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kmduke wrote:
Anyone able to get the list of numbers that are spoken from the YouTube video? My german is way rusty, I understand most of them, but there is one that I do not.


I couldn't make out all of them either these are the ones I got with space indicating pauses :
9592 2
210
83 210
83 84 736
84736
3427949294

The website is Swedish (.se) by the way

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The female voice seems to be alternating between French, English, and German in counting the numbers but there's too much background noise for me to hear them all.

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AI/Robot involved? The code at the beginning reminded me of a language, forgot which.

Can we get steno on the picture and get an audio-to-visual of the clip, and the translations of what is said?

EDIT: Numbers mean anything in hex or otherwise?

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Heyo uptates!

main page error log seems to update whenever there is something new. got a new log for today:

Quote:
nov 26-07
#1: Lockdown overridden
#2: files restored [count: 1]


a quick check of the source shows a new page at www.xenomata.com/ntmc_nl_396.html, which looks to be a newsletter that has been heavily corrupted:

Quote:
NTMC NEWSLETTER - #396 - Nov 11, 2005

IN THIS EDITION:

* Zemlya Aleksandry operations discontinued
* CEO Philip Smith steps down
* Theresa Willis appointed new head of R&D

ZA OFFSHORE PROJECT SHUTS DOWN PERMANENTLY
In spite of the commendable efforts of the staff and external subcontractors this past summer, the board has unanimously decided to give up further attempts towards the original goal of restoring normal operations in the ZA facilities.

- "The new methods we were trying to implement earlier this month failed completely", says chief structural engineer Leonard Richards, "mainly because of the fact that the whole plant has been running unattended for almost five years now, without any sort of general maintenance. This alone has made the structures unsafe, and combined with the effects of added damage made by the increasingly malfunctioning automata in the meantime, the entire area is simply extremely dangerous for human workers. We cannot safely send any of our employees in there anymore."

A team of demolition specialists is scheduled to make a final attempt at disabling the main power plant next week. Should this operation be successful, the risk of accidents involving rampant heavy machinery is greatly reduced.

- "Assuming this works out as planned", Richards adds, "there is some hope we might still be able to extract remaining last-generation automata and raw materials before executing the final demolition."

Additional information regarding these operations will be sent out exclusively to ZAI+5-level operatives on Monday.

SMITH TO EXPLORE OTHER VENUES
Following an informal board meeting on October 28, CEO Philip Smith announced his immediate retirement due to health problems. Vice CEO Eleanor Johnson takes the helm temporarily, and a formal vote for an official successor is planned for the upcoming shareholders meeting on
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okay, so we've got some names. googling them now. will update in a sec. also, Shredalot v3.4 is cool.

EDIT: okay, googled some names, found some things.

Zemiya Aleksandry is russian for Alexandra Land, an island in the Franz Josef Archipelago. it's coordinates on a map are very close to those of the satellite imagery on the main page. also, an important meteorological station called Nagurskoye is on the island, and may have served as an air defense radar during the Cold War. wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Land

too many philip smiths to nail anything down for certain, even though he IS a CEO....

Same with Theresa Willis.

sigh. same with Leonard Richards

nothing turns up for "ZAI+5-level operative"

ugh. looks like none of these names lead anywhere. Elanor Johnson is a no-go, as is Yutaka Shimura. however, the fact that Y. Shimura stands on its own makes me think that the name will pop back up again.

well, that's all that i could find for now. i'll update if i find anything else.

EDIT AGAIN: found something.... was reviewing the videos, and googled the video information for the second video, which includes a place and year. turns out that year/place is a five star hotel where a meeting of the Bilderberg Group took place in that same year: http://dajjal.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/the-bilderberg-group/.

this is getting interesting.....

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ZAI+5 apppears to be workers on the island with special clearance.

Hmm...

A hotel, eh? So construction of the hotel may be covering something?

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no, the hotel/meeting of the bilderberg group is an actual place. it's in sweden.

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2nd video

I'm not caught up by any means, but in scanning the thread I didn't see a mention of the second YouTube video. Here's a screenshot.

