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amandel
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 		Am unsure how recent this is but Alex (photo) has disappeared from her Alex in the City blog's header.
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Areian
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 		Yup, her picture has disappeared. She probably want to distance herself from all the weird stuff going on around Rossum and herself, by being as anonymous as possible.
The photo was most likely removed at the same time her new post went up (Cupcakes & Dilemmas)

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:39 pm
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Randomeis
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 		My dinner with with Topher
emails w/ everyone's favorite brain
So after trying a few email's for the Ros Corp site
I received the best response I could hope for our very own Topher.. (I'm a fan)
ME
Quote:
Topher,
You don't know me but I have reason to believe that the Tokyo House and your rival Koji Takahashi are trying to perfect Remote Wipes.
Just a heads up.
- Joe


Topher
Quote:
Hey Joe Joe -- I've no idea what you're going on about, crazy person.


Me
Quote:
Thanks for the reply...
Here is a nice link for you to check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkf0Uyn9HlY
- Crazy Joe Joe


Topher

Quote:
Joester - that doesn't make you look any less crazy I'm afraid! Ditch
the tech? Love the tech.

'pher


Chix suggested I bring up 59002
Quote:
I agree... I just got a DROID phone loving it

Maybe if you look up room 59002 in the Tokyo Branch... you might see that i'm just a tad bit less crazy. It is on their Creation Floor.
and don't give me any lip about not having access... I'm sure one such as yourself would have ways.
-Joester


Topher
Quote:
Bwa-hah. Tokyo? They got nothing useful. Because they don't got s'me.


Me
Quote:
Bro,
I know and you know that is true, but does ros corp? How many chairs do you have?

{Info from the Tokyo Ros Corp Page}


Topher
Quote:
Hmm, I thought you might be a fan of my work and be about to bring me
young-but-entirely-legal girls of the genius fan variety. But no.
Instead you send this. That will be a prank, there's no way Ambrose
and friends would allow something like this.

'pher,


Based on his reaction to the project I took a risk and gave him the username and pass to check for himself

Quote:
I do have friends that wonder if you are single.. but more than that I offer proof
Login and check for yourself
Username: koji.takahashi
Pass: 962


Topher's response well that and locking us out of the Tokyo Branch
Quote:
Joey (sadly not from TV's Hit Friends, I fear),

I have consulted with my bossfriends, and they say the site is a badly
drawn fake. Although I'd love to play with one of those imprint
chairs one day.

Signed,

My awesome and overly brainy brain.


My response
Quote:
Odd... I never mentioned what site it was only the login and pass. Assuming you would access the intranet for the very domain that we are emailing back and forth from.
So which site pray tell are you claiming to be fake, man friend?
- Not the Joey from Blossom either "Woh!"


Waiting for a reply back to the above
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:49 pm
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ThisIsYourLife
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 		Just another oversight pointing to the identity of the person behind this (Dessy/WhyIWatch):

http://twitter.com/arachnocraft

Their last tweet was promoting WhyIWatch.

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MJinMichigan
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 		E-Mail with Sara from Spectrin
I have noticed, since I'd first e-mailed Sara Kingsley at her gmail address, that I can tell when she's actively online. I've attempted to chat with her several times, but with no response.

I sent several chat messages that went unresponded to yesterday, and sent this e-mail before bed:

Quote:
Sara -
I hope you made it safely to Tucson. I've attempted to initiate a few Google Chats with you when I've seen you were online, but no luck thus far. Instead, I thought I might try this route.

I'm sorry you weren't able to convince Alex of any possible danger. I was at least relieved that she logged in toward the end of the day and sounded safe for the moment. Your encounter with her unnerved her quite a bit. Did you happen to recognize her companion? He, frankly, seems suspicious to me and several of the "Twitterites" who are concerned about her.

