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    So this may sound a bit odd, but i'm trying to save myself from a useless goose-chase if this is an ad or some sort of marketing.

    I brought home a ton of stuff from ShmooCon. Free stickers, paperwork, CD-ROMs, etc etc etc. One of these things was a sticker that just says "MTFNPY"

    Now i'm often hip to plenty of internet-enabled acronym memes. STFU, JFGI, WWJD40D, BBBJNQNSTC, etc etc etc. But this one has eluded me up til now.

    So my question is... is this something other people have heard of? Or is this just some wild goose chase marketing scam designed to get people googling all over only to find a web site selling cheap RAM or leetboy t-shirts.

    any advice?
    "I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
    - Trent Reznor

  • #2
    Re: mtfnpy?

    First heard of it at Shmoocon. It looks like yet another word for FooBar, FuBar. At least that is my understanding. It also appears to be a Perl thang. Perl Programmers out there could you please confirm.

    xor

    It could also be some type of Guerrilla marketing trying to sell merchandise about nothing; aka Seinfeld merchandising.
    Last edited by xor; February 25, 2008, 15:25.
    Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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    • #3
      Re: mtfnpy?

      Well, isn't this nice and recursive:

      Code:
      $ telnet mtfnpy.com 80
      Trying 208.113.236.49...
      Connected to mtfnpy.com.
      Escape character is '^]'.
      GET / HTTP/1.0
      Host: mtfnpy.com
      
      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:31:07 GMT
      Server: Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) PHP/4.4.7 mod_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2
      Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:50:13 GMT
      ETag: "19eb22c-bf-f9276f40"
      Accept-Ranges: bytes
      Content-Length: 191
      Vary: Accept-Encoding
      Connection: close
      Content-Type: text/html
      
      <html>
      <head><title>MTFNPY.com</title>
      <script type="text/javascript">
          document.location='http://www.google.com/search?q=mtfnpy';
      </script>
      </head>
      <body>
      <h3>MTFNPY</h3>
      </body>
      </html>
      Connection closed by foreign host.
      Apparently mtfnpy.com wants you to use the Google...
      Last edited by bascule; February 25, 2008, 15:34.
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      45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B1
      [ redacted ]

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      • #4
        Re: mtfnpy?

        I know, but I am not saying.
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        dopest dj in the galaxy. *mwah!*

        send in the drop bears!
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        • #5
          Re: mtfnpy?

          We saw the sticker at Shmoocon and tried to figure it out, but there is precious little on the inturwebs about it other than (as previously mentioned) some perl references.
          "\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";

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          • #6
            Re: mtfnpy?

            Code:
            OrgName:    New Dream Network, LLC 
            OrgID:      NDN
            Address:    417 Associated Rd
            Address:    PMB #257
            City:       Brea
            StateProv:  CA
            PostalCode: 92821
            Country:    US
            
            NetRange:   208.113.128.0 - 208.113.255.255 
            CIDR:       208.113.128.0/17 
            NetName:    DREAMHOST-BLK6
            NetHandle:  NET-208-113-128-0-1
            Parent:     NET-208-0-0-0-0
            NetType:    Direct Allocation
            NameServer: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
            NameServer: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
            NameServer: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM
            Comment:    
            RegDate:    2006-04-12
            Updated:    2007-11-01
            
            OrgAbuseHandle: DAT5-ARIN
            OrgAbuseName:   DreamHost Abuse Team 
            OrgAbusePhone:  +1-714-706-4182
            OrgAbuseEmail:  *****@dreamhost.com
            
            OrgNOCHandle: ZD69-ARIN
            OrgNOCName:   Network Operations 
            OrgNOCPhone:  +1-714-706-4182
            OrgNOCEmail:  ******@dreamhost.com
            
            OrgTechHandle: ZD69-ARIN
            OrgTechName:   Network Operations 
            OrgTechPhone:  +1-714-706-4182
            OrgTechEmail:  ******@dreamhost.com
            
            OrgTechHandle: MNA47-ARIN
            OrgTechName:   Nagel, Mark 
            OrgTechPhone:  +1-714-706-4182
            OrgTechEmail:  ******@willingminds.com
            
            # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-02-24 19:10
            # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
            Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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            • #7
              Re: mtfnpy?

