Member - Isreali 4. JENG SHENG - hktdc.com/manufacturers-suppliers/Jeng-Sheng-Co-Ltd/en/1X00BV69/ 5. ia report inflation- possible insider trading? 6. "Ketamine (above the people selling"- dont need to explain that... 7. Fraser Securities - Securities exchanging in singapore. 8. Kokura Taiko - I'm not sure if this is correct or not, but sure is fucking creepy that has the same names. http://just2americankids.blogspot.com/2012/07/kitakyushu-kokura-taiko-drum-festival.html?m=1 9. Mingling gang - This could be a match and super fucking creepy http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-22/local/me-1466_1_critical-condition 10. H.3 of federal - Related to federal reserves. 11.efforts involving the Legco Brief- Hong Kong Bailout? 12.seizures Fraser Securities force debt - thats what bailout was for? 13. "Subjects: Sallow or loosed skins of Zion" - Wtf 14. Yusheng - Also known as "lo hei" 15. Capital Market Leadership "There will be brittle insect control - monsanto? 16. Mount Kawiwang - two things on amazon mention this "mountain" a now removed amazon book "japna make progress every day - dave kvkfe" and the other is english.donga.com/List/3/all/26/194803/1 17. finally eigensolvers impatience - use a program to solve for eigen value to decrypt message? 18. UNOMIL- UNITED NATIONS OBSERVER MISSION IN LIBERIA 19. dutch rdm company which produced two submarines 20. URNG - Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca).
taking a break
DepressedExplorer | 1 points
If it helps, it is just completely random gibberish. If something was hidden in the image, its not that. See the other comments for the explaination.
PraiseBeKEK | 3 points
how the fuck is this random gibberish that is this uncommon? Bro they are fucking talking about defaults on a security company! buying subs, and various international agencies. Ill double check on the validity of this later for myself. If this is fake it is extremely elaborate.....
DepressedExplorer | 1 points
Try what he has (most likely) done with any image. Google (or whatever translator he used) Is trying really hard to give this remotely sense, thats why some things may sound like actual sentences. Do you know the theoretical story about the unlimited monkeys on typewriters and one will at some point end up writing the bible? This is that.
Exec99 | 2 points
http://www.garykessler.net/library/fsc_stego.html#detecting
Exec99 | 1 points
https://www.reddit.com/r/Operation_Berenstain/comments/5cj5ov/being_censored_hard/?st=IVJG6UV3&sh=ad9af9c2
KiA423469420 | 2 points
This is just gibberish. This submission shouldn't be upvoted. Within the comments, please look at this explanation for what's going on with this file.
notjohnpodesta | 0 points
Its gibberish at the moment but even the gibberish brough out some deep information. I will be updating method soon
DumbScribblyUnctious | 1 points
Unlocked but hidden for the time being. In future publish your full findings from the start to prevent confusion.
Officer_Coldhonkey | -1 points
Holy. Shit. Boys.
We are on the path of Chinese nationals cloning Nazi scientists who were searching for the Holy fuckin Grail?
We are way out of our league here, fellas.
If only there was someone we could call. Someone who was better at cyber.
Boys, we need Barron.
If we're going to be tangling with cloned Nazi scientists and ancient Chinese mythology we need a cyber expert.
Seriously, this is getting ridiculous.
You're losing people who were on board not even a week ago.
Can we just go back to when it was a few autists on the chans investigating this?
Member how fun that was?
Member how real it felt like it might be?
I member ):
anatidaephile | 86 points | Nov 15 2016 11:19:28
You would see the same kind of thing for any random data interpreted as unicode and translated from Chinese. If you interpreted it as UTF8 instead of UTF16 you would see nonsense strings of English characters too.
Good effort -- it's not unlikely some of the attachments contain something, but it would seem unlikely we'll have any luck decrypting them. You'd need to identify candidate image/video/audio files, the steganographic tool they used, and then bruteforce the password.
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LikeHellaWTF | 9 points | Nov 15 2016 12:10:50
Should be at the top.
How hard would it be, if possible, to identify separate candidate files.
Is there some way to make an educated guess to which tools they use? Like any guess as to how many different tools there are out there, and which ones may be common in government? (ones sold by defense companies perhaps)
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DepressedExplorer | 2 points | Nov 15 2016 13:12:49
I wrote like 5 in my lifetime, 3 of which openly available. Therefore i can only conclude that there are thousands of tools. Most of which dont leave any traces to which tool was used. There is no need for government approved tools or anything because you can just build those on proven technologie. (Like simple using AES and follow through a specific pixel changing tactic.)
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newfoundland_urth | 2 points | Nov 15 2016 14:21:56
In my opinion the best way to accomplish this is to pool all similar image files, look at signal features, use these as a training set (hopefully large enough) for a machine learning algorithm between the same photos (if available on the web), hopefully come up with a model for deviations in signal features from the original and determine if this model matches any known steganographic methods. Then we can use the right software to desteg them. I assume there are other people doing this as we speak (if the dos attack on 4chan holds any water). If you do not have the tools to carry out the steganalysis then the best way to contribute is reverse image search any of the images you find. As for the png files that are not images, it is a shot in the dark. What do you compare it to? I think we are on the right track, as far as suspecting that the content of these emails are suspicious, but there is no easy solution for decrypting any of these things a priori.
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