8 Apr
2008
8 Apr
'08
11:54 a.m.
Chuck wrote:
It's hard to say which is the most fun--diskettes
discovered to be
GCR where you have no idea of what the group size is, nor what the
groups correspond to. Or diskettes written on something like a
typewriter where the code's not ASCII, nor does A immediately precede
B--and you have nothing that says "this is a printout of what's on
the diskette".
Hint: You start with a statistical analysis of the pulse stream and
go from there.
For me, it's a lot of fun, ferreting out things by bits and pieces
until the big picture emerges.
If it was a system that I had some significant personal interest in,
I suppose I'd be willing to do things like that as a spare time
endeavor. I've been involved in reverse-engineering projects of
comparable complexity.
If someone wanted to engage my services to do that on a contract basis,
for something that doesn't hold any personal interest for me, they had
better be prepared to pay a LOT of money.
Eric