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[tipsila]

Re: Things getting dangerous?

[Scribe]

E-mail from Eric, in response to me:

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It appears they have some sympathy after all. The break has arrived. On 6/25/07, Scribe <janus> wrote: > Sounds like you could do with a break... Thanks for the advice, I'll be > careful.

Has Eric been replaced by one of the AAs? Or.. by one of us? *gulp*

[DelVillan.]

HighFive and 6op1libra.com have both gone down for me. Changes, soon, maybe?

[Scribe]

Things getting dangerous?

[godson2k7]

connected, not connected, connected?

[DelVillan.]

Been doing some more off-color research that may or may not help in the future, but it can't hurt. Here's what I've turned up.
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About Eric:
Eric [David?] Hachlinski is definitely a real person. He seems to have lived around the Detroit area/ Michigan in general for a while. He was born in 1974, probably sometime in June.

There is a Carol Hachlinski, which seems to be his mother, aged 64, and I think a younger sister named Erin. While I have their address and number, I won't post it here because it's unneeded. His mother's, however, is listed as one of his residences.

There's a handful of possible addresses that this search turned up. The phone and addresses aren't needed; we've already been in contact with Eric. It's just a verification that he lives in Michigan, relatively near Detroit, which seems to be an important location.
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The counter in the source:
We've noted that there is an awkward counter which possibly adds eleven. It does, in fact. 6op1libra.com, highfivegame.com, and midnightcreative.com (cached version) all share this. It uses "statsmachine" which creates a variable and keeps track of the count internally, and when the person using that in their page enters "mycount" into the HTML, it retrieves that data for them.

However, it does this for each hit. Which means each of our hits counts as a lot more to the site.

Here's why and how:
mycount = mycount + 11;
document.write(mycount)
The page gets the number from "src="http://www.statsmachine.com/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?694|69481" and then basically says, "Okay, add eleven to yourself to display on my page. Then, take that number and overwrite it to the statsmachine variable." This means that when "mycount" is grabbed again on the next reload, it has the "false" number written as the "real" number, sort of. Here's a quick illustration.

First visit:
Real hits: 1
Mycount now = 1
[Source code tells it to add 11]
Shown hits on the page: 12
[Cource code tells it to rewrite what was previously "1" as "1+11," or "12"]
Mycount now = 12.
Second visit:
Mycount now =12
[Source code tells it to add 11]
Shown hits on the page: 23
[Cource code tells it to rewrite what was previously "12" as "12+11," or "23"]
Mycount now = 23.

This continues for really high counts.
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Similarly, it seems the code for the cached midnightcreative.com was used to make the other two sites, but wasn't edited well. Which explains why when you look at the source, there's a bunch of excess brackets and tags.
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I called the First Street Deck. Fliers are apparently pretty common there. Most of them are for events that are downtown, and he hasn't heard of the 6op 1 Libra or anything like it.

[Mason]

Eric Hachlinski e-mailed me:

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Hello Friend. AA1, AA2 and AA3 have been taken care of. I am worried they let too much information out they shouldn't have stolen. Everything I have is cryptic - I just received an e-mail that they have recovered the final information the AA's had taken from them. Then I found this message on my car windshield at lunch: ---------------------------------------------- Reedus discovered the keys that allowed us to almost be revealed. Tipsila has uncovered the coded message which could compromise us if ever unlocked. Bellymonster has sent the form. Too late though. They should be watched - and given more knowledge. ---------------------------------------------- WTF? I hope these people didn't have access to the files prior to the "disappearance" of the agents. But it's fair to say now they got involved in a game they couldn't possibly comprehend... and they paid for it... and they will ever be heard from again. They almost figured out the code - but were sloppy. Oh well. Don't get sloppy.

[Scribe]

Hmm, phew. After having a chat with Eric, I confirmed the "Nick" as the Nick from www.heavenlymedia.co.uk (a legitimate company, I'm pretty sure - I have their business card in my wallet... o_O ) and who went to Informatics and worked at Magpie, and have chatted to him a little. He doesn't seem to know what it's all about, although I get the impression that may not be the complete story.

Still, he's suggested I get in touch with another eg-Magipe-employee - although declined to give any particular reason. Curiouser and curiouser. I've mailed a mutual friend of theirs in order to get contact details, so will hopefully hear back soon on that.

At the moment, chatting seems to be the most useful thing I can do The 2 sites for this, and the claim form stuff for NN have got me utterly lost.

[eta] just had a quick chat with Eric:

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Scribe 14:17 hi eric Eric Hachlinski 15:09 hello Scribe 15:10 hi there. nice weekend? Eric Hachlinski 15:11 It was.... busy. Scribe 15:11 did you catch your flight? Eric Hachlinski 15:11 No - I got to gate 3 and there was an incident... it has happened before. Scribe 15:12 oh... what happened? Eric Hachlinski 15:14 They had some security issues which happens at gate three now and then. So I was told to leave. Scribe 15:14 How unusual. Was it personal? Or a generic problem with gate 3? 3:17 Eric Hachlinski disconnected

[Scribe]

Ailis is Morgan Webb's middle name.

How she comes into all of this is anyone's guess. I'm getting a little anxious about speculating here though, as it seems some of the stuff we dig up then gets used over at 6op1libra or highfivegame,confusing things more

[tipsila]

This is fun.. click a constellation name, then click the Interactive star chart (Java applet) link.

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I'd kill for an online tool that lets you load a graphic of a constellation and have it find out which one it is. Thenew homepage graphic looks more like sagitarius than libra, to me, but I am really bad at seeing them. Anyone else see a better match?

[tipsila]

godson2k7 wrote:

ailis is showing up in the meta on highfivegame.com Don't remember if it was there before. just another form of Alice or something more?

Ailis is the Irish form of ALICE, which is the short form of the Old French Adelais, itself a short form of Adalheidis (ADELAIDE).

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From the Germanic name Adalheidis which was composed of the elements adal "noble" and heid "kind, sort, type". This was the name of the wife of Otto the Great, and also the wife of King William IV of Britain. A city in Australia bears this name.

[Reedus]

err...I've been more focused on the nomennescio side of things, but "sevenynine" seems to have some connection to eric mentioning the misspelling of "seventynine". if you combine that also with the "y = spanish" comment, you get "seven y nine" or "seven and nine".

[godson2k7]

ailis is showing up in the meta on highfivegame.com

Don't remember if it was there before.

just another form of Alice or something more?