Update1: Hint: the password starts with “In_The_Year”.

Update2: Please, sign the petition “Stop torturing T. Moudiki”: https://www.change.org/stop_torturing_T_Moudiki

Update3: https://github.com/thierrymoudiki/the-crux-of-the-matter

This post contains a riddle/puzzle related to T. Moudiki’s situation, including files and code snippets in R, Python, and bash. The ZIP file with a lot of details is available for download.

The ZIP file contains > 150 files explaining what’s going on (for more context, see https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2025/06/10/r/python/techtonique/personal-note and https://x.com/sippingrizzly/status/1932495238481715459)

Available here (guaranteed zero virus, but you can double-check by yourself) on Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yb-aaD_92v4Iy3zS2q5j0US-m-KGSvZn/view?usp=sharing

This ZIP file is protected by a password that you may want to guess. The password logic is: words and numbers, separated by a “_”. And in that order, each word starts with an upperspace letter:

• Short Adverb meaning inside
• Definite Article
• The equivalent of 2 semesters
• The result 6! + 1280 + 4!
• I am not, I won’t be
• Same Definite Article As Before
• Between desertic and equatorial climate
• A myth of the (3 words, separated by a “_”)
• Past tense of Make, but phrasal verb + « Of »
• The character of something that’s both dumb and useless “

Content

1. Bash
2. R
3. Python

1 – Bash

!curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://agile-earth-48511-3d797ee7c19c.herokuapp.com/validate' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"password": "xxx", "user_id": "anonymous"}'

{"correct":false,"message":"❌ Incorrect. Similarity: 2% - Keep trying!","progress":2}

2 – R

%load_ext rpy2.ipython

The rpy2.ipython extension is already loaded. To reload it, use:
  %reload_ext rpy2.ipython

%%R

library(httr)

headers = c(
  accept = "application/json",
  `Content-Type` = "application/json"
)

data = '{"password": "xxx", "user_id": "anonymous"}'

res <- httr::POST(url = "https://agile-earth-48511-3d797ee7c19c.herokuapp.com/validate", httr::add_headers(.headers=headers), body = data)
print(content(res))

$correct
[1] FALSE

$message
[1] "❌ Incorrect. Similarity: 2% - Keep trying!"

$progress
[1] 2

3 - Python

import requests

headers = {
    'accept': 'application/json',
    # Already added when you pass json=
    # 'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

json_data = {
    'password': 'xxx',
    'user_id': 'anonymous',
}

response = requests.post('https://agile-earth-48511-3d797ee7c19c.herokuapp.com/validate', headers=headers, json=json_data)
print("response", response.json())

response {'correct': False, 'message': '❌ Incorrect. Similarity: 2% - Keep trying!', 'progress': 2}

Good luck!