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Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
Two more emails in the video (from the letter at 03:47):
zachary.spencerSPLAT feaglobal.co.uk
john.atkinsonSPLAT feaglobal.co.uk
www.feaglobal.co.uk is apparently empty - "Your hosting package is now ready to use!" it proclaims.
I fired off an email to Zach.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:18 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
and a reply from Zach:
Zachary Spencer wrote:
ARK_OUTGOING_ Z2VuZXNpczk2
Hi Karl,
Thank God there's more than one of you that got my messages. I still can't believe it worked...
As I said to Russell, I can't talk much at the moment. The leaders noticed a spike in bandwidth on the ARK because of all the data I sent to the website.
I can't be caught doing this. They'll throw me overboard if I am.
Your email gave me so much hope. I can't promise I'll be in touch soon, but please don't give up on me.
We all need you.
Zach
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:00 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Nice! This still has my attention, also. FWIW: Z2VuZXNpczk2 from base64 is "genesis96" leading to http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/genesis96/
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:06 pm
Last edited by amandel on Sat May 03, 2014 5:07 pm; edited 1 time in total
Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
amandel wrote:
Nice! This still has my attention, also. FWIW: Z2VuZXNpczk2 from base64 is "genesis96".
which leads us to:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/genesis96/
I think there's supposed to be a countdown on that page, but as the javascript file uses the innertext() property to update it, it doesn't render on firefox. You could make the javascript cross-browser compatible by changing the line:
Code:
document.getElementById("counter").innerText = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
to
Code:
if(document.all){ {
document.getElementById("counter").innerText = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
}
else {
document.getElementById("counter").textContent = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
}
But that's a job for the PM
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:07 pm
natas
PHP Ninja
Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 3177 Location: Northwest Indiana
[OFF TOPIC] ramblings about code A better solution would be not to use "document.all" ever. It's only used for IE4, and if you use IE4, you need therapy.
document.getElementById("*****").textContent is the W3C standard. On a side note, #($% Microsoft.
ETA:
The countdown renders on firefox perfectly for me as is. I must have misread the above post, thinking that there was an issue rendering on IE. Weird. I know this question will sound condescending, but are you sure you're using FireFox?
EDIT 2:
The bigger concern might be that the HTML is tagged horribly. Most of the html is written outside of the HTML tags, and there is not opening "body" tag. There are two closing "font" tags, but no opening "font" tags. And that's just at first glance. /rambling
EDIT 3:
I guess they got tired of me rambling and changed it. lol.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:50 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Lol natas. New email from features global:
Quote:
Thank you for you email.
Following the biological terrorist attack on the UK, FEA Global Biotechnology is not currently operating a UK Office. Our Global Headquarters have subsequently been moved to France.
Our deepest sympathies go out to the families & friends across the world who have lost people in this callous attack.
If your enquiry is urgent, please contact our French Office at franceSPLAT feaglobal.co.uk
Thank you,
Aimee Gill
CEO, FEA Global Biotechnology
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:44 pm
julieaurora
Boot
Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 57
I got that same email reply. Sent a message to the new address too.
Edit: Got an automated response from franceSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk :
Thanks for you email.
As all emails are currently being directed through this office, we are currently experiencing a huge backlog of emails.
Please allow up to 28 days for a response.
Thanks for your patience.
FEA Global Biotechnology
So, dead-end that for now.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 7:23 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Update with a new email and along piece of code in the source.
Also some binary which decodes to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"NG" with the previous binary this gives us "Chang"
Auto email from declan.youngSPLAT feaglobal.co.uk:
Quote:
EMAIL ACCOUNT TERMINATED FOR
declan.youngSPLAT feaglobal.co.uk
REASON: Account Holder Deceased
Continued persistence of contact will be reported to the authorities.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 5:24 pm
julieaurora
Boot
Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 57
Where did you get the declan.youngSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk address? Don't remember seeing that one.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:44 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
It's at the bottom of the new image on genesis 96
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:02 pm
battlecat
Veteran
Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 132 Location: Kearney, MO
Reporting in for the first time in a LONG time...will definitely be keeping an eye on this.
It's good to be back.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:06 pm
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
Welcome back Battlecat!
A cursory glance at the long string in the source suggests that it's not base64, or at least it's not text encoded base64. Need to head to work so can't do any further analysis yet.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:37 am
julieaurora
Boot
Joined: 15 Dec 2013 Posts: 57
Weird Russel, that page didn't change for me till 7 hours after you posted up earlier. Any luck decoding the source code info? There were like four pages of code. Quickly tried converting it as base64, but no luck there. Will hopefully have time to try more tomorrow.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:49 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
One thing I have noticed about the data dump, is that there's a line break a little way in and then a fair amount of repetition in there. Tried converting to various image formats, but no joy there. Again, at work, so probably won't have much time to work on this till later.
ETA: the substring "61696d656567696c6c" appears in the code 10 times. I suspect there are a few more of these repeated substrings, but I don't know what their meaning is, or even if they have any significance.
OK scratch that, because:
EDIT2: OK, fired off the email, got the same terrorist attack autoreply, but there was a link at the bottom to Aimee Gill's linedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aimee-gill/96/737/260
I can only see the brief profile though as I don't have a LinkedIn account.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 2:47 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
THX for the latest image. The prompt for the next countdown page can be found there:
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 5:43 am
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