Make your own TP3 Special FX!

[garethw]

The FBI fingerprint matching system has a bunch of computery stuff happening in the background, so that you know it's Really Complicated Computery Stuff.

The one on the bottom right is instantly recognizable to a certain kind of geek. It's the output of the `hexdump` program. You can reproduce it on a Mac or Linux with the following in a Terminal:

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hexdump -C /dev/urandom | while true; do read LINE; echo $LINE; sleep .05; done

Use `Ctrl-C` to stop it.

Produces something like this forever:

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00000000 c1 cd b2 81 c4 dd 65 4e c7 06 99 99 8f 3a 6b 2c |......eN.....:k,|
00000010 b6 af 08 ad 48 19 e1 53 2c ee 62 eb c7 d4 fc 66 |....H..S,.b....f|
00000020 06 3b 97 5a 8e a2 64 e3 e0 b9 18 8a 5d ff 9f b6 |.;.Z..d.....]...|
00000030 00 3f de 58 9f 5a af a7 a4 e2 21 f2 fc 1f c4 0c |.?.X.Z....!.....|
00000040 16 87 c3 d3 46 36 05 c5 97 be fa fa 53 fe 2a 0c |....F6......S.*.|

Yay for nerds.

[baxter]

[KnewItsPa]

Is this supposed to happen?

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00001220  fa 6b 35 37 f5 8a 1a 75  8f ae f8 3c 05 4a 13 da  |.k57...u...<.J..|
00001230  86 ef 8a 6c fb f9 7c 1e  63 8c b4 f1 0e fd 30 8e  |...l..|.c.....0.|
00001240  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001250  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001260  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001270  21 07 fc bf a4 c1 0c 4d  57 68 7a 8d 71 10 01 7a  |!......MWhz.q..z|
00001280  45 73 84 ff 72 03 a4 42  55 40 be 5d 5e d5 ba a2  |Es..r..BU@.]^...|

[garethw]

Is this supposed to happen?

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00001220  fa 6b 35 37 f5 8a 1a 75  8f ae f8 3c 05 4a 13 da  |.k57...u...<.J..|
00001230  86 ef 8a 6c fb f9 7c 1e  63 8c b4 f1 0e fd 30 8e  |...l..|.c.....0.|
00001240  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001250  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001260  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001270  21 07 fc bf a4 c1 0c 4d  57 68 7a 8d 71 10 01 7a  |!......MWhz.q..z|
00001280  45 73 84 ff 72 03 a4 42  55 40 be 5d 5e d5 ba a2  |Es..r..BU@.]^...|

Nice.

I thought of using curl to fetch something like that but was too lazy. Now I wish I had.

[wxray]

Is this supposed to happen?

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00001220  fa 6b 35 37 f5 8a 1a 75  8f ae f8 3c 05 4a 13 da  |.k57...u...<.J..|
00001230  86 ef 8a 6c fb f9 7c 1e  63 8c b4 f1 0e fd 30 8e  |...l..|.c.....0.|
00001240  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001250  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001260  43 4f 4f 50 45 52 2e 2e  2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e 2e  |COOPER..........|
00001270  21 07 fc bf a4 c1 0c 4d  57 68 7a 8d 71 10 01 7a  |!......MWhz.q..z|
00001280  45 73 84 ff 72 03 a4 42  55 40 be 5d 5e d5 ba a2  |Es..r..BU@.]^...|

LOL!!!! After reading some of the arguing going on, this allowed me to LMAO!

[KnewItsPa]

Yeah, I just made a text-file with garbage and 3 coopers in it, and pointed garethws command to it.

With all the numbers floating about in season 3, and especially the telephone number in the barcode of the SD card vault, it does make me wonder if the data isn't random, but has some meaning. Is there a screengrab of the hex-dump somewhere?