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[Antony C]

[perplexed]

it doesnt appear to matter if you double the mount command or if you use rotate copy instead of rotate rotate or copy copy

[jbd]

The files for end-end changed on the hour. Putting details on wiki.

It looks like (by UTC) the times are divided as so:
1-3:
4-6: Suspicious delivery guy -- Krsa algorithm
7-9:
10-12: Over and out (?) -- ??
13-15: Getting dodgy (?) -- ??
16-18: 14th of July (?) -- ??
19-21: "Themes" for encryption work -- "drinks" conversation
22-24: packing crate missing -- alternate to-do list

The (?) marks are because we didn't keep careful track of time and they might be one of the earlier times and we just missed a gap somehow.

The ?? marks are the other files the voice ones are paired up with. I vaguely recall the 14th of July one didn't have a paired file, but I figure it's worth a doublecheck just in case.

EDIT: Checked at 5:15, moved Krsa appropriately. Been gone in between so I missed 1-3 if it exists. Did anybody check during that time? (Not totally sure still if it's 3 hour intervals -- could be 4 hour, in which case we have all the recordings.)

[_izzy_]

transcript of the 'quantum'/'Encryption themes' log:

[Scribe]

Oop, some triplicated effort going on - I posted Izzy's transcript to the wiki but good job achenar and mico too.

I've also added a couple of approximate recording times to the audio entries on the wiki, based on Sentinel articles. More are probably needed...

[achenar]

I'm absolutely useless for actually accessing stuff through the backdoor, so I thought I'd transcribe the latest audio file. If someone wants to wikify it, that'd be great.

[Juxta]

Reference to the Museum protest would date this piece of audio to sometime late September or early October 2005. Two articles from the Sentinel told us on Monday September 26th and then the following week, Monday October 3rd of protests being held on the previous weekends.

The protests were against the controversial exhibit on "The War" - chief amongst the ranks of those wielding placards outside were the "Peace Watchers", led by 80-year old botanist Soo-Yung Rosenthal. Probably not directly related to our cryptography sleuthing, but useful information for us to be able to build up a timeline with.

J

[achenar]

New audio file's been found - not by me, but I've just transcribed it.

[jonc]

Morning there guys (here in the UK).


Just checked

end end mount -- -- / -- -- cache copy -- / -- -- rotate copy -- / -- -- rotate zone --

(for the latest audio file)

It's cycled round again to the "Audio: Suspicious delivery guy"
at 8:35 GMT

Maybe we've got all the audio files? It was mused on IRC last night that they changed every 3 hours (changed at 11 gmt last night), and we have 6, which means that we would be missing 2 (presuming that there is a new file every three hours, and they cycle)

0200:1:0500:2:0800:3:1100:4:1400:5:1700:6:2000:7:2300:8:¬
<-----------------------------------------------------------------------/

or am I down completly the wrong track.....

edit:
Maybe all the audio file commands link to the same "place", and it changes according to time, but we didn't spot this as we found the commands at different times? (we might be able to include the "KRSA algorithm" as one of the files)
/edit


jonc

[Scribe]

Mornin'... I think you're on the right track jonc, yeah - I was kinda hoping they'd cycle, otherwise we'd be missing a whole bunch from various times, so yay

I think your "edit" speculation is pretty much on, too. The only slight "spanner" in consistency is the fact that the number of files seems to change over time too - sometimes (usually?) there's only 1 audio fie accessible, but sometimes that changes to include some text files (e.g. the KRSA one and the todo list) as well.

I figure there must be a reason for the files to change regularly - it can't just be a deus ex machina plot device to keep us going, can it? Like, maybe the back door logs in from a different "point" in the file system (only revealable after a couple of ENDs) to evade some kind of security mechanism?

Depending on what it's doing, the commands to access different files may change or not, as I see it.


BTW, a few names have been bandied around about who this is, including Lyssa Ling and (ok, just by me ) Karen Moro. Could we keep track of some of these plausible suggestions on the Wiki, linking to possible evidence and such for each one?

[spugmeistress]

for reasons previously mentioned *and* from listening to both the bar none and walkthrough phone messages, i don't think it is violet.

so far the evidence we seem to have is :- works for crypto, has a father (possibly prominent and/or ill), knows quantum encryption (possibly on the white paper? - abigail cienaga, karen moro), lives in the artist's quarter (near helix house)

i don't think the mysterious person is blackmailing or threatening her father, rather offering some kind of medical help that he would probably die without - hence why she thanks them for him getting better and stuff.

i think this also points to the mysterious person being helena frye, rather than any of the evil 3p, as they possibly wouldnt be so kind in their recruitment deals.

rach =)

[Mico]

It was mentioned in chat last night (first by Cassandra I think) that Kurt was 'going out' / 'not going out' with a girl from Crypto, when he and Violet were trying to get hold of the Granier Diary.

[SteveC]

****SPEC**** Could even have put the father on the ceratin 5 trials? **** SPEC****

I've also emailed Kurt suggesting that there's a possibility the girl in crypto he dated was this one?

Finally - the files change over ever three hours? 11pm last night - that would mean 2am, 5am and 8am - but they changed over at 9am as far as I could tell?

[silvermoon]

If the mysterious person put the father on the ceretin trial, the dad would be getter better regardless of our mole's performance no?

Perhaps the mysterious person was Miranda? She wouldn't have needed all her Ceretin 6 to kill Isaac, would she? Perhaps she is using some of her stash to blackmail someone whose prominent father had that disease she was pretending to have?

Don't know how we'd check that out though.

[Juxta]

Neither of Kurt's previous "girlfriends" really fits the bill unfortunately - there was an un-named "girl-from-anthro" :-