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[INFO] Dana's Blog (up thru Friday, July 23)
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krystyn
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Thanks for pointing that out to me. I had forgotten that post.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:18 am
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Ikkarus
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If your referring to my Dana quote post, there was nothing to forget. I just got the response from her late yesterday and this is the first I've posted of it. Sorry to get people's hopes up for a potential puzzle, but it's probably nothing.
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Hmmm, if you got your response late yesterday, and you got the hotmail hack phrase, head spinning, etc. like so many of the others, why was mine different?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:38 am
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I wouldn't think too hard on that. I had some email issues over the last day or two, so when I received the mail may have little in common with when it was sent.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:48 am
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Varin
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her blog has been updated with info on the hotmail hack...

Quote:
Ladybee777 "odd behavior cry for help"
Woke up Tuesday to an alarming email from Aunt Margaret. (Apparently, so did quite few of you, as evidenced by the many "I think your aunt has completely lost it" messages I received.)

It took several hours to finally get a hold of Aunt M on the phone. Before I could say a word about the "odd behavior cry for help," she had her own email question for me:

Did I have any idea why all of her Hotmail would disappear overnight?

I logged in as ladybee777 to check out the damage. Old password worked fine. But no mail in any of the folders…? Weird. (Where was the concerned reply I had sent her that morning?)

Wrote a quick test message and sent it off to myself. Nothing shows up in my gmail inbox. Try again, this time to an older account. Check there: Nothing. Again. Rinse. Repeat. Nothing. Like a little Maxwell's Demon siphoning off all ingoing and outgoing messages. (And apparently sending out its own.)

So Aunt Margaret's email appears to have gone the way of the China countdown. Hijacked. Repurposed.

My first instinct: ask Hotmail to kill the account entirely. But then someone calling him (her?) self "xnbomb" sent me a very persuasive email that made me rethink things. Read for yourself:

It seems that snippets of various emails that have been sent to you by my colleagues have been reassembled and sent back, apparently originating from your aunt's hotmail address. I'm not really sure what it means at this point. But it tells us that we can communicate with these entities using email. In the absence of having a clear idea of just what is going on, the first priority is to communicate, that is how we can learn more. It's at least possible that we've stumbled across something extraordinary here, and our first priority must be to learn all that we can about it.

It's for that reason that I'm going to suggest that you take no further action that interferes with what's going on at ilovebees.com. There's another reason too, one slightly more disturbing. Consider this passage from the end of the tale hidden in the images:

"The day will break and the sun will rise when the Queen returns to rule, and further let it be known that retribution on any who hinder the return of the Queen will be swift and terrible.

This is a significant warning, namely that any interference with that process will be regarded as a hostile act, and will be responded to accordingly. I don't know what the SPDR is capable of, but I'm not sure I want to find out.It's for this reason that I suggest that you don't do anything else to get in the way of this business. If your aunt's business needs a functioning web site immediately, purchase her a new and similarly named domain and get her web site going there. But let this follow its course… while it could just be some hackers being jerks, there is at least a chance that this is something unique and important and wonderful, a window on a world that we may have never seen before, nor will ever see again.

Optimistic and curious, yet with the good sense to be terrified. This seems like a pretty good fix on the situation — thanks, xnbomb.

I am, of course, wildly nervous about letting the bug(s) continue wreaking havoc entirely unimpeded. But nothing, and I mean nothing, I was doing on the tech side seemed to make a damn bit of difference anyway. So it seems like a good plan to switch gears from active damage control to... well, what?

(ideas?)

P.S. Have decided to try to shield Aunt M from the latest development, so for now I'm telling her it's a widespread Hotmail glitch. I hope I'm doing the right thing.



Edited to add: Could Dana's references to hacking hotmail not be telling us to hack into it, but simply referring to the bees' hacking of it? *shrug*
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Hack not

Varin wrote:
Edited to add: Could Dana's references to hacking hotmail not be telling us to hack into it, but simply referring to the bees' hacking of it? *shrug*

I had another brief email correspondance with Dana on this topic, and it seems clear that between what she wrote in her blog and her email reply that we are not meant to hack in there.
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Re: Hack not

xnbomb wrote:
Varin wrote:
Edited to add: Could Dana's references to hacking hotmail not be telling us to hack into it, but simply referring to the bees' hacking of it? *shrug*

I had another brief email correspondance with Dana on this topic, and it seems clear that between what she wrote in her blog and her email reply that we are not meant to hack in there.


ah good! It's settled then!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:07 pm
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it's probably nothing and just somebody not knowing what's going on, but anyway...
Bob Jones wrote in the comments:
"Dana, no offense but maybe you should take the comments feature off your blog. There are so many crazies on the internet right now, with all their conspiracy theories. I mean movie trailers leading to your website? Come on. Anyhow, maybe it's better if people just communicate via email? That way you can atleast filter out stuff and if you get good emails, you can post them on your blog. What do you think?"

his profile says:
Bob Jones
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* Industry: Business Services
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thephoenixSPLATwebmail.co.za

I just thought maybe it should be mentioned... because I am not seeing many promising leads at the moment at all.

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Did you guys see where she said something about "xnbomb"

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My first instinct: ask Hotmail to kill the account entirely. But then someone calling him (her?) self "xnbomb" sent me a very persuasive email that made me rethink things. Read for yourself:


Was she referring to you?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 1:18 pm
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Perhaps he/she took that name here because Dana mentioned it.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 1:35 pm
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Giskard
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Check the Interaction Forum for more info on this: Dana asked Xnbomb if she could use his e-mail and show it to others. Which she did.

Xnbomb is a regular at unFiction and not part of this game (apart from playing it Smile)
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xnbomb
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[OT/HUMOR] Do I even exist?

Thanks for vouching for me G.

Way back during Project Mu, I was accused of being an artificial intelligence. Since I started corresponding with Dana, I've now had someone suggest that I'm an imposter, and on #beekeepers someone else suggested that I'm in fact fictional and don't really exist. Rolling Eyes

I'm moving up in the world Laughing
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Re: [OT/HUMOR] Do I even exist?

xnbomb wrote:
Way back during Project Mu, I was accused of being an artificial intelligence. Since I started corresponding with Dana, I've now had someone suggest that I'm an imposter, and on #beekeepers someone else suggested that I'm in fact fictional and don't really exist. Rolling Eyes

I'm moving up in the world Laughing


Woah, hey, are you saying that you are NOT an artificial intelligence?! Wink Cool
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Fraxxxi wrote:
it's probably nothing and just somebody not knowing what's going on, but anyway...
Bob Jones wrote in the comments:
<snip>

I just thought maybe it should be mentioned... because I am not seeing many promising leads at the moment at all.


Just so you dont keep wondering about this:

Phoenix (aka Bob Jones) is just a saucey UF regular. Anything you find about him in his blogger profile and stuff is somewhat of a joke that started way before the Haunted Apiary did. So just take his comments as a player posting, and not someone behind the scenes.
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rowan72 wrote:
Fraxxxi wrote:
it's probably nothing and just somebody not knowing what's going on, but anyway...
Bob Jones wrote in the comments:
<snip>

I just thought maybe it should be mentioned... because I am not seeing many promising leads at the moment at all.


Just so you dont keep wondering about this:

Phoenix (aka Bob Jones) is just a saucey UF regular. Anything you find about him in his blogger profile and stuff is somewhat of a joke that started way before the Haunted Apiary did. So just take his comments as a player posting, and not someone behind the scenes.


Yeah, Bob Jones is my alter-ego as well as ThePhoenix. It's a character I created Smile That's just me trying to filter out all the noise on Dana's blog.

D-

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