Our Steem Clan have been searching for this guy the whole week. We have found our first agent but there are two more left to find. We have searched in everywhere, our clan member @akiroq has devoured the book Burning Chrome and yet this guy seems further away than when the information was officially released last Sunday. But the photo has been altered today and a clue came out that the answer is lying in plain sight. Our team reloaded the image in their photo editors and it has revealed some interesting results.
Lets take a look. We started off decreasing the saturation on the photo and yep there's something behind him
We wanted to take a look a bit more so our clan were busy putting different tints and tones to see if anything would come up better. Here are a few more.
I think his forehead is really interesting . This is a photo @balticbadger put up today. I can't get away from a potential q-code here.
I thought i noticed some writing around his eye also . @balticbadger thinks it spells arg which I can see too a bit. The number 6 is still on his jumper, a clue that @paulag spotted . But yet we are still no closer to the answer.
Is it a country behind him? Some people think its Russia, a Chinese province, Canada. The gulf of Finland is another potential source.
If anyone who reads this has an opinion can you please let us know because we are close. Very close.
@msicc and @ervin-lemark focused on a potential lead which went way over my head but it was really great to have them join the discord group. Our core team is getting larger and all help is welcome. You can join our discord group here. We take our security seriously so only Steemians that are active on the platform may join. We have an incentive system set up so if you solve a puzzle then you will get tokens for your contribution. As you can see from above, some of the clues are looking for people. It doesn't require a masters in computer science so feel free to give your opinion. There are hackers after these guys and they remain unfound so you never know. You may be the one who finds this guy and the 3rd agent below. The first agent is found and will be meeting one of our Steemians at a cafe on the 11th May. The book is dispatched @stephde and hopefully you will have it by the 10th May. Fingers crossed!
Anyway I am off to keep tweeking the photo to see if it reveals anything else. Thanks to the team so far for all their hard work and effort. It has been an interesting week. @akiroq learned Japanese ,
@wholeself-in is learning about shor's algorithm and qr codes. @paulag is searching Dublin for a lad with a mole. @balticbadger has taken to the bottle. But you have to admit , it is great fun.
And I haven't even mentioned the art show clue! That's for another post
"@paulag is searching Dublin for a lad with a mole." LMFAO. I would probably have better luck searching dublin than the thousands of online photos I looked at. I even put out tweets, we are all only 6 degrees away
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"in plain sight" has anyone taken a close look to see if his eye is reflecting or hiding anything?
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His right eye (left eye) looks like something in it but think its a reflection
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Thanks for the summary and the mention. So far we are deep in the rabbit hole 🐰😂
BTW, does anybody here have any experience with steganography?
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Yeah I think Julia or wholeself in have .
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I still believe that the reddit and toontown research is valid. Or I simply don't want to admit that I wasted too much time on it 😂
Second pair of eyes would be useful....
So, steganography and SNOW experts, help me out.
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Had a go at photo editor and this is my best shot
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