In addition to hoping this finds you safely in Arizona, I was reading your biography on the Spectrin website and about all of your accomplishments. I hope your screenplay is going well. The bio mentioned that your doctoral work was mentioned in The Phenomenon of Man, which was published in 1955 after the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, but actually finished in the 1930's. From the photograph on the website, which admittedly could be an old one, I wouldn't put you over 30. Perhaps one of your cases involved the Fountain of Youth?!

Anyway, it's not a big deal, just a curiousity I noticed while fidgeting around waiting for input, trying to make sense of this admittedly odd situation. I sincerely appreciate your willingness to keep me in the loop thus far.

Best Regards -


I just got a response:
Quote:
Hello, MJ!
The chat attempts seem to have gone through to my phone whenever it was in range, but I was traveling so didn't see them. I arrived in Tucson last night. So far, I haven't found any sign of a Technical Institute. I am about to rent a car and drive around.
The picture on bio is about 10 yrs old, I must update it. I appreciate your interest in Chardin. He is a worthy read, but his work and my connections to it are of no relevance to this case. Suffice it to say that all partners at our firm have had unique cases in the field. This one, if my suspicions prove correct, will unfortunately stand out as one of the most sinister.
Sara


I then noticed she showed as "active" Smile so I sent an IM saying that I was glad she was safely in Tucson, and she told me that was very kind of me. Then she promptly showed as offline.

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Saffity
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 		Hi everyone, I'm new but I've been lurking here for a while.

I just emailed Rossum about information for their intern program, we'll see if I get anything back.

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s26hedgehog
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 		Wipethefuture.com
first idea
Hi hi. I'm a newbie, as in I didn't know that ARGs even existed until someone that I follow twittered about the rossumcorporation.com login info. This looks like tons of fun. Since I'm really really new (and it's the end of the semester) I'll probably be a huge lurker. I thought I would try something though. Would it be worth anything to contact the domain owner or admin of wipethefuture.com? They are protected through privacyprotection.org. Or is that silly?
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4WPUAR
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ThisIsYourLife wrote:
Just another oversight pointing to the identity of the person behind this (Dessy/WhyIWatch):

http://twitter.com/arachnocraft

Their last tweet was promoting WhyIWatch.


I've been wondering about them!

On a similar note, I was wondering if anyone had further info on powermatters.com (as per wipethefuture msg). I checked out their webpage, and it seemed pretty innocuous - they are a power company in the UK - but one of their promo pics was 5 blue foam dolls standing in a pentagram, which sent my spidey sense tingling. And the case seems to be making more referrals to eg the need for extra access vents etc in Iceland. On the TV show they made a point of mentioning how the Dollhouses were 'off the grid' and 'self-contained' in regards to their power supply, which would need a power company to help. I wanted to email powermatters.com, but I need further confirmation before I start bugging a potentially legit company. Anyone with more internet savvey than me (ie ANY savvey at all) know anything about their source etc?

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Alder
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 		Re: Wipethefuture.com
first idea
s26hedgehog wrote:
Hi hi. I'm a newbie, as in I didn't know that ARGs even existed until someone that I follow twittered about the rossumcorporation.com login info. This looks like tons of fun. Since I'm really really new (and it's the end of the semester) I'll probably be a huge lurker. I thought I would try something though. Would it be worth anything to contact the domain owner or admin of wipethefuture.com? They are protected through privacyprotection.org. Or is that silly?


ARGs can be really addicting. You might have stumbled into a whole new hobby Very Happy

I'd say no in contacting the domain owner. It's unlikely that the hosting service would provide any info without something like a court order, and the info about who owns the site is going to lead to the "puppetmasters" (PMs) , who are the people running the game. They give us the clues and direct the story, but they aren't really in the game. In this case, we have already have a idea of who the PM for this game is - it looks like they reused an old demo website for spectrin, and it was pretty easy to track down who designed it. Knowing who the PMs are is really only important so we know who to shower with praise and thanks for their hard work when it's over.

