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[DC][Interaction] Alex and Phillip
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notgordian
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Entitled "Holiday Photos" From Phillip Brackin
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I don't know how much time I have before they come back! Yesterdaay morning the helicopter woke me up again and got curious, then lucky. Or maybe unlucky, I'm not sure anymore. You see, I found the channel the internal security cams are running on the other day and have been able to shut them down wehn I write my little excape notes like this one as a part of my encryption protocol. point being that I figure if I can turn them off I can also pirate and view them right? So when I hear that heli, thats excactly what I do. I'll be damned if I didn't fiund more than I bargained for! I didn't know what to do so I posted the thing on youtube as "holiday photos" - I don't know if you can do anyting about it but I now am convinced that I"m a prisoner here too. Its just a matter of time before my usefullness is over and they do the same thing to me. God I hope my encryption software is working and they aren't letting me hang myself with this! Tell Alex and Foo what's goign on, they w
ill know what to do I'm sure of it! Alex was my best friend, he won't let me sit here and rot!!! watch?v=n47iYv9qryM


I wrote Phil warning him Alex might not be sympathetic, and I did end up writing Foo (for the first time, actually). Foo seems to be completely in the dark about the current workings at DefenseCorp. I did warn him Alex might not want to know about this because of his daddy issues.

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Jelly
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Very interesting!

Tezar wrote:
Could that paper be the one from "Irony or fate" posts form Prophet's blog?


My thoughts exactly! I noticed as well that at about 00:21 in the vid, the police dude appears to be holding a book of some sort - anyone got any ideas about that? Also, does the fact that Phil got the vid from an internal security cam mean that he's closer than he thought to Brackin? (or did I miss something?!)

Looks like we have another You-Tube account to keep our eyes on now too! Smile

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WolfHawk
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I can't seem to locate the videos on You Tube. Can anyone give me a link? Thanks.

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Agent Lex
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Holiday Photos

It's only the one vid right now.

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WolfHawk
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Great, thanks!

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FMA2000
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n47iYv9qryM

i just got this this morning too. and wrote alex a warning letter forwarding the note.

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Wabonan
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lol I told them both about it, I even linked the video. I told Alex that D-corps was going to deprive him of his revenge...Lets see what happens next...lol
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I rewatched the Vid I think that book might be Brackins laptop... I watched that part several times from one angle it looks like a book from another it looks like a lap top... could it be 2 seperate things a book then a shot of his lap top?...I dono
Also that Guy is not a policeman in the south the hat is way too messed up... There is no way a cracker Police would let his hat get wrinkled....They usually take the hat off first...

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Agent Lex
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Wabonan wrote:
I rewatched the Vid I think that book might be Brackins laptop...


It could be. Would explain the logo on it, since that's about where Dell put their logo on their laptops.

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Tezar
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Agent Lex wrote:
Wabonan wrote:
I rewatched the Vid I think that book might be Brackins laptop...


It could be. Would explain the logo on it, since that's about where Dell put their logo on their laptops.


Agreed, that seems reasonably. I thought that his notebook is whole silver, but it's possible that it has black top. (at least I think that it is black on the video, you know,
Agent Lex wrote:
camera always lie


For those who, like me, doesn't know how Deel on notebook looks like:
Dell logo on notebook
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notgordian
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This was in response to an email I sent to Phil saying the paper was likely the prophecy, asking who the guy with the hat was, and warning that Alex might not be as sympathetic to Brackin's plight as Phil might expect.

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Prophecy? So he is back into his Nostradamus kick again? I think they have him in trailer 3,
and that gentleman with the hat is the guy I call "tiny", a real bastard. Sneers a lot, talks in single
syllable words between grunts. Him "Butch" and "Bones" are the only humans (and I use the word losely)
that I have seen in like 6 weeks. I'm goin' crazy man. As for alex, he woldn't hurt a friend, you must
have taken it out of context cuz that's not his MO. He and I had that argument about the file but that's
all in the past. Opps here they cme


So, Tiny Butch and Bones are the only people holding down the fort. Brackin's in Trailer 3, and Alex would never hold a grudge against Brackin because he'd never hurt a fly. Riiight.

