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Decoding the Unreadable
A training company rolled out online CBT to hundreds of employees, expecting a data goldmine. Instead, they got gibberish—data in a format they couldn’t crack, locked away by a vendor who wouldn’t help. Years ago, I’d tangled with this vendor, decoding their SCORM/suspend_data structure and open-sourcing it (see Brain Games). That work drew this client to me.
This time, they needed quiz results. I cracked enough of the algorithm to extract them, delivering software they now own. Frustration turned to freedom.
