[zeighy]

looks like we were on the right track after all! If bill is Billy... then Math is Matthew? Just a wild guess.... So what is the pub? or who?

[Lystella]

Nice finds, everyone! \(^_^)/ And based on recent developments, it looks like zeighy and his friend were on the right track. Also, I agree with posse concerning the Grid.

I don't have anything to add so far, but I'll be here waving the pompoms. *waves pompoms*

[posse]

Hi, was away for most of the weekend, but I did receive some more emails. Daisuke Nakamura mentioned:

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I have heard from Inno Ellis that this problem has showed up in another department, at RHEA to be specific. I am continuing to monitor the situation and hope the best that we get to the bottom of all of this.

This is very suspicious because I once asked LAINSY which FAILTECH employees were near James Barron around the time of his disappearance. LAINSY gave me this info:

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RESPONSE: Requested data as follows: February 21, 2012 List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron: Billy Chan Joseph DIllinger Carmella Lopez February 22, 2012 List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron: Billy Chan Joseph Dillinger Carmella Lopez Althea Rosso February 23, 2012 List of tracked employees who has been physically within 4 meters of James Barron: Billy Chan Joseph Dillinger Matthew Johnson Pablo Jose Althea Rosso RESPONSE: Billy Chan is the RHEA Team Gamma Team Leader. He has been working with FAILTECH since 1999 and was initially hired as a Junior Researcher for a restricted project.

I also asked LAINSY to retrieve any messages in James Barron's account that were suspicious and were either sent to/from Joseph Dillinger:

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LAINSY: I was able to flag messages that might be of interestin your investigation: Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: February 10, 2012 Subject: Flight Message: I have confirmed the effectiveness of the operation. I am sure the team will be very much surprised when the operation completes. Your plan will definitely work. Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent from: Joseph Dilinger, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: January 28, 2012 Subject: Walking around Message: I've done the walk and it seems to be effective. When will the Bills and Maths get over here? I am trying my best to solve this and get things to work accordingly. Have you done your part? Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent from: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: February 7, 2012 Subject: Confirmed Message: I can confirm the file. Can you match this? GNL70COX8NZ mvvwuhvulqhrxuliukltdfuxdmobxrulvdtlquhqehg

EDIT: I believe Bills = Billy Chan. Maths could be Matthew Johnson, though I haven't researched him yet. But I got LAINSY to send me any messages between James Barron & Billy Chan:

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LAINSY: I have retrieved two low level messages and one high level message for a total of three messages which is the only number of messages sent between the two persons. Sent to: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent from: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma Sent on: Ferbruary 17, 2012 Subject: Bills? Messages: Are you serious about bills? I find it very amusing you found a very in-you-face call sign. I think it is damn too obvious, and yet I feel like anyone not knowing wouldn't realize it and be too oblivious about it. Sent to: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: February 18, 2012 Subject: RE: Bills? Message: You do know these messages are archived? Let's not even start with the math behind it. Sent to: Billy Chan, RHEA Team Gamma Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: February 20, 2012 Subject: Grid Message: ABF-L20-Z2AB

What do you guys make of the grid message? I believe it's a FAILTECH location: Alberta Facility, Level 20, Zone 2, Area B. I asked LAINSY about it and also told it to conduct a search of the area (maybe the external drive is there) and also to retrieve the records of personnel who entered that area:

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LAINSY: Alberta Facility, Level 20, Zone 2, Area B houses specialized manufacturing of internal company materials and equipment. The entire area is fully automated and the need for employees or personnel is uneccesary. They are only required for maintenance or repair. However, I do keep records of any employee or personnel who enters the area.

[zeighy]

duke9509 wrote:

"Bills, Maths and Pub?" What are you talking about. I've obviously missed something.

Sorry, I was going through and poking through the investigation myself. I'm on a track similar to posse and managed to stumble on a message myself. I'm not sure if I missed it or if I'm dreaming that I read the same message. Posse was posting the same messages that I've been getting from LAINSY so I just stayed on a lurking mode for a while.

