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Khaos · Decorated Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 287 Location: France

The Omphaputer is down

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 8:50 am

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Khaos · Decorated Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 287 Location: France

Everything's back... and Gazvin still pending Sad

Still it was weird having only a command prompt with nothing working

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(meta)Since everything is back to normal, I suggest that Khaos and I just experienced an update.
I wonder whether the ancient greeks have updated to IPv6, though.(/meta)

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 8:54 am

runeix ftlr

i think they updated? , cause i couldnt get it to load for a few minuites....
i wonder what has changed...

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 8:55 am

Khaos · Decorated Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 287 Location: France

Can TheBruce confirm a change in the omphaputer file ?

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 8:57 am

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thebruce

well don't take my word as final, but I noticed the problems, and the changed content was just errors - so it seems the site did just go down. When it was back up, the urls I'm tracking showed the same content as before the downtime. *shrug*

The latest update I've got is from the 19th, which I believe had some changes already noted: artifacts labelled recovered (and qazvin still pending), and some people I believe thought they noticed a change in the dots?
But nothing new since the downtime as far as I can tell.

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 9:28 am

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jorgeguberte · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 128 Location: Brazil

thebruce, have you ever decompiled the omphaputer swf, or know if someone did?

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 10:06 am

thebruce

just check your temporary internet files (browser cache or whatever your browser calls it Wink

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I have a script that periodically checks known urls for changes (headers/content/etc) and if it detects a change, it txt's my cell =), and it keeps a history for comparison. tracking a few args/websites that way. There's an rss feed for it here. it also catches some server errors and whatnot, so not every update is actually an update.

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 10:40 am

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jorgeguberte · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 128 Location: Brazil

nice!
i just cracked the shell, and there's massive amounts of code in it.

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 10:50 am

bryanflurry

Be careful with what you might find.. decompiling swf in ARGs is like opening pandora's box.

edit:

It's more likely that the PMs hid the sensitive data on a separate file. But anyway, I also take a peek sometimes.. Yay greek mythology reference! Wink

**Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 6:37 pm