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[Passenger 23B]

Ok... The Lost Experience is reporting a solution to the press release puzzle, but they've got it wrong and I figured out the correct solution (heh,heh).

If you go to www.thehansofoundation.org you will notice a press release on the first page referencing recent hacking. Clicking on the link there takes you to a .pdf document. Highlighting the .pdf document shows you some hidden text. Copying it gives you a link to this page: http://persephone.thehansofoundation.org

There are a group of numbers there:

106 98 111 32 117 98 115 32 114 115 110 102 32 102 118 32 102 118 101 71 32 49 32 108 110 90 32 116 117 98 46 83 69 71 32 103 110 32 111 118 32 116 98 73

Decoding these by ASCII code gives you the following (I've used [] to indicate what is coded as a block, or 32, in ASCII; also the last letter in the code, part of the "tbI" is a capital "i" not a lower-case "L"):

jbo[]ubs[]rsnf[]fv[]fveG[]1[]lnZ[]tuvFSEG[]gn[]ov[]tbI

Decoding this by ROT-13 gives you:
wob hof efas is sirT 6 yaM ghoSFRT ta ib goV

reversing it gives you:
Vog ib at TRFSohg May 6 Tris is safe foh bow

subsitituting L for V, B for N and H for R gives you:
Log in at THFSorg May 6 This is safe for now

The lost experience is reporting a link to the site thf.org and a date of May 1. I think they messed up, as thf.org is a real site for something else.

Going to THFS.org gives you a suspicious error page with a hansofoundation-esque graphic on it. My suspicion is that something new will pop up there tomorrow, on May 6th. We also may want to make note of the letters they are using to substitue (L/V, B/N, and H/R)... could lead to something else later. Perhaps the error graphic there bears some further investigation as well.

[weforgottenuno]

[kmduke]

How did you get the 6 Passenger?

[shinything]

I've seen that 404 graphic before. Don't think it's anything special, at least not yet, anyways. But I like that better than the May 1st thing.

[jonatj38]

Not quite

[empath]

[LordKinbote]

[curiouscat]

anyone having to log in a second time?

[Steamshell]

I saw someone mention that it might be "May 14" instead of "May 1".

I'm not sure how to solve stuff like this, but is that a possibility?

[Emericana]

I've seen that 404 before. I don't remember where, but it's not in-game. It's probably just a placeholder that a hosting company uses.

Anyway, the login at the botton of the hanso site...it used to time out if you tried to put something there, not it says invalid user...that has to be related...

[LordKinbote]

Re: anyone having to log in a second time?

[LordKinbote]

[curiouscat]

Re: anyone having to log in a second time?

[jonatj38]

No problem cat.

Good idea on the message, taking the "This is safe" literally. I've seen that done before. I don't know if T=S H=A I=F S=E would work because then T=E.

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