              Code:
              Location: United States [City: Brea, California]
              
              Preparation:
              The  reverse DNS entry for an IP is found by reversing the IP, adding it to "in-addr.arpa", and looking up the PTR record.
              So, the reverse DNS entry for 208.113.236.49 is found by looking up the PTR record for
               49.236.113.208.in-addr.arpa.
              All DNS requests start by asking the root servers, and they let us know what to do next.
              See How Reverse DNS Lookups Work for more information.
              
              How I am searching:
              Asking e.root-servers.net for 49.236.113.208.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  
                     e.root-servers.net says to go to epazote.arin.net. (zone: 208.in-addr.arpa.)
              Asking epazote.arin.net. for 49.236.113.208.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  
                     epazote.arin.net [192.41.162.32] says to go to NS3.DREAMHOST.COM. (zone: 236.113.208.in-addr.arpa.)
              Asking NS3.DREAMHOST.COM. for 49.236.113.208.in-addr.arpa PTR record:  Reports apache2-quack.peso.dreamhost.com. [from 66.33.216.216]
              
              Answer:
              208.113.236.49 PTR record: apache2-quack.peso.dreamhost.com. [TTL 14400s] [A=208.113.236.49]
              Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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              • #8
                Re: mtfnpy?

                Thought this was old Perl Hacker line code for "mother f_____ _____?" Right, I can't say either.
                Last edited by Greyhatter; February 27, 2008, 12:59.

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                • #9
                  Re: mtfnpy?

                  This thread is now the second result in a Google search for mtfnpy.
                  "\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";

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                  • #10
                    Re: mtfnpy?

                    Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
                    So this may sound a bit odd, but i'm trying to save myself from a useless goose-chase if this is an ad or some sort of marketing.

                    I brought home a ton of stuff from ShmooCon. Free stickers, paperwork, CD-ROMs, etc etc etc. One of these things was a sticker that just says "MTFNPY"

                    Now i'm often hip to plenty of internet-enabled acronym memes. STFU, JFGI, WWJD40D, BBBJNQNSTC, etc etc etc. But this one has eluded me up til now.

                    So my question is... is this something other people have heard of? Or is this just some wild goose chase marketing scam designed to get people googling all over only to find a web site selling cheap RAM or leetboy t-shirts.

                    any advice?
                    lol you forgot wwdkd

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                    • #11
                      Re: mtfnpy?

                      Originally posted by Vyrus View Post
                      lol you forgot wwdkd
                      Is the comment "Who cares?" appropriate to say? Maybe I'm just not feeling the vibe on this one. I am more interested in what other people might do, these days anyways.
                      "Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Groups"

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                      • #12
                        Re: mtfnpy?

                        Why do I get the feeling that someone is out there, laughing at us?
                        ======================================
                        DJ Jackalope
                        dopest dj in the galaxy. *mwah!*

                        send in the drop bears!
                        ======================================

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                        • #13
                          Re: mtfnpy?

                          Found something interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/rjbs/perl-...totally-insane

                          Sounds like it's really from Perl. 5.10 to be exact.

                          And: http://search.cpan.org/src/RHARMAN/P...Parse/Snort.pm

                          The code is something like this:

                          =cut

                          !!'mtfnpy!!';
                          No idea what it does though.

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                          • #14
                            Re: mtfnpy?

                            I'm getting the impression that it describes new features; possibly undocumented in a given language. Though nothing firm yet.

                            xor
                            Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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                            • #15
                              Re: mtfnpy?

                              Between the desire
                              And the spasm
                              Between the potency
                              And the existence
                              Between the essence
                              And the descent
                              Falls mtfnpy

                              xor

                              check please
                              Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.

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