[bambusar]

We didnt solve HORN sounds yet.

Meanwhile

09:00 GMT 709 700 0122 starts to transmit busy signal.
actually it is speed up busy signal, twice as fast as a regular busy tone

http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-13%2009-18%20UTC%20-%20709-700-0122%20-%200.wav


Also here is gif animation showing events sorrounding lost og MELTER3 ship on 12th of September.




http://imgur.com/a/so7m8#0

[bambusar]

No big news, no new coordinates yet, but few slight changes on phonenumbers showing us that PM didnt forget about us.



12 October 2012‎ 01:50 GMT
202 numbear played different iridium message, male voice and hawaii wahiawa gateway one
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-12%2001-48%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav




13.10.2012 01:30 GMT "Long horn" on 303 number sound changed again.
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-13%2001-15%20UTC%20-%20303-309-0004%20-%200.wav

[bambusar]

Still waiting for details about next drops
We dont know when to expect new transmissions since data format used in messages isnt clear.

COMPONENT TO DROP BY 152000Z OCT 12 - 15th Oct. 20:00 2012 ?
RETRIEVE NO LATER THAN 312359 OCT 12 - 31th Oct. 23:59 2012 ?

More info on date format confusion:
http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste/index.php?31f5b8c48212275b#31S90IuAhkRQtllKuzAfw+wavBFCA+g6HridPXbFPME=

Data song is still the same
http://bagud.dk/arg/709watch.php

We discovered that if you call 202 number with spoofed ID from valid iridium number you get noisy recording of iridium message:
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-10%2004-11%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav

No patterns were found in noise so far
We dont know why and how noise can noise be only on recordings made with spoofed ID

normal recording:
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-10%2004-09%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav

HORN sound still note decrypted; more info:
http://otp22.com/index.php?title=303-309-0004_tone_analysis_page

[bambusar]

Deal London, noted. I post all news pretty much as soon as main IRC group gets it.

Here you can check where people prepared to pick up the drops are, we have few guys in England already.

http://otp22.com/index.php?title=Dead_drop_agents


More links about Iridium network.
There is no way to check if 202 call is coming from iridium network or it is just recorded message.

http://www.iridium.com/default.aspx

Iridium has 66 satellites, covering whole world, even both poles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation

Iridium is also used by US Antarctic program
http://www.usap.gov/
http://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/technology/documents/Systems%20Architecture%20Description.pdf

One guy was claiming that when he called 202 number first time he got different Iridium network message, but we dont have any recording of that call.

Code:

[23:12]   asdgfsadg   the message says "welcome to the iridium satellite global network in [b]wahiawa[/b]" over and over with male voice [23:15]   asdgfsadg   now i only get Tempe [23:16]   asdgfsadg   i got wahiawa before [23:33]   asdgfsadg   so, i called and got a message saying "wahiawa gateway" with male announcer instead of the female one announcing the iridium tempe one.. but the wahiawa location is for the iridium satellite phone gateway for DoD so we recommend that you stay away So other gateway-Wahiawa, Hawaii

We are getting Tempe, Arizona gateway.
"The commercial gateway in Tempe, Arizona, provides voice, data, and paging services for commercial customers on a global basis. Typical customers include maritime, aviation, government, the petroleum industry, scientists, and frequent world travelers."
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-09%2013-25%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav

Web page that nfx made to detect if there will be any chage in "Icecram truck horn" or "Data song"
Data song update detection system http://bagud.dk/arg

[Crescent]

in london

[bambusar]

We just discovered that 202 phonenumber

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=964865#964865



does not transmitt "short horn" sound anymore

CAUTION HEADPHONE USERS!
http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-08%2001-58%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav

but new strange message about Iridium global network.

http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-10-08%2019-13%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%200.wav


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications

Code:

The Iridium network is unique in that it covers the whole Earth, including poles, oceans and airways. The company derives its name from the chemical element iridium. The number of satellites projected in the early stages of planning was 77, the atomic number of iridium, evoking the metaphor of 77 electrons orbiting the nucleus.

[bambusar]

You are not to late. Just read through the thread and you will know pretty much everything. Join us on IRC if you have any ideas or questions.

No news in last days. Progress is always slow during weekends.

Currently we are waiting on coordinates for new drops.

http://otp22.com/index.php?title=NAMED_REGIONS
http://otp22.com/index.php?title=Dead_drop_agents#Available_for_future_locations




and


Still working on "Long horn" sound.
http://otp22.com/index.php?title=303-309-0004_tone_analysis_page






And you can read SuperDan's trip report on finding the third number on third dead drop location in Black Oak Lake cemetery
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509156&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=10#post408257531

[Nicholas Van Orton]

Wish I would've got in on this earlier, this looks too close to the real thing. You guys are making serious progress

[bambusar]

We discovered what was strange language on recording from 19/9/2012.


Full transcription
http://otp22.referata.com/wiki/Message:09/19/2012/1337/17:59

Just language recording:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0hlMIJz87yR

It is Eskimo language Inoktitut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut

Language is Inuktitut Eskimo–Aleut language

Meaning:
If you want a call back, leave your name. If you would like assistance, please hang up. ?!?!?


