For those without Tor and fancy consoles there's sometimes a clearnet Java-based forwarder running on http://codeseekah.com/cicada/console.html (uptime not guaranteed), also clearnet codeseekah.com:3301 will get you the forwarded console (http://codeseekah.com/cicada/console.newnym.php forces a new identity request in case console is not operational, may help, but don't do it frequently).
This is how telnetting console looked:
Web browsers are useless here.
,+++77777++=:, += ,,++=7++=,,
7~?7 +7I77 :,I777 I 77 7+77 7: ,?777777??~,=+=~I7?,=77 I
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77+7I 777~,,=7~ ,::7=7: 7 77 77: 7 7 +77,7 I777~+777I= =:,77,77 77 7,777,
= 7 ?7 , 7~,~ + 77 ?: :?777 +~77 77? I7777I7I7 777+77 =:, ?7 +7 777?
77 ~I == ~77= +777 777~: I,+77? 7 7:?7? ?7 7 7 77 ~I 7I,,?7 I77~
I 7=77~+77+?=:I+~77? , I 7? 77 7 777~ +7 I+?7 +7~?777,77I
=77 77= +7 7777 ,7 7?7:,??7 +7 7 77??+ 7777,
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7I7I?77 ~ +7:77, ~ +7,::7 7
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:
Welcome.
Not a webserver.
The command you typed
Does not seem to exist
But countless more do.
command not found
Not a typewriter
Commands:
Command: help, get help
Output: help, [number] (or number [number]), count [phrase], hello
Command [number]: outputs factors for a number (or series of numbers), if number is a prime, tries to factor the reverse of it, if number is palindrome outputs +, if word between numbers - outputs ..., max number is 0xffffffffffffffff anything beyond outputs 0 0
Command:
hello, hi, get message, get 3301, get 1033
Output: http://pastebin.com/uCTgE2KA
Command: clue, hint, get hint
Output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tbbZd5vy https://pastee.org/tjdbs
Command: primes
Output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xGY4pbHV note: some ptimes are missing, might be relevant
Missing primes: http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/What_We_Know#Telneting_PRIMES
Command: exit, bye, goodbye, quit Command: cicada, adacic - outputs a +
Error messages are output at random for commands that are invalid (6 in total):
?SYNTAX ERROR, Not a typewriter, The command you typed Does not seem to exist But countless more do., Bad command or file name, command not found, %3301, unrecognized command \?\
Other notes:
- reacts to as little as "get http" to close connection (partial GET / HTTP/1.x), does not react to all other HTTP verbs; has a peculiar bug wherein getting a file with an extension (js, txt, etc.) actually falls through to the shell.
- does not interpret special characters, apart from underscore _, all other characters (punctuation) are stripped; tabs are also not stripped, another character is EOT (end of transmission) 0x03, a.k.a. ^C, a.k.a. Ctrl-C makes the server unresponsive but connected.
Bruteforce:
the console has been bruteforced with the following:
1. [dict] where dict is a common words dictionary (12Dicts http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ 2of12.txt)
2. get [dict] same as above
3. get [prime] where prime is one of first 10,000 primes
4. number [dict] see 1 and 2
5. random numbers and /dev/urandom
6. all 2- and 3-character wide alphas (aa, ab, ac... aaa, aab... zzz)
...to no avail
For users who cannot access the terminal, soulseekah coded an analog of the 'Count' function available at http://codeseekah.com/cicada/count.html (which is buggy, fixes welcome)
Ideas for people to try:
- Has anybody tried counting the number of 7's in the ASCII pic that the console gives? -Parzifal