Segmentation fault Mystery Cache
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The above coordinates are simply: WRONG
At the cache coordinates a lot of segmentation faults have been
produced during the years 
but you will not be able to find the
cache there.
Oh no, our computer
has been invaded by a really nasty bug! Whatever we try to do, we
just get segmentation faults. 
But fear not, with your leet skillz you should be able to see the
coordinates anyway. All you need is a lookup table and a bit of
imagination!
So what is this all about? Well, that is for you to figure out! As
soon as you have figured out what this is all about you just have
to lookup what that message is. Sorry, I forgot one thing: For the
very last part you need to use a bit of imagination to fix the
segmentation fault. The very advanced mystery solver would of
course not only use a lookup table and imagination to solve the
mystery, he would also assemble his own little device to display
the coordinates in bright red color!
Some people might think that a lookup table and a bit of
imagination is not enough to solve this mystery. But I can assure
you that it is enough. So what kind of lookup table do you need?
Well, what kind of lookup table is useful when you want to display
coordinates or other messages that consist mostly of digits? If you
say ascii I would say that it is a bit of overkill. After all, you
don't really need 7 bits to represent a digit, do you? Most people
would agree that 7 letters is enough for that. And with the bit of
imagination I hope you have, 6 letters would be enough. Not only is
6 letters enough to represent a digit, it is actually enough to
also give you a hint on where this cache is hidden.
But if 6 letters is enough to represent a digit, why is the message
coded with something that looks like 7-bit code? Tricky question,
isn't it? First of all, if you look closely at the code you will
see that it is actually more like 6-bit code. But still, far from
the beauty of the 6 letters. Well, sometimes you just have to adapt
to other people's standards. And this is one of those cases.
The cache is hidden close to the kind of device where segmentation
faults sometimes occurred in the past, but thanks to modern
techniques almost never nowadays.
15 00
53 70
63 00
71 73 00
57
57
77 02 00
47 00
30 30
63 00
53 73 00
73 71
30 02 00
06 00
37 04 15
07 00
01 00
04 15 53 04
35 47
01 36
67 00
53
76 36
07 37 00
47 15
35 00
06 00
56 76 00
56 47
07 00
04 07
Good luck and be careful not to be bitten by any bugs when
searching for the cache!
Please do not upload any pictures of the hiding place!
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
nop_rst