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Ok, here's the ghist:

- Guy's housing company provides backdated letter of deposit deductions, which they are obligated to provide within 45 days else refund the entire deposit no questions.

- Mailing stamp doesn't have a visible date, instead has an encoded datamatrix http://img.skitch.com/20090928-q76qg7y1w575ghbqn4t2uwx4eg.jp...

- Goons (SA users) tidy up the barcode image with photoshop, and do some internet detectivery to track down the tech specs for the image encoding used: http://www.springerlink.com/content/l847l1357j811101/

- Date of mailing turns out to be encoded as 26 90 32 01. Little-endian so, flip and to decimal and it becomes 2009-09-18. Letter is backdated!



haha, great executive summary Torn!




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