LAINSY was able to retrieve a message for me

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LAINSY: There has been one low level message intercepted on my systems from James Barron to Joseph Dillinger. Message as follows: Sent to: Joseph Dillinger, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent from: James Barron, AMSR Team Epsilon Sent on: February 24, 2012 Subject: Odd Message: I believe you already understand the purpose of this message. Do not regret anything, for everything has a purpose. This message has been scheduled to be sent to you on the date I selected. I left behind the bills and maths for you to work on with. Believe in yourself for you are great on your own and all you need is to realize it. Go to the pub. Then, you'll know what to do. Good luck and farewell.

and I have been pondering it fro quite a bit. and of course, I've consulted my friend about this. I've gone ahead and asked if LAINSY can retrieve any documents regarding bills or math from James Barron or Joseph Dillinger, but she said she can't find any. I also asked if she has logged Joseph Dillinger to go to a pub since the date of the message but she said she hasn't logged any. So I guess I might be tackling this wrong. Either this is a dead end just to distract or point us in a wrong direction or that I'm, just doing it wrong.

[duke9509]

"Bills, Maths and Pub?" What are you talking about. I've obviously missed something.

[zeighy]

I was just reading through the stuff I missed and talked about it with Captain Obvious (my friend) he points out something regarding the "bills, maths, and pub"

he says, maybe they are actually cue words and does not actually pertain to an actual bill, math, or pub. he says if someone would have been talking about something in secrecy, they wouldn't make it so obvious. Which, I agree. Might be something "right in front of us" and we're missing it completely.

anyhow, I haven't had much time to do anything, yet. I'll see what I can uncover.

[duke9509]

Do you think that update satisfies the third optional objective?
Should I mark it as complete and comment that all other teams have their data, and that only Team Alpha is being slowed down?

Also, something that occurred to me while writing the above:
If only Team Epsilon is affected by the issue within AMSR, and another team in another department is also being affected, then there must be some sort of connection between the two. If this was something more broad, then we'd be dealing with wider spread problems. I'll ask Inno which department and team, specifically, is being affected on his end, and if they have anything in common with our Alpha.

EDIT: Well, seems LAINSY isn't talking:

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LAINSY: Due to corporate agreement, I cannot provide details on who the partners are including who the sender and receipient of the message is. Actually, the message only discusses the possibility of such application and does not go into extent of how.

I'm following up on another lead.

Also, Inno reports that the other team is Team Gamma of RHEA or Research on Human Evolutionary Advancement. Querying LAINSY for more info.

[posse]

Okay, I think we're getting somewhere. Netspec (netspecSPLATtechnologist.com) sent me an email:

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Heey! It's been a while. Been quite busy myself. So how have you been? Seems you're busy yourself as well. Ghost networks? You mean like a parallel network that runs along side the real network so that they can snoop off some data? Heh, you're talking to the right person. What do you need to know? Now, if the PDA is a regular PDA, we should already have the tools for it. But if it's something new, we might take a while to reverse engineer it. Whos is it? Your's? I guess I wouldn't mind if it was your's. P.S. One agent of ours has been monitoring a situation at FAILTECH. Seems another company has been snooping around as well. Now that I mentioned, are your question related to FAILTECH?

I went ahead and filled her in on what's been going on. Hopefully she'll help out, it sounds like she knows more about this ghost network stuff and could give us a hand.

EDIT: Also Daisuke Nakamura (AMSR Dept Head) sent me an update:

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Hello! I have completed the assessment of my department and it seems only Team Epsilon is experiencing the troubles. I have carefully inspected several aspects personally and didn't find much. I do however note that Team Alpha seems to slowed down on their project, which was a symptom of the up coming trouble in Team Epsilon. I have put in certain preventive measures to make sure no data loss will occur.

[duke9509]

Turns out Tuncarma was never licensed out. However, LAINSY picked up a high-profile message discussing how LMAO could be used for camouflage. I'm asking for more info.