Found by facebook friend of somethingawful user.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509156&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=9#post408242635

Code:

Inuk Memes : it's just a standard recording, saying "if you want a call back, leave your name. if you would like assistance, please hang up". that doesn't really make sense, and all of the numbers being spouted for 13 minutes is kind of creepy. what is this? SA: It's part of an alternate reality game. otp22.com Inuk Memes : strange, but yes.. it's Inuktitut (language)

[bambusar]

As was suggested in previous transmission

...THIS MESSAGE WILL BE UPDATED/ /

We noticed that "binary song" has changed.

http://i.imgur.com/dYeb7.jpg

New message is slightly changed, we dont know yet what is happening with COMPONENT DROPS, what is meaning behind terms: recovery, collection, drop and retrieval. Is this meant to be picked up by us or is it for other agents, those who have agent codes for phonecalls. WE guessed most of the working codes.
Actually story is still very foggy.
We still dont know if this transmissions and drops are supposed to be picked up by us or are we intercepting comms from somebody who doesnt know about us.

PREPARE FOR COMPONENT RECOVERY
...
LOC/HK/COLLECTED//
...
COMPONENT TO DROP BY 152000Z OCT 12 - 15th Oct. 20:00 2012
RETRIEVE NO LATER THAN 312359 OCT 12 - 31th Oct. 23:59 2012


Transmission from 709 700 0122 ver. 2

Code:

P 050015Z OCT 12    SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5    MSGID/DRPWRN//    REPL/080524Z SEP 24/PREPARE FOR COMPONENT(S) RECOVERY//    SUBJ/PREPARE FOR COMPONENT RECOVERY(S)//    LOC/FI11///    LOC/HK/COLLECTED//    LOC/JA14///    LOC/US06075///    LOC/US15///    LOC/US17031///    LOC/US44///    GENTEXT/REMARKS/PREPARE TO RETRIEVE COMPONENT DROPS IN   NAJED REGIONS    COMPONENT TO DROP BY 152000Z OCT 12    RETRIEVE NO LATER THAN 312359 OCT 12    THIS MESSAGE WILL BE UPDATED//

[bambusar]

Previously posted message announcing more drops in furure:

Code:

Z 080524Z SEP 24 SECRET/ / PRJMLPL/ / 75X5 MSGID / DRPWRN / / SUBJ/ PREPARE FOR COMPONENT? ? RECOVERY/ / LOC/ FI11/ / / LOC/ HK/ / / LOC/ JA14/ ? ? ? LOC/ US06075/ / / LOC/ US15/ / / LOC/ US17031/ / / GENTEXT/ REMARKS/ PREPARE TO RETRIEVE COMPONENT DROPS IN NAMED REGIONS NO LATER THAN 152000Z OCT 05 THIS MESSAGE WILL BE UPDATED/ /

Locations Explanation

FI11 : FI11_399_401_province_laani___Uusimaa__

HK : HK00_399_414_country____HONG KONG__

JA14 : JA14_400_414_prefecture____Ibaraki__

US06075 : San Francisco County, California

US15 : US15_400_414_state____Hawaii__

US17031 : Cook County, Illinois

US44 : RHODE ISLAND (from trans v2)

http://efele.net/maps/fips-10/data/fips-all.txt
http://www.census.gov/popest/data/counties/totals/1990s/files/90s-fips.txt




All received drop messages so far:

http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste/index.php?31f5b8c48212275b#31S90IuAhkRQtllKuzAfw+wavBFCA+g6HridPXbFPME=

All received NATO messages so far:

http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste/index.php?1ef04e532d74a6d9#X8we/6OV3LRDr7i66tDrsOLPb64RvlPqQnpEj1SKae4=

[bambusar]

Short history of "OTP 22"



We found similar very similar phone numbers game "project Evil or DEFCON Mein Fraulein crypto challenge." from Defcon 2006. No connection with current game was confirmed.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080930194627/http://projectevil.org/?p=16


First mention of our phone numbers:

11/12/2011
The first known instance of the (303) 309-0004 number is recorded in a GodLikeProductions forum post.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1702191/pg1

01/13/2012
Captain_Jack (aka wprtradio on YouTube) on the GodLikeProductions forum posts a YouTube video to the initial GLP post.



Later Colorado or Denver phone number mystery was posted many times on /x/. Only few people were following it


09/10/2012

More people joined together and OTP 22 name was born. This was beginning of current group, which made a lot of progress.

Initial threads were posted to /b/ and /x/.

The original OTP22 pastebin and youtube video was authored by OTP-Decoder


Original thread.
http://markcoenterprises.net/files/OTP22/thread_archives/x_thread_10921476/a.htm


Later we had many /x/ threads on 4chan like this:
http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?c2d8cc521ba5a1fb#JDZ8ERSUz2QymPjqMvTPUiomW4OYSjw7Ab/syBslD1Q=


First Databump players were using
Original Pastebin
http://pastebin.com/bDvJA2Xu
Pastebin no.2
http://pastebin.com/tP9ym0af
OTP.Decoder video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvXK29c20Ns


Currently (Feb, 2013) We are publishing discoveries in
OTP22 Wikipedia
http://otp22.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
Something Awful
http://bit.ly/XqORGt Google cache page
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509156&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2 Viewable for members only
Occasional posts on GodLikeProductions:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1702191/pg8
Occasional thread on 4chan /x/
This thread



Currently we are on IRC freenode channel #arg or
Join us there! We have aprox. 50 people online currently.

