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baliset
Boot
Joined: 07 Feb 2014 Posts: 53
I'm in! MSWashington3!
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 2:49 am
medras
Boot
Joined: 07 May 2012 Posts: 57
I just got signed up, too! VVLosAngeles3 is my username and I'm on the Research team (wanted to try and spread out the roles a bit). I also hope that real location isn't too important because I'm a faaar way away from LA.
I also did a small amount of googling and the only other thing that involves TalkieTalk is the 10 Clover Field Lane site (funandprettythings). However it seems kind of weird to me that they'd keep the default squarspace favicon if this was a big JJ Abrams thing... but who knows!
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 5:10 pm
KidBitter
Greenhorn
Joined: 10 Jan 2012 Posts: 9
New Stuff New verified post on the forum with a link to a dropbox.
http://etra.boards.net/post/288
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/klvujn3eeo0i4zj/AACokT8gf1se4F4gv3b1g7dZa?dl=0
Quote:
HOLY CRAP. JUST. GUYS, I'VE GOT PLENTY TO TELL Y'ALL. YOU ALL KNOW THAT I FOUND ALL THAT WEIRD STUFF LAST WEEK - WELL, WE WENT BACK TODAY JUST LIKE I THOUGHT WE MIGHT. I ACTUALLY JUST GOT BACK TO CAMP A FEW MINUTES AGO, BUT I WANTED TO FILL YOU ALL IN ASAP.
TONIGHT, BEFORE WE LEFT, MY SUPER ASKED ME TELL HIM WHERE I HAD FOUND THAT EMPLOYEE TERMINAL. WITH THE WAY HE HAD BEEN ACTING, I GAVE HIM A PRETTY ROUNDABOUT WAY OF FIGURING OUT WHICH WORKSTATION IT WAS SO I'D HAVE A CHANCE TO GET THERE BEFORE HIM. OUR PRIMARY GOAL WAS TO SEARCH THE LOWER FLOORS AGAIN. THANKFULLY, MOST OF THE AREA WAS COVERED LAST WEEK, SO IT WASN'T TOO BAD. I SNUCK BACK UPSTAIRS TO TRY TO SEE IF I COULD FIND ANYTHING ELSE ON THE COMPUTER. LAST TIME, I ONLY GRABBED THE UNLOCKED FILES SINCE I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE ON OUR TEAM WOULD WANT TO SPEND THE TIME CRACKING THE LOCKED FILES (OR THAT THEY'D BE SO SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THEIR CONTENT.) BUT THIS TIME, I GRABBED EVERYTHING.
NEXT WAS THAT DAMN CABINET - I COULDN'T GET INTO IT. I TRIED ALL Y'ALLS SUGGESTIONS, BUT NONE OF THEM WORKED. I ALSO TRIED TO PRY IT OPEN BUT WITH NO LUCK - IT WAS SEALED UP TIGHT. ANYWAY - RIGHT AROUND THEN, I HEARD SHUFFLING SO I HAD TO GO HIDE AROUND THE CORNER SO I WOULDN'T GET CAUGHT. LORD KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF SOMEONE CAUGHT ME. THE SHUFFLING I HEARD WAS MY SUPER. HE FOUND THE WORK STATION, BOOTED IT UP HIMSELF, SEEMED TO TAKE WHATEVER HE COULD OFF THE DESKTOP, THEN SMASHED EVERY BIT AND STRAIGHT UP TOOK THE FILE CABINET - WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT? ANYWAY. SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY UP… HE DIDN'T WANT ANYONE COMING BACK TO THAT STATION.
NOW. THE FILES. I'M A BIT RUSTY, BUT I TOOK MY CHANCES AT TRYING TO BRUTE FORCE OPEN THESE LOCKED FILES. WORST CASE IS THAT I WOULDN'T GET IN, RIGHT? WELL, I MANAGED TO GET ONE AT LEAST. IT WAS A FOLDER WITH WAY MORE INFO THAN I'VE HAD TIME TO SIFT THROUGH SO FAR. I'LL UPLOAD IT SHORTLY WITH THE REST. SO MANY AUDIO FILES, MOST OF WHICH APPEARS TO BE STUFF CONCERNING SOVIET SATELLITES. PRETTY OLD, SEEMS TO ME AND A LOT OF LINKS TO SOME OLD SITES. BUT - THERE'S STILL THIS ONE FILE THAT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT. I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO LOOK THROUGH IT REALLY, BUT I THOUGHT I'D UPLOAD ALL THE FILES HERE AND LET Y'ALL TAKE A LOOK AT THEM. MAYBE SOME OF YOU GOT MORE TIME ON YOUR HANDS THAN I DO. THE FILES WITH THE MESSAGES I MENTIONED LAST TIME GOT CORRUPTED WHEN I YANKED THEM OFF THE COMPUTER. (EJECT FIRST AND ALL THAT SHIT - NEVER HAD IT CORRUPT ON ME BEFORE BUT OF COURSE THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME)
I FIGURED I'D KEEP Y'ALL IN THE LOOP. I SURE AS HELL HOPE MY SUPERVISOR DOESN'T FIND OUT WHAT I DID - BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S ON THESE FORUMS. ANYHOW, FOR NOW HERE'S EVERYTHING I FOUND - I'LL CHECK BACK WITH Y'ALL SOON. I KNOW I KEEP SAYING THIS, BUT I TRULY MEAN IT. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES OUT THERE. UNTIL NEXT TIME.