[posse]

duke9509 wrote:

I asked Ryan Bruno about the post-January data being missing, as well, and this was his reply: Quote: Hmmm.... Well, I just checked your recent queries with LAINSY and as far as to what she can tell, she doesn't know what happened. However, with regards to your suspicion, it seems there might be something running ON Lainsy which she can't detect. It might be something that allows her to still think everything is going fine even though the data isn't really there. She should be able to notice that there hasn't been any activity on the Team's directory for a long time thus alerting everyone on the Team and the department. However, that wasn't the case. While she was aware that the files were transffered, she didn't know that the files were stolen. AI is so complicated. Maybe because the directory is empty, and she was aware that the files were transffered elsewhere she didn't have to alert anyone. But how did it seems like the files were there to the Team even though it wasn't actually there? I'll check if anything suspicious is running on LAINSY right now. If there is, we might be able to trace it back.

I also asked LAINSY if it could come up with a theory on how the files were stolen. LAINSY suggests the idea of a "ghost network":

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LAINSY: Unknown. If the transfer was done on January 17 and the files was then last seen on March 25, then there might have been an ghost network established to store the files as they were worked on until March 25 of which the ghost network is shutdown. It is the best possible solution I could devise.

Unfortunately, I asked LAINSY if it could detect a ghost network, and it said it couldn't.

As for the Team Epsilon files, I think I've hit a wall in investigating. In the meantime, I'm focusing on Althea and the PDA she found when looking in James Barron's desk/work area. Althea can't seem to access it and she's afraid that if she sends it to another FAILTECH team to try to reverse-engineer it, she might tip off whoever's behind this. There are 2 people I can think of that could help out -- one being Ryan Bruno (though if someone is monitoring FAILTECH communications, they could notice and be tipped off) and the other being Netspec/Patrice Heinz. So I went ahead and suggested Netspec, I mean why not? Could use some more characters to work with without having to do the "pretend I'm a volunteer" thing. Althea is willing to meet with her in a private location. I've sent an email to netspecSPLATtechnologist.com and am waiting to hear back. I also asked her if she had any experience with ghost networks. I'll let you guys know if I come up with anything.

[duke9509]

Forgot to mention this in my last post: I instructed LAINSY to a) notify Inno and all External Agents, b) collect as much info as possible about the session and its user(s), and c) alert security, in the event that same external drive is detected at any location. Only one of us (or Inno) may disable this alarm.

I also told her to tell this to Inno (and, through him, Althea) so they don't trip it on accident should we find the drive.

EDIT: Already got a reply to my filter. Not the results I was expecting at all. I'll attempt to figure out the significance of the CO2 note and if Althea's badge could have been stolen or cloned.

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RESPONSE: I have filtered and attampted to match additional data parameters you requested and had ZERO results. It seems no matching data could be found given the provided filters. I have automatically extended the filter paramters to 24 hours from 10 minutes and still found ZERO results. The account of Joseph Dillinger, James Barron, or Althea Rosso has not been recorded to use the same terminal consecutively since January 16 2012 up until March 27 2012. I have checked logged data regarding the transfer and the requested data is as follows: During the transfer Althea Rosso was physically present on the said terminal. Joseph Dillinger was tracked 231 meters away. James Barron was tracked 196 meters away. A system note matching the room and time parameters from Environment Control has been found in the duration of the transfer. Note as follows: High levels of Carbon Dioxide being produced within the room. Attempts to balance air levels failed. No system problems detected. Number of detected people in the room: 1.

EDIT2: I sent LAINSY a follow-up query and also told Inno not to tell Althea about the alarm for now, in case she really is in on it.

EDIT3: Well, no one stole her ID or cloned it, and the CO2 irregularity was only consistent with the presence of additional people in the room. My next thought would be some sort of teleportation and/or cloak used in conjunction with mind control and/or memory erasing. I will query on these technologies and on how many people's worth of CO2 was present.

