danmulvey

I still subscribe to 2600 (The Hacker Quarterly) but that's it. I look forward to each issue and read them front to back several times. I even regularly go back and look at old issues both for specific articles and just to read randomly. They offer a lifetime subscription and I plan on getting that at some point (you can also add on an order for every single back issue they've ever made, which is gonna be hard to resist!).

I just got through this one and was having the same block as you, took me a while to connect the dots. There's a step missing, take a look at some possible encodings before you decompress. Hope that helps without giving too much away, good luck!