MATTY
Some of the stuff is encoded, but I can't do anything with it. I'm bad at this stuff. I should have stayed a lurker.
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:46 pm
ThatDutchGuy15
Boot
Joined: 21 Jun 2016 Posts: 10
Just applied.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:14 am
themightymooker
Veteran
Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Posts: 109 Location: Not Quite Lincoln, NE
I'm in as well! I'm MCDetroit3. Woo-hoo for the research crew!
EDIT: Sorry for the bump, but I have to ask, Kidbitter, how did you determine the message was encoded? In what way? I only ask because I'm pretty new to this, too, but I explored a couple of typical avenues (first letters of words/sentences, repeated words/numbers, poking around in the code), but I came up empty.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:28 am
KidBitter
Greenhorn
Joined: 10 Jan 2012 Posts: 9
themightymooker wrote:
I'm in as well! I'm MCDetroit3. Woo-hoo for the research crew!
EDIT: Sorry for the bump, but I have to ask, Kidbitter, how did you determine the message was encoded? In what way? I only ask because I'm pretty new to this, too, but I explored a couple of typical avenues (first letters of words/sentences, repeated words/numbers, poking around in the code), but I came up empty.
Dude, I'm terrible at this stuff. I saw it in the ETRA discord and decided to pass it along in hopes some talented codebreaker here could figure it out. You guys made sense of EverymanHYBRID. You can figure anything out.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 12:52 am
slusho!666
Boot
Joined: 15 Jan 2016 Posts: 36 Location: Chuai Station
I decided to check the forums on a whim because unemployment is kicking my ass and OH LOOK AT THIS MAYBE THERE'S A NEW THING HAPPENING
Signed up for an ETRA login for LA (though I'm technically in Canada) and hopeful this is still moving forward.
Let's do it!
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 6:47 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Atlanta Dead Drop I was contacted by ETRA since I'd forgotten to keep tabs on the forum and apparently something was lost near Atlanta. I'll go tomorrow and see what I can find and report back.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:56 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
It looks like I was beaten to the drop. I'm going to return tomorrow with a metal detector just in case but it may be time for a plan B unless someone else announces they retrieved it.
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:06 pm
jhawk18
Boot
Joined: 05 Jul 2016 Posts: 24
Where are my Houston frontliners at? Just got my email, I'm JS2HOUSTON4.
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:15 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
I returned to the spot again this morning and had more time to look around. Finally found a USB drive with a password protected .zip file that contains a .WAV file. We are trying to figure out the password and I'll post it once we get the audio file.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 5:23 pm
the_velociraptor
Decorated
Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 237 Location: A pen in Isla Sorna
Probably adding white noise, but: the Molotov in the posters that Perko posted appears to be a reference to the Scotch molotov from 10 Cloverfield Lane, and the text on it... anyone know Japanese?
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:03 am
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
If I remember correctly the Japanese spells out "fan made" or something to that effect. It's been very well done though.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 9:09 am
hinoai
Decorated
Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 284 Location: Citizen of the World (currently Honolulu, Hawaii).
Yeah, it does say "fan made." I'm really late to the party, sorry! RL has been kicking my butt. I had no idea there had been anything going on at E3! Too bad!! I mean, not that I went or anything.
Does anyone have screencaptures or anything? Most of the Imgur stuff here is already gone. So, is this whole thing really a fan effort? Not that I mind, but I'd like to know anyways. Is this info coming off of the subr? I hate to have to delve back into there to get anywhere.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 2:39 am
StarryEyes
Kilroy
Joined: 14 Jul 2016 Posts: 1
Quote:
July 13, 2016: Last night there were several reports of large squadrons of airborne hostiles in the Washington, DC area. Stay alert.
Waiting on my login info now. Might not be able to participate much irl because New Orleans is 3 hours away, but how can I say no to ARG and aliens?
Has anyone been in contact with the gmail besides login? We have the forums but usually emails are important for ARGs.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:01 pm
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