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**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:22 am

Caterpillar

Now I'm really, really, really jealous! Smile

~cem

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 8:39 am

aliendial

So Mr. Lake was unfortunately unable to attend, but he bought us a round at Gordon Biersch. But he left a message with this cryptic note at the bottom:

NEON NOTE @ LVCC

Having previously received other items including two separate clues to visit Kinko's, and since there was a Kinkos' right there (as well as a Starbucks for Space and Scarpe...), we visited there first and succeeded in completely mystifying the poor girl at the counter.

Having googled "lvcc" and neon note with our lovely microbrew beers at Gordon Biersch on Mott's multi-functional phone, we decided maybe we had already accomplished what the kinko's hints wanted us to do - figure out what lvcc could be.

Las Vegas Convention Center? Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce? Two cars, two options. (No businesses named neon note etc). We passed on the Las Vegas Cigar Company (owners of lvcc.com) as geographically un desirable for the moment, since we are running out of time before we have to meet Martha over at Hard Rock...

And as of 4:50PM local time, the first two LVCCs are a bust.

More news later.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 7:52 pm

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Ozy_y2k

Hmm, AD, the reference to "FOIA" on the card you received says "Freedom of Information Act" to me. Seeing as the FOIA was also referenced (I believe) at some point on the LLL website, maybe there's some sort of subsidiary clue there?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 8:46 pm

Caterpillar

I've never been to vegas...but could it possibly mean a NOTE on the windshield of a NEON (car) parked in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center?

(Probably a ton of cars right...lol?)

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:02 pm

konamouse

Note was finally found at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Yahoo IM was a bust.

But while at dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe a message was delivered to our table for us to visit the concierge at the Hard Rock Casino and show him a business card. Eureka!

Inside the envelope - mini CD with the hand written message -
To: SMART PEOPLE
HOPE THIS HELPS
-HEXEDITOR

The following, on L3 letterhead, was inside (verbatim).

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:09 am

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r u a Sammeeeee? I am Forever!

Aveena

Ok, I haven't been following L3 very closely so I'm prepared for the fish if it comes my way, but...

The Y! profile for LLL_PLLC has a link to a blog for Hexeditor at http://hexeditor.blogspot.com/.

Is this new?

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:23 am

LazarusLong

Here's the group assembled at Gordon Biersch after being stood up by Stephen Lake, and a shot of the infamous disc.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 3:15 am

vpisteve

Here's a screenshot of the purge directory on the disk.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:03 am

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

The files in the purge directory are the same as those listed in purge.log previously found on the NRU site. Don't know why I didn't do this before but I dug around and found what the files are:
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aaw582.exe (Lavasoft Ad-aware 5.82)
- anti adware/spyware program

as-101.exe (AntiSniff v1.01)
- monitors networks for "sniffers used by hackers to extract data from systems

dsniff-2.3.tar.gz (dsniff)
- collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing

eraser53.zip (Eraser v5.3)
- secure data removal tool

fczip004.exe
- not sure about this one but I think it's related to pczipcarck, a zip cracking tool

idserve.exe (ID Serve)
- Internet Server Identification Utility

lc252install.zip
- password cracking tool

patchwrk.exe (PatchWork)
- Internet Anti-Intrusion Patch Verification and Intrusion Evidence Scanner

pskill.zip (PsKill)
- Used to terminate processes

pslist.zip (PsList)
- Used to view detailed information about process CPU and memory usage

rootkit.zip
- not sure about this one but appears to be a hacking kit

showin.zip (ShoWin)
- uncovers hidden windows and some passwords

spade114.exe (Sam Spade v1.14)
- network query tool with extra utilities built in to handle spam mail

spyxx.zip (Spy++)
- gives you a graphical view of the system's processes, threads, windows, and window messages

subotronic.zip (Sub-O-Tronic)
- traceroute utility

superscan.exe (SuperScan)
- TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver

udpflood.zip (UDPFlood)
- UDP packet sender

unpnp.exe (UnPlug n' Pray)
- Disable Windows'Universal Plug n' Play Support
---------------------------------------------------

Most of them appear to the hacking or anti-intrusion tools. Fits the theme doesn't it?

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:09 pm

Caterpillar

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:22 pm

Caterpillar

BTW....did you all have any idea at all any of this was going to happen? Or were you completely surprised? I'm curious how shocked you all were, just going to Vegas for a "Fest" and to meet with some fellow ARGers and all of a sudden there's an ARG that has followed you there...lol...did it feel sort of surreal?

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:49 pm

Valas · Unfettered Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 326

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:03 pm

dmax

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:22 pm

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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

Caterpillar

Sort of like a TRIBBLE? Laughing

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:33 pm