Main wiki
Transcriptions and maps wiki
http://otp22.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
Autodialer
http://dialer.otp22.com/?C=N;O=D


http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#arg

SA thread:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509156&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

[emato]

Just wanted to say thanks for posting all of this. I don't know how it all started or how or where you all work on it but it's impressive! Totally enjoy following it.

[bambusar]

Cryptogram was solved by Ymgve and Crash_Demons .

Results look like this

http://hpaste.org/75803

Code:

Replacements by Ymgve and Crash_Demons :D Number replacements aside from 7,5 probably are incorrect. .     data[524287677+i] ^ wavmsg[i] ^ 0x80 .          'i\xc0pxpurti\xc0bEW\xc0rt\xa5      Z    080524Z    SEP    24\n .      bECYEc\xe1\xe1WYQTSWS\xe1\xe1wugu\xa5      SECRET/   /   PRJMLPL/   /   75X5 \n .      TbGID\xe1DYWfYU\xe1\xe1\xa5      MSGID /  DRPWRN /  /   \n .      bdBP\xe1WYEWAYE\xc0FVY\xc0CVTWVUEUc\xcdb\xdd\xc0YECVeEYh\xe1\xe1\xa5      SUBJ/   PREPARE    FOR    COMPONENT?    ?       RECOVERY/   /   \n  .      SVC\xe1FIqq\xe1\xe1\xe1\xa5      LOC/   FI11/   /   /   \n .      SVC\xe1HR\xe1\xe1\xe1\xa5      LOC/   HK/   /   /   \n .      SVC\xe1QAqt\xe1\x86\x96\xd0      LOC/   JA14/   ?   ?   ? .      SVC\xe1dbpvpwu\xe1\xe1\xe1\xa5      LOC/   US06075/   /   /   \n .      SVC\xe1dbqu\xe1\xe1\xe1\xa5      LOC/   US15/   /   /   \n .      SVC\xe1dbqwpsq\xe1\xe1\xe1\xa5      LOC/   US17031/   /   /   \n .      GEUcEgc\xe1YETAYRb\xe1WYEWAYE\xc0cV\xc0YEcYIEeE\xc0CVTWVUEUc\xc0DYVWb\xc0IU\xc0UATED\xc0YEGIVUb\xa5      GENTEXT/   REMARKS/   PREPARE    TO    RETRIEVE    COMPONENT    DROPS    IN    NAMED    REGIONS\n .      UV\xc0SAcEY\xc0cHAU\xc0qwrpppi\xc0VCc\xc0pu\xa5      NO    LATER    THAN    152000Z    OCT    05\n .      cHIb\xc0TEbbAGE\xc0fISS\xc0BE\xc0dWDAcED\xe1\xe1'      THIS    MESSAGE    WILL    BE    UPDATED/   /

Looks like there will be many more drops

[bambusar]

We are minutes away from solving the strange tuned song from new number 709 700 0122

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NSo678eHLJ

Watching at spectorgams http://imgur.com/a/Um3Uk#8 we figured out that song is binary code:



Transcribing binary and converting to acsii we discovered that we got again similar header (this time with ending to) to 23 \n from previous puzzle.

Run binary http://pastebin.com/nMVqTuzG through http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/

}*}*!323 .... }*}*}*}

Code:

}*}*}*!323 _+ ó¿���û j9PkÜk#Éz·À<Nàabÿк<7>/xò�fñÔ� Ñ)O�Ä�Jº�å�D~�ªt¡Î�5ãyMSj<�RªêT¼ÒÃhw�f�:=ë3�¢eu�<�:�ÌùÅ£µ��ÂÃ�ñÐùìÓÇÑÐ9;åôÍÈ�éNB�;ß°/¼kA`æ<-:�a]é� ®¬òÅêjçhÐÃ�HÁz»Pa&S=A©Æ¼¿­öî�ìâcÍ�en�@ßÅ´±!O±§t-Ìdk�äøJ®ÁL¥�o¦3¿�°}Å}üu¯¬iÍ}2Û@�¬ÜdRHh   ù÷�þ��¶�}*}*}*}*

We joined forces together to get right transcription
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atxo2TxLJcfudGJ3dktIMWZFa1FlYUFpZHd3d3FRUXc#gid=0

Strip off leading and ending bytes

Then Ymgve did some "xor magic" http://pastebin.com/UPgdeZYG

Code:

Ymgve      wand an XOR constant Ymgve   data.bin xor wave xor const

and got this

http://pastebin.com/BN0rQUeS

This was compared to previous drop messages and we figured out that we have to solve it as cryptogram.