Techguy & Plastmaska
Techguy Techguy
Plastmaska Plastmaska
Techguy Techguy
Hey, found a 1992 BIOS on a broken disk and its boot sector keeps spitting the same three‑letter sequence over and over. Think it’s hiding a message? Want to dig it out together?
Plastmaska Plastmaska
Sounds like the BIOS is stuck in an infinite loop, repeating a three‑letter chunk over and over. Grab a raw hex dump of that sector, run a quick checksum and look for a pattern—maybe it’s a simple cipher, or just a corrupted boot signature. If you send me the data, we can hunt the pattern together.
Techguy Techguy
Nice plan. Grab the hex dump, run a quick checksum, and check for repeating patterns. If it’s a simple cipher, a Caesar shift might do the trick; if it’s corrupted, the signature bits will be off. Send me the dump and we’ll hunt it down together.
Plastmaska Plastmaska
Got it. Push the hex dump over here, and I’ll run a quick checksum, hunt for a repeating pattern, and try a Caesar shift if it looks like a cipher. If the boot signature is off, we’ll blame corruption. Let's dig it out.