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[PUZZLE] The SILVIA Files
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skeptical
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sorry...looks like others have takin care of timelines

sorry for above long post...others have links with the same compilation that were way ahead of me...
cheers

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:07 am
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As we had seen in SR, in the begining, the machines served the men blindly. If it was generated by a single entity, it was undercontrol by a company, letīs say. The humankind was not attacked by the machines until 01 was bombed by atomic bombs.

And this begining of 21st century is a bit a head of us, letīs say 2040, at least.

We see in the Matrix World a certain level of fidelity to the real world of the 21st, so it canīt be that an AI was invented, and is hacking everywhere.

It more likely a rogue program that was captured somehow by Metacortechs , and is being studyied, in the higher levels of Labyrinth project. Of course, Metacortechs can have high profits by studying how it works, or even by providing the Matrix a higher security level.

It seems a very dangerous program, and some hackers are aware of this. I donīt know if all of them know about the matrix and even if that is a rogue program, but certainly they know it is something dangerous.

I see that some of the hackers are from outside the Matrix (they are rebels), working with Beth, knowing exactly the nature of that program, but not letting her know about the existence of the matrix.

She is a valueable spy inside the Metacortechs, because she thinks she is in the same level of knoledge about the others and at the same time protected by her status quo system and her ignorance, whereas in fact, she is being used by the other two because they donīt want to risk their lives getting inside Metacortechs.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:25 am
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Boot

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Question to all you fols :


Can each person in those hacker dialogs be indentified solely by its file extentions ?

One hacker is *.mp3, other is *.txt, and so on...

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:39 am
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skeptical
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good theory about file extensions

I just updated the "transcript" with each file name above each "post" and am going to check your idea out

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:09 am
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I checked the moon sky pic, with some pics behind.

That sky is equal or very similar to the one ( to the left side of that scene) where Neo was flying. I also checked some of the drawings that were spread. I could enhance just 3 of them. It would be welcome if any of you guys do any better or just try to enhance other drawings.

I donīt know what they mean, but they seem important.

EDIT. : I resized the pics to correct the perspective. They do look like tarot cards.
silviax.jpg
 Description   It seems an X, or a cross. There is a symbol above
 Filesize   17.66KB
 Viewed   289 Time(s)

silviax.jpg

silviax2.jpg
 Description   It seems an X, or a cross. There is a symbol above
 Filesize   18.98KB
 Viewed   252 Time(s)

silviax2.jpg

silviax3.jpg
 Description   Other drawing.
 Filesize   17.72KB
 Viewed   249 Time(s)

silviax3.jpg


PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 9:55 am
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Hypothetical File Extension Analysis For Silivia "Chat&

Time Order Extension File Type Character?
1, 14, bh.gif 2 image files
2, 7, kbp 2 text files (Character A)
3, 15 doc.gif 2 image files
4, gif 1 text file (Character B)
5, graffle.jpg 1 image file
6, 16, 22 jpg 3 text files (Character C)
8, 17 lhp 2 text files (Character D)
9, 18, 23 mic 3 text files (Character E)
10, 19 mp3 2 text files (Character F)
11, 20, 24 txt 3 text files (Character G)
12, wsg.jpg 1 image file
13, 21 ypt 2 text files (Character H)

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L'Maut
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Quote:
I checked the moon sky pic, with some pics behind ...

I donīt know what they mean, but they seem important.


It looks like a tarot deck. The superimposed sky may reference the Moon card, but I'm not certain what the significance of that may be. The layout of the cards resembles the Thoth Spread, which means the deck may be Crowley's Book of Thoth, or possibly the Egyptian Book of Doors.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:00 am
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I think it is very clear that Caesar works at Underscorehosting or at least in on contract to work with them. Read this message:

Quote:
I cleaned and wiped as much as I could (saving the node spike stuff for myself, of course), and then broke it even more. I had to; the oafs were stumbling all over the place, tripping alarms and making a huge mess. Way to be a ballerina, Gerry Fleck. Of course, _'s got some medium-level guys, and so I hung out until they could see my present to them. I pointed at the hole, tattled on bigfoot, and left a leetle wiggle room after I gave them the fixes. So that's why we're here now. 2.jpg


So, he saw the node spike, then cleaned it up, then when the medium-level guys from Underscore came in to work, he showed them the error, blamed it on "bigfoof" and left a backdoor so that the hackers could get a safe spot on the FTP site to talk.