Also, Inno says that another department is experiencing a similar problem with data loss. I'll ask for more specifics.

EDIT4: LAINSY says there would have been FIVE people in the room. Ugh. Looks like we're completely off here... I'm still waiting for a reply back on the tech search.

According to Inno, the data has been missing, just like our situation, just no one is missing so there were no suspicions. You know, here's a thought that just occurred to me: if all the data was stolen in January, what happened to the data entered since then? Where did they disappear to?

EDIT5: Well, LAINSY rules out teleportation, memory erasing and mind control. There was however, a branch of the Tuncarma Project that had to do with invisibility. While FAILTECH got nowhere with it, I remember that project already being licensed to someone. Perhaps that group was more successful. I asked who it was and also ran another search on holographic disguise (and the like).

So far, Inno says they have no leads on the new incident, but they expect it is connected.

I asked Ryan Bruno about the post-January data being missing, as well, and this was his reply:

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Hmmm.... Well, I just checked your recent queries with LAINSY and as far as to what she can tell, she doesn't know what happened. However, with regards to your suspicion, it seems there might be something running ON Lainsy which she can't detect. It might be something that allows her to still think everything is going fine even though the data isn't really there. She should be able to notice that there hasn't been any activity on the Team's directory for a long time thus alerting everyone on the Team and the department. However, that wasn't the case. While she was aware that the files were transffered, she didn't know that the files were stolen. AI is so complicated. Maybe because the directory is empty, and she was aware that the files were transffered elsewhere she didn't have to alert anyone. But how did it seems like the files were there to the Team even though it wasn't actually there? I'll check if anything suspicious is running on LAINSY right now. If there is, we might be able to trace it back.

[posse]

By the way, LAINSY got updated today. From lainsy.net:

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29/03/2012-12:24:14GMT 000007A015 : NEW SCARLET MODULE INSTALLED

From lainsy.net/scarlet:

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--------------------- O N L I N E --------------------- ** New module installed. System wide update initiated! ** AI routing information updated!

From lainsy.net/ruby:

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RESPONSE: Welcome back Scarlet! I see you've been updated. Systems will update to reflect new changes.

From lainsy.net/martin:

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Scarlet detected. Protocols update initiated.

From lainsy.net/arnold:

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29/03/2012-12:28:11GMT : SCARLET MODULE DETECTED! ** NEW SCARLET AI DETECTED! SYSTEMS UPDATE INITIATED!

[duke9509]

Ok, this is what I sent to LAINSY. Hopefully it'll be helpful in getting some of these events and facts straight:

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No, do not display the entire list. Instead, limit to file transfers (and include activity by James Barron within the same time frame and filter). In addition, please list any instances within this period where the account of Joseph Dillinger OR James Barron was logged out and then, within 10 minutes, the account of Althea Rosso was logged in afterwards on the same terminal. make sure to somehow make it apparent if an entry in this list coincides with one on the list requested below. Also, please provide a list of all sessions of Althea Rosso's account, whether simultaneous or consecutive, on the date of January 16th, and include their physical locations and the proximity of Joseph Dillinger and James Barron to each of them at the time. Within this list, please highlight (make bold or something) the information pertaining to the particular session from which the transfer of all the AMSR files to //ALBERTA/TERMINAL441/DEVICES/ESD_S was made.

[posse]

Okay I got the message (btw that was the coincidence of the century hahaha!!).

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Gronsfeld of CHECK number and for the alphabet key do reverse alphabet. Easy peasy!

Message reads:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

failtechisacompanytobeproudof youcanseethefutureandthefuturelooksbackatyou theresalotofthingstodoalotofthingstolearn imsurefailtechissomuchbiggerthanwhatwesee wejusthavetolearnhowtobeblind goingbacktoinnocenceandlearning themostfundamentalskillthatwillleadus towhereweneedtoget learnhowtowalklearnhowtoremember

[Lystella]

Frequencies check out, so I'd agree you're on the right track, posse. Have you tried key-less shifts or different keys?