Title: Xenomata - Transmission 2 - 33 cpm
Description: Snippets from tech demo - Bürgenstock, Nidwalden, Switzerland 1995
Date: November 25, 2007
Tags: electronics environment mechanics xenomata automata xenomata.com
Length: 00:29

EDIT: NEVER MIND, IT WAS TOO MENTIONED, I'M A TARD, THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR SKIPPING LUNCH GAH. Trout
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Just want to poke my head in here and say that NTMC is waaay too close to PTMC for my liking.

(For those of you who know nada about older combat flight sims, PTMC was the Post-Terran Mining Corporation, a massive mining corporation from the Descent series . . . whose primary antagonists were malfunctioning mining robots. Granted, said robots were being controlled by sentient alien nanotechnology, but still . . . Shocked

Also, Xenomata? Sounds like a portmanteau of xeno and automata. Rogue alien robots, anyone?)
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Sounds like it to me

BTW, Macavity you like like 30 miles from me!

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lol i love it when someone trouts themselves. shows a good sense of humor.

I for one think a game based off of Descent material would be great. unfortunately, it looks like we're stuck at the moment.

lets keep goin guys! Very Happy

EDIT: oh wow, i don't know how i missed this.... three five-digit numbers appeared on the mainsite, one each on the three satellite images. aaaaand they each go-in order-in the X: Y: and A: slots on grid4. this is what you get...... http://www.xenomata.com/core/griddata/mkrat/mkratio_draft_11995.gif

the effect is different if you input the numbers themselves, so go ahead and do that. there's a line of comment text identifying the origin of the memo as CEO smith's desk. i'm gonna check the rest of the source code/directories right now, might update again, might not. we're definitely going to need some editing/image improvement on this one. those black bars look like they could be lifted. a steno might be nice too. I'm going to take a couple shots at it in gimp later, but i assume it's going to need some photoshop work.

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morelaak wrote:
we're definitely going to need some editing/image improvement on this one. those black bars look like they could be lifted. a steno might be nice too. I'm going to take a couple shots at it in gimp later, but i assume it's going to need some photoshop work.



No go, the black lines can't be edited out or seen through, at least I can't and my photoshop-fu is pretty strong.

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ah damn. well, we need to at least steno it before we write it off.

so who's gonna take care of that? i'm kind of screwed on that front, no Mac-friendly steno software (someone should really fix that....)

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hi all, i like to be in this one if there is more...

2 things to say:
1) in the source of the page scanit.php after the login was written that the document was
on p.smith desk (the ex CEO) in building one.
2) now the page is gone how you can see, and in the source it tells something about a change of protocol and network.........
i tried the https but nothing......
done a little bit of port scanning and found some socket open but nothing interesting, on more is a hosting server so i don't want to go any further in this kind of invstigation, maybe the owner of the server doesn't like it too much.
by the way, there is an empty anoymous ftp.....

Waiting for the desteg results....

P.S. sorry for the bad english X)

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the homepage changed another time.
now in the source :
Quote:

QBABG NGGRZ CGGBU NPXVA GBGUV FFREIR E.
GURBA YLERN FBAVP BHYQC EBIVQ RNPPR FFGB
AGZPE RPRAG YL,JN FGUEB HTUNC ULFVP NYGNC
FGENV TUGSE BZGUR VEJVE RF.GU VFGNC VF
ABJYB FG.LB HJVYY ABGSV AQNAL GUVAT HFRSHY
URERH AGVYV ZNANT RGBER -RFGN OYVFU GUR
CULFV PNYPB AARPG VBAGB AGZPZ NVASE NZR.

GUVFZ RNAFV UNIRG BIRAG HERBH GFVQR NTNVA.
NAQVG 'FQNZ APBYQ BHGGU RER.


that is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HACK INTO THIS SERVER.
THE ONLY REASON I COULD PROVIDE ACCESS TO
NTMC RECENTLY, WAS THROUGH A PHYSICAL TAP
STRAIGHT FROM THE IR WIRES. THIS TAP IS
NOW LOST.YOU WILL NOT FIND ANY THING USEFUL
HERE UNTIL I MANAGE TO RE-ESTABLISH THE
PHYSICAL CONNECTION TO NTMC MAINFRAME.

THIS MEANS I HAVE TO VENTURE OUTSIDE AGAIN.
AND IT 'S DAMN COLD OUT THERE.


it seems that my scan was seen by someone X)
anyway so i think that now we have to wait further infos....

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as phantomaz said, the main page is gone, replaced with a "signