Maybe it’s just that I’ve been spending too much time following the developments on a mysterious island, but when the story about some secret numbers being leaked out onto the internet appeared, I couldn’t help but wonder what they were going to unlock…

This wasn’t about 4-8-15-16-23-42 though. This time, the number sequence was 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. (They’re hexadecimal numbers- instead of counting ten digits from 0 to 9, hexadecimal counts in sixteen digits, following on from 9 with A,B,C,D,E,F- so the number “F” is actually sixteen, and the number “10″ is actually seventeen. Hexadecimal counting is often used in programming, because of the way computers group “bits” of information in chunks of eight.)

What these numbers unlock isn’t a spiritual mystery though- it was discovered back in February that it unlocks the ability to play encrypted HD-DVD movies on a Linux computer. (more…)

May 2nd, 2007 | Freedom | No comments