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Steganographia

Week 9

You receive an email with the following image attached - there seems to be a message encoded within it. Can you figure it out?

Hints

Hints will be released at the start of each of the following days - e.g. the start of day 3 is 48 hours after the challenge starts

Release Day Hint
2 With a 'random'-looking image like this, the best place to start is to probably loop through and output the individual pixel's rgb values
3 You might notice the most common values are around 100 - the number 32 also seems to appear quite often
4 What are 32 and some of these other values if you find their corresponding character on an ASCII table?
6 You can try looping through each pixel and converting the r, g and b value to an ASCII character independently
7 You notice some black pixels at the end - it seems like this signifies the end of the message. The ASCII code 0 also corresponds to the null character, hence should probably be ignored
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