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Final Countdown - San Francisco
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invisibo
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 		Time
NYC just got checked off but no new city went live so SF may be waiting until 11am.

What would happen if an agent "happened" to find the poster and made the call before SF went live on digital pulse?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:01 pm
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invisibo
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 		Toronto is done
Toronto just checked off on digitalpulse.
No new cities.
Hope you all have an extra few hours.

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invisibo
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 		Toronto and NYC summary
Both locs had a courier deliver a package that contained one of Flynn's books, a FL shirt, and some "shipping paperwork/invoices" that were clues to a new location. The package and docs were branded with "Dumont Shipping"

In NYC, there has been some outrage bc a friend of a guest of the forums took the package and ran off, leaving behind the group and generally being a bag of douche.

Is it possible for this to NOT happen in SF?
Also, I wonder if that book is really full of content?
Is it still raining in SF?

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ataraxey
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 		I'm sitting around union square at the borders bookstore, if anyone else is here email me and I'll give you my number
Patsteele AT gmail dot com

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invisibo
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 		FL Forum update
FL forum has 3 new threads.
The first one discusses the purpose of this "side-channel" attack.
The second one is banter and the third is literally a direct link to digitalpulse.
Presumably, the first and second thread hide clues to the massive digital pulse that we are all going to send to Flynn by (presumably again) end of day.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:59 pm
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grifta67
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 		Re: SF Geo loc hint
invisibo wrote:
37.787, -122.408

These coordinates will put you on the south side of Union square.

When SF goes live, expect coordinates to be close to this.
NYC location is not a notable bookstore location or anywhere "significant" to the ARG so far.


Whats your reasoning for these coordinates?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:04 pm
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invisibo
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 		reason
It was to give the field operatives a general idea of SF coordinates.
It would be foolish to assume that the location will be Union Square but it will likely be a downtown location and everyone knows Union Square. It's a ref point for when we see the actual coordinates...which probably won't be until 2 or 3pm today anyway.

Barely anyone has even checked in to indicate whether they are even online but I posted for those who are looking for hints/support from the forum.

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grifta67
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 		Re: reason
invisibo wrote:
It was to give the field operatives a general idea of SF coordinates.
It would be foolish to assume that the location will be Union Square but it will likely be a downtown location and everyone knows Union Square. It's a ref point for when we see the actual coordinates...which probably won't be until 2 or 3pm today anyway.

Barely anyone has even checked in to indicate whether they are even online but I posted for those who are looking for hints/support from the forum.


ahh ok, just making sure I didn't miss some sort of clue or something!

I've been in the field around the North Beach area, near City Lights Books and we have a group out near the Metreon.

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invisibo
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 		coverage
Sounds like excellent coverage.
Here is City Lights:
37.797628°N 122.406575°W

There is also this just in case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_Designated_Landmarks

Includes geocoo as well as address.

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 		To all SF operatives:

When the coordinates are shown please wait for everyone! We are here for the experience and we should share it equally!

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invisibo
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 		the drop puzzle
just in case you haven't seen it yet.
Courtesy of thebruce:

http://twitpic.com/3e3s8o

This is maybe what to expect.

At this point it is unclear if every city is receiving a similar puzzle.

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invisibo
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 		gen update
A new thread has begun to specifically focus on solving the puzzles that have been acquired.
A couple of cribbed notes:
The barcodes have no meaning.
There have been claims that the code below the poster is not a helloflynn code though it meets specs (10 digits) so who knows.
The book has been hollowed out as if to hide something inside.

Chicago and Houston just went live.

Can we figure out who is actually going to stick around on the ground through the afternoon when SF goes live?

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invisibo
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 		Toronto Summary
By now I assume that most of the field is in a cafe with wi-fi.
Kinda feel like I'm talking to myself but here is a very detailed description of what happeeed in Toronto:

From Traffic Jammer

Ok, Toronto report coming in...

Managed to get to meetup location, Starbucks at Chapters by the IMAX... But Traffic Jammer went to a different one. d'oh. But he being the one with the bike took the quick run to meet up. Unfortunately battle_cat and t3h0p3rat0r weren't able to be there for the 11am rush. So it was the two of us.

I hate that Ustream video wouldn't work - it simply would not connect to the server, and I have no idea why. Because what came would have been awesome to have recorded. I mentioned earlier that I love technology... well right now nothing seemed to be working

Thanks to sirpoins for tweeting the GPS coordinates as soon as possible, and for the address. VERY helpful. Technology strikes again - google maps app wouldn't paste the coords. grr. Got it to work eventually, and ran out the door, TJ right behind me. We took a couple different routes to the drop location, but I ended up there first.

Almost had another pitcell incident - I was at GZ, but wasn't sure what to look for (completely forgot). I left to enter the nearby business (which looked suspiciously apt for a deaddrop) but was puzzled as to what to do. Saw TJ arrive by bike, who hadn't yet got to GZ. But with another irc tip to find a post, I walked up to the one right in front of me and for the find. Woot!

TJ made the call on his cell phone, got the first stage done. We were told to wait for a delivery guy. Battle_cat showed up at this point, so we stuck the remainder out together.

Now this was the awesome part - the delivery guy was completely in character. Dumont Shipping package for the contact (me). Had to sign the Dumont release form and everything. Instructions were not to open the package until further contact.

TJ got the next call again, instructing us to go to a nearby cafe to meet a FL agent. A couple blocks away, we arrived and opened the package. Met the agent inside, who asked for the phone for confirmation. All was good, she turned her laptop around to the page requesting a 7 digit code. That is all.

Puzzle #2 - inside the package was a very nice quality book, Kevin Flynn's The Digital Frontier (dust jacket and all). But the inside was cut out, a book-safe as it were, containing 3 pages (identified by AOEWaterborn I believe as pages from a Tron cabinet matinenance manual). The last page of the book also had 3 holes punched out, connected by a circuit line. Clearly, it had to be placed correctly to reveal the code.

Here, I fail. I was looking for instructions, and the closest I found was about * and # being the beginning and end of a circuit route instruction or something... so I was running with that, but couldn't find a 7 digit code. TJ just suggested finding a spot that revealed numbers through each of the holes. I was skeptical but almost immediately 7 digits appeared in one position. Bingo. Node activated.

We stuck around a bit more, wary since the owner of the cafe we were in was about to kick us out (including the agent, who saved the day for us all because she'd purchased a drink earlier ) We chatted a bit, then headed out to find a better spot to camp for the rest of the day.

And now we're here. waiting. end of line.

I uploaded a bunch of pics to my twitter @thebruce0. I'll get more organized later.
battlecat took some video and we have a few other pics from the livedrop too, which also will come later

Awesome event! And great teamwork thanks to the online folk for the quick tips!

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grifta67
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 		I think I have clearance to work from home today, so I plan on staying out and about at a cafe near City Lights.

Since I'm doing real world work too though, I'm only going to check the digital pulse site on the hour. If anything happens at an odd time, I'm counting on the Starbucks team to buzz me via the FlynnLives_SF twitter account!

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 		Phoenix and Salt Lake City just went live. I'm at my office near California and Grant on the edge of downtown @ Chinatown waiting for SF to get it's coordinates. If the location is close enough, I'll try try meet up with the rest of the SF team.

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