{"id":98615,"date":"2018-04-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=98615"},"modified":"2020-01-18T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T18:13:12","slug":"20180427-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180427-00\/?p=98615","title":{"rendered":"A cute hidden message in a image to entertain you while you wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the internal Microsoft special-interest group mailing lists, someone pointed out that the Windows 10 Mail app contains a cute hidden message:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: solid 1px black; background-color: #f0f0f0; text-align: center;\" title=\"Envelope with a series of dashed lines suggesting motion.\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAPAAAAB4CAYAAADMtn8nAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAF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\nhxsX8W7XAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 20px 20px;\">\n<div style=\"color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;\">Hold on while we fetch your email.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"height: 200pt;\">Hint: The people who noticed were members of the Ham Radio special-interest group.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: The pattern of long and short dashes that are used to suggest motion spell out, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morse_code\"> Morse code<\/a>, the letters M-A-I-L.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Morse was born on this day in 1791.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: Jensen Harris recently wrote about a secret message hidden in the Windows 8 internal wallpapers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s some puzzle solving fun for a Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>As we developed Windows, one of the minor decisions we had to make was what wallpaper to use for various internal builds.<\/p>\n<p>These builds always leaked outside of Microsoft, so we knew that the wallpapers would also end up public.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jensen Harris (@jensenharris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jensenharris\/status\/987544942938542080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/987544942938542080.html\">the entire first half on one page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Jensen reveals the answer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As I detailed a few days ago, there was a secret, unsolved puzzle quietly embedded into default Windows wallpapers.<\/p>\n<p>It was misinterpreted as an advanced &#8220;anti-leak&#8221; security measure by many users, leading to all sorts of craziness.<\/p>\n<p>I also promised you the solution. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jensen Harris (@jensenharris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jensenharris\/status\/988221471368474625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/988221471368474625.html\">the solution on one page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130401-00\/?p=4793\"> this old post<\/a>, there&#8217;s a story where I welcome Jensen to nerd celebrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pull out your handy decoder ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-98615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Pull out your handy decoder ring.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}