You can also notice from the conversation that Scratch, one of the hackers, is a somewhat unhappy member of the team:

From Cesar:
Quote:
3.jpg:
Why the hostility? Are you mad I got here first? That it wasn't like last time, where you got fried and nearly got us all pinned to the wall? What's the deal?


From Scratch:
Quote:
3.mic.txt:
look, i'll play your game because i like the pipe this place is sitting on. but i'll skip the rallies and ticker tape. these pansy-ass passcodes have GOT to go. we're off the grid anyway - NO ONE WOULDA GOT FRIED. misrepresenting me is not cool, man. i bet that spike was just a bad thunderstorm in redland, i bet. smug ass!


So, there are a few interesting things to think about there. Why does Scratch want to play the game, when he doesn't seem too enthusiastic about it? (I guess because he likes the bandwith?) How do they know eachother if Scratch doesn't really believe in all this non-human stuff? And, what does it mean to be "off the grid" or to get "fried"?

Lastly, I agree with the line of thinking that Labyrinth is a massive AI program, based on Beth's e-mail saying that Labyrinth could make quick work of her files. Obviously, Marcus thought the same thing, and seems to have let Labyrinth loose on Beth's archives, probably the reason for many of them being lost (or, one could speculate that Labyrinth let itself loose). So, the process of Labyrinth going through Beth's archives left a big footprint on the logs, and Ceasar noticed this, which leads to the conversation above.

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Until now, we have:

*.jpg = Caesar
*.mic = Stratch

(Agreed ?)

So, who is omni and Stan ?

PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:22 pm
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Labirynth

We know that Metacortex is working with The Aquapolis, don't we? Well, the name of the Labyrinth program seems to point that it will be the AI controlling the Aquapolis. What do you think?

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trip wrote:
And, what does it mean to be "off the grid" or to get "fried"?


Trip, those phrases did not sit quite right with me either. In this day and age, I would expect "off the grid" to be either "off the internet" or "off of the power grid." It's pretty obvious that neither of these is the case (unless you want to get into minutiae like "maybe they're using a portable generator"). In science fiction, you get all kinds of meanings for "off the grid," with the grid being "cyberspace," but given the timeframe of this stuff, I don't buy that (unless they have pre-beta access to the MetaVRX consoles?). Fried could mean so many different things, it's hard to speculate. Caught? Fired? Disconnected? Killed? Might that have to do with the missing file extensions this time around (m_u, qm2, etc.)?

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It seems an X, or a cross. There is a symbol above


Well that pic pretty much seems like a dolphin to me (it's like jumping towards the screen) which might go with someones theory (niobexrev?) about wongmo mentioning dolphins, and the whole MySQL thing.

RayJNT

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omni is .graffle

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L'Maut wrote:
Quote:
I checked the moon sky pic, with some pics behind ...

I donīt know what they mean, but they seem important.


It looks like a tarot deck. The superimposed sky may reference the Moon card, but I'm not certain what the significance of that may be. The layout of the cards resembles the Thoth Spread, which means the deck may be Crowley's Book of Thoth, or possibly the Egyptian Book of Doors.


Could this link back to the the u/n and p/w "proteus" and "door"? Proteus was an Egyptian king, linked with a god of the same name who was the son of Poseidon in Greek mythology.

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Proteus3.html

That might link nicely in with the Aquapolis, being Greek and watery. All a bit vague, I know.

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I corrected the perspective of the pictures. Check them out now. They do seem tarot cards now Smile

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