Quote from: micaman on July 05, 2014, 12:05:57 AM

Quote from: mirth23 on July 04, 2014, 11:58:43 PM

Crops solution:

morse code for the dots that had been changed (the reader is left to figure out what is a dash and what is a dot)
$!!!!!$!@@@!$!!!!!$@!$!@@@!$@!!!!$!!!!!$!@@@$@!$!@@@$!@!!$@!$!@@@!$@@@!!$!@@@@$@!!$!!!$@!!$@@!!@$

this translated into: 0-0A-10BABYA-36WOWĐ

someone managed find the "Wow! signal" wikipedia page with google fu that presumably involved the 'WOW' and something about crop circles or aliens. the wiki page prominently features a zoomed-in version of the wow image

several of us figured out that hashing '6EQUJ5' worked as a password for the 7z, and most of us were probably all startled that it worked.

Indeed, thank you.

So to your earlier question, the data left in it is unaltered binary from the original crop circle message.