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[Sharpsniper99]

[INFO] The Artifact Location (206.16.223.76)

[Ho-Musabi]

Yes! This gives us both the password and site from the pictures, we now have all the logical steps.

[Sharpsniper99]

yep were no longer missing the link to find this page, now we just have the hassle of figuring out what we do with this page

[unknown v2]

I found this out 20 hours ago. I thought it was already found.

It was right there in the html...

http://www.halo3forum.com/2716137-post36.html

[eranmane]

On IRC (#ci/abo) I was talking to a few people about Artifact, we believe that a greasemonkey script could replace akqa-stagings.com/topsecret.xml with a similar XML file, but with random set to false (instead of true...)

Any greasemonkey coder up to the challenge?

[unknown v2]

I don't think editing a file linked to a server of Microsft's studio (Bungie) that is important in their scavenger hunt in wise.

[sayanything562]

im up for it

[corban]

Right Ive cleared my temp internet files, refeshed the http://theartifactlocation.com, grabbed those files and placed them in a folder. Removed the [1] from each file. Created the necessary file structure and then changed the link for the xml file so it runs from within the folder. Changed true to false within topsecret.xml and the result is that it removes the random character generation after each location.



If you use something like sothink swf decompiler and look at arc.swf, you find within the actionscript a class called com.arc.Password and this has a function to check the entered password

function checkPassword()
{
if (text == "boomerang")
{
return(true);
}
else
{
return(false);

Looking more you can find another class called com.arc.Randomletters which seemingly generates the randomtext after each city if anybody would like to analyse this the codes below, im not because im finding this arg just to addictive n really need to get some work done.

#initclip
class com.arc.RandomLetters
{
var myField, intervalID, intervalID1, intervalID2;
function RandomLetters()
{
} // End of the function
function centerShuffle(targetField, textToDecrypt, speed)
{
myField = targetField;
var randomCounter = 0;
var realCounter = 0;
var textWritten = "";
if (textToDecrypt.length % 2 == 0)
{
var textPar = true;
} // end if
targetField.intervalID = setInterval(function ()
{
randomCounter++;
if (randomCounter <5>= textToDecrypt.length)
{
targetField.text = textWritten;
clearInterval(targetField.intervalID);
}
else
{
_l6 = chr(random(93) + 33);
_l1 = chr(random(93) + 33);
targetField.text = _l6 + textWritten + _l1;
} // end if
} // end if
}, speed);
} // End of the function
function textShuffle(targetField, textToDecrypt, speed, textAlignment)
{
var self = this;
var randomCounter = 0;
var realCounter = 0;
var textWritten = targetField.text;
if (textToDecrypt.length % 2 == 0)
{
var textPar = true;
} // end if
var intervalID = new Number();
intervalID = setInterval(function ()
{
randomCounter++;
if (randomCounter <5>= textToDecrypt.length)
{
targetField.text = textWritten;
clearInterval(targetField.intervalID);
}
else
{
_l8 = chr(random(93) + 33);
_l1 = chr(random(93) + 33);
targetField.text = _l8 + textWritten + _l1;
} // end if
}
else
{
var _l3 = textToDecrypt.substr(realCounter, 1);
textWritten = textWritten + _l3;
realCounter++;
randomCounter = 0;
if (targetField.length >= textToDecrypt.length)
{
targetField.text = textWritten;
clearInterval(intervalID);
self.onShuffleFinished();
}
else
{
_l2 = chr(random(93) + 33);
targetField.text = textWritten + _l2;
} // end if
} // end if
}, speed);
} // End of the function
function killCycle()
{
clearInterval(intervalID);
clearInterval(intervalID1);
clearInterval(intervalID2);
} // End of the function
} // End of Class
#endinitclip

[unknown v2]

So doing that was basically pointless?

[thebruce]

UPDATE
current status: this morning the city list was updated to include the 081607 before the random characters - August 16th, 2007 (Thursday)

[corban]

Yup seemingly pointless, topsecret.xml is just a feed. I guess theyll be adding to it as n when they feel. Theyve added 081607 to each location within topsecret.xml, so maybe its worth keeping n eye on though.

[Tapsen]

Too bad I'm not in one of those cities...

[nubee2010]

Well, I'm in the Seattle area but my schedule and availability to go somewhere for the ARG is questionaable. Should someone start separate threads for each city in the prospect of a meet-up tomorrow?

[Barfingkitty]

Glyph is missing

[Vossk]

Its still there. Its just hard to see and only comes up when the password entry appears