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A Simple Hacker Riddle
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AdmiralBeotch
16y ago
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Read these words to fulfill your query, And be done with this puzzle, so tired and dreary. Seek a method that encodes a stream, and ends with it's equal, so it seems.
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AdmiralBeotch
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16y ago
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The answer is here so you may not be toiled, But kept ironically obsure, so for others not spoiled.
VGhlIGFuc3dlciBpcywgaXJvbmljYWxseSwgIkJhc2U2NCIu
jey
16y ago
SSBkb24ndCBnZXQgaXQuIFdoYXQncyBzbyBzcGVjaWFsIGFib3V0IEJhc2U2ND8gSXQgc291bmRz IGxpa2UgYW55IHJldmVyc2libGUgY2lwaGVyIGlzIGFuIGFjY2VwdGFibGUgYW5zd2VyLg0K
AdmiralBeotch
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16y ago
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RiderOfGiraffes
16y ago
Sorry to appear anal, but in riddles like this, details matter.
Did you mean "it's" or did you mean "its" ??
AdmiralBeotch
OP
16y ago
I see your objection, an annoying obsession, but, in fact, I mean, the context of possession.
=8P
beobab
16y ago
Are you talking about a quine? A program which outputs its own source code?
olalonde
16y ago
DES ?
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