EDITED FOR INCREDIBLY FAST RETURN EMAIL

And Phil gets back to me in record time in response to my question about what he's been working on...looks like he's trying to crack Brackin's computer.

Quote:
Thanks man! I haven't risked looking at the security cams again, they are
watching me too close, but tonight they don't seem to be messing with me.
Makes me wonder what they are doing instead, but I'm playin it cool. I told
some of the others that I overheard them talking about "the new client"
arriving and today they have me working on a deep encryption that requires
some sort of password. It's on a laptop hard-drive, but so far I can't get
so much as a start-up screen. I'm going to have to try to crack it tomorrow,
I'm beat.


I wrote Phil back warning him that cracking the laptop wouldn't be in his best interests since Brackin has correspondence about Phil wanting to get out.

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Wang Guantao
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I've gotten a similar laptop E-mail and told him roughly the same thing. He did write that he needed to know where he was, so that he could get out of there.

I suggested he pretended to crack the laptop (stalling for time, not actually cracking it) while we try and figure where he is.

I also mentioned Alex wanting Adam hurt, and got the "no no he'd never do that" spiel.

So i guess it's time to focus on phil's hiding place?

Mexico sounds reasonable to me, but all middle American countries do. All we have to go on is that there are mountins, and that it was really cold the weekend after thanksgiving. Think we might try to combine some area maps and some weather service info if we can dig it up.

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VioletNightshade
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Temperature maps for 24,25,26/11/06:



Could not quite find one covering Mexico, unfortunately....
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Wang Guantao
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PUZZLE TIME!

PUZZLE TIME!

I've been mailing a bit with Phil, and I told him to stall on cracking Adam's laptop just yet, and he gaves us a new puzzle, I'll post the E-mails below

Wang's E-mail wrote:

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:31 +0100
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That laptop would probably be Adams you realize. You can see the guy in the hat taking it from him in the video you put on YouTube.

Stall on the cracking if you can. Make them think you're progressing it,
while you really aren't.
We'll try to figure out where you are so we can help you.

/Ken

Phil's E-mail wrote:

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:12 +0100
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Damn! How'd I miss that?
If I can't then maybe you can dude...

I'm sending you a copy of something that stands out like a sore thumb on this hard drive.
You see, it took me all night but I finally cracked brackin's encryption. They don't know it
yet though so I'm taking yoru advice and sitting on it for a while. Thing is I'm looking
at literally tens of thousands of files here not including his user generated stuff!
starwars miniatures manager, google earth, many megs of nostradamus crap, 200 mp3 files,
who listens to Hootie and the Blowfish anymore? Point bing that I used a program that
looked for encryption in all the individual files and this is the only one that came up
as different. It was on his desktop instead of in a folder. See what you can make of it.

Attached to the E-mail was a file called Maxine deSauch.dat containing the following:
Maxine deSauch.dat wrote:

Pmxdekp
Adptrnh
Hotpfz
Nqyunn
Hemlqxz
Sv Zqzoqw Ckpxzd
Ua Ihgxwnarb
Wea Dmft
Drawplbonpa


I haven't even attempted these yet as I made this post right after recieving the E-mail, but I figure it might be some form of ROT or Vignere cypher.

Well that gives me something to look at tonight =)

PS. Those are sweet ass weather maps Violet! =D
Shame I don't think they'll be helping us, but if we ever get more clues regarding weather, we have the technology!

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Forgery
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Solved

I think we've found defense corps!!! =D finally solved my 1st code =D

You were right, tis Vignere.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Key is deusexmachina this gives us
Midland
Abilene
Dublin
Norman
Eastman
St Simons Island
St Augustine
Key West
Angelopolis


which fits. Not being from the states I looked where Angelopolis is and interestingly enough it's at both sides of our circle.

On the East side at Anglevillas, Florida, United States and on the West at Ansley Place, Texas, United States which is right on the border of Mexico, my guess at to where he is. Yay for me!! I'll let other people contact Phil, Alex, Foo etc with this info.

I cracked a code!!!! =D not exactly a difficult one lol, but I still did it!! =D

He's gone MADNESS...KA! hehe

Forg

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Wang Guantao
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Pro =)

Angelopolis is also a district in Columbia. I sure hope Phil isn't involved with any drugs

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