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Alder
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4WPUAR wrote:
but one of their promo pics was 5 blue foam dolls standing in a pentagram, which sent my spidey sense tingling. And the case seems to be making more referrals to eg the need for extra access vents etc in Iceland.


Hmmm, interesting. Got a link for the page you saw this on?

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s26hedgehog
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 		URS Ltd
It might be worth looking into, simply because their postal address is for WorkWell Health, not URS Ltd. Creepily enough, on the workwell-health.co.uk, there are 5 faceless doll-like models.
On the other hand Russell Bourne, who is suppose to own the company has a Linkedin account.

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disko2000n
Kilroy

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 		spectrin/sara's note update
hello,
i'm new here, but following the ditchthetech storry for a while.
if i make spelling errors, please excuse me, but i'm not a native speaker.

back to the story:

sara updated her notes on the spectrin site:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Sara's Notes

11/20/09 | 1:10pm

Bobby,

I've moved hotels. Someone attempted to poison me at lunch today. Thankfully, half of my purse contains antidotes, so managed to counteract. However, I've had to discard my SIM chip, and will only use anonymous networks. I'll be in touch. As always, there will be light.

Sara
...


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chixor1
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 		New video up on ditchthetech website.
Confirmation details within the video for us to verify with Alex.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
She ripped the ribbon on one of the shoes that Matt bought her, and she never told him.


I asked Alex about it and she started to freak out, confirming the info in the video.
She is going to email me, and I will tell her abou the new video.
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MJinMichigan
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 		Ditch the Tech Transcript
Can you proof for me?
Need help -- see if you hear anything different on the video from www.ditchthetech.com. There are a few words I wasn't sure of:

Quote:
I only have about 2 minutes left before the wielders lock in on the signal. This is the end of the road for me. I've been shot. I've convinced the others to move on without me because we haven't yet found safe haven. (coughing) Sara, if you hear this, I love you with all my heart. My name is Alex Dawson. At the end of 2009, Rossum hired me to head their PR department. They gave me a cushy corner office which I only saw twice. After that, I was sent off on a business trip in Arizona. I never came back. They wiped my mind and made me someone else. A woman by the name of Sara Kingsley found me a year later. She placed a tattoo on the back of my neck and which helped me slowly recover myself. I was never the same. Rossum scientists wipe people's minds. They turn them into living dolls, then sell them for the night, for the week. Soon they'll figure out a way to sell them forever. They can do this to you, to me, to anyone. Sara has been working on a cure but she hasn't figured it out yet. You have to help her find it before it's too late. Find it before this starts. Ten years ago, my boyfriend's name was Matt, He bought me beautiful shoes and just before a big date, I broke the ribbon on the back of one. I never told anyone. I was a naïve girl with a lot of ambition who didn't know who she was. Then I became a nobody. Maybe there's… (moaning, gunshots. End of Feed.)


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chixor1
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 		So Alex emailed me, asking what's going on.
here is the exchange:

Alex:
Quote:
What's going on???


Chixor:
Quote:
I promise you I am not following you, or do I have any ill will towards you. I just want to help you I hope you can trust me, I'm frightened by what I have been discovering.
I know you think we are crazy twitter people, but I assure you it's only from concern.

This afternoon, I was bored and wanted to check out that strange video we told you about.
When I went to the website www.ditchthetech.comthe video had changed, it was a different one.

The women in the video said that 10 years prior, she dated a man called Matt.
She never told him, but just before one of their big dates, she ripped/damaged the ribbon on one of the shoes that he had bought her.
That's why I asked.

Please see for yourself.
Again, I want to help, if there is anything I can do to help you out with this, please let me know

Concerned,


Alex:
Quote:
sorry, i have to go talk to matt. i promise i'll check in tomorrow. thanks for caring.



My final response was to ask her to stay safe.
I also told her that for security reasons, if she ever doubts who I am, or vice versa, she is to ask me about the peeps on my arms.
One is pink and one is blue.
That way we have an identity check.

Lets see what happens tonight/tomorrow.
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