Microdot Madness Multi-Cache
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Go mad Finding and reading the microdots that lead to the final location.
Microdots... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular around one millimetre in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester. The name comes from the fact that the microdots have often been about the size and shape of a typographical dot, such as a period or the tittle of a lowercase i or j. It is, fundamentally, a steganographic approach to message protection.
In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Paris was under siege and messages were sent by carrier pigeon. Parisian photographer René Dagron used a photographic shrinking technique to permit each pigeon to carry a high volume of messages, as pigeons have a quite restricted payload capacity. However, the images were not as small as modern microdots.
An actual microdot technique was used for steganographic purposes in Germany between World War I and World War II. It was also later used by many countries to pass messages through insecure postal channels. Later microdot techniques used film with aniline dye, rather than silver halide layers, as this was even harder for counter-espionage agents to find. A Professor Zapp in Germany is claimed to have been the inventor of the technique, and a World War II spy kit for microdot production was sometimes called a Zapp outfit. However, Emanuel Goldberg is also alleged to have been the inventor of the modern technique, under which hypothesis Professor Zapp's connection would be a fiction. Like much in the history of espionage and subversion, there is controversy.
After the Berlin Wall was put up, special cameras were used to generate microdots which were then adhered to letters and sent via normal means. Owing to the extremely small size of microdots, these messages often went unnoticed by inspectors and information could then be read by the intended recipient using a microscope.
British mail censors sometimes referred to microdots as "duff" since they were distributed here and there throughout letters rather like raisins in the British steamed suet pudding called spotted dick (or "plum duff").
The Microdots you will be hunting for may not be as small as those described above, but they are hidden amongst other messages.You will require some special equipment to enlarge the waypoints and clues. Something that will enlarge the text, like a magnifying glass or perhaps even a digital camera might work. Stealth may play a big part in your mission’s success.
Do not worry there are not hundreds of locations spread across suburbs to find. You tasks will keep you within the boundaries of the parkland area, and your hunt could well be done with bicycle, scooter, pram or skateboards if you want. Time to complete should be less than an hour, depending on your Stealth and spy skills.
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