8-Bit Show And Tell | "Super Secret Coded Message" (1988) Floppy Disk: Solving Information Society's Puzzle @8_Bit | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
We take a look at a rare MS-DOS floppy disk containing a Super Secret Coded Message from the band Information Society (INSOC) in 1988. After some initial problems reading the disk, we run the program and figure out the secret code to access The Message, with a bit of help from an ancient Commodore 64 emulator. Suspecting there's more going on, we then examine the helpfully included C source code, and learn of a backdoor code that reveals the true extent of Information Society's plan for the future.

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Download the Super Secret Coded Message files here:
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Links to previous videos featuring Information Society:
CD+G disc running on CDTV: youtu.be/3oEL5vmeHg4
Decoding 300BPS,N,8,1: youtu.be/bVFem3I9B9w

Index:
0:00 About the disk and INSOC
2:43 Loading ATTEMPT #1 - cleaning
6:02 ATTEMPT #2 - copying
8:17 Running INSOC.EXE
11:05 Instructions for obtaining Secret Code and Message
15:22 Using C64S Commdore 64 Emulator to calculate secret code
18:44 The Super Secret Coded Message
20:32 Is there more? Examining C source code
23:57 The Resticted Information.
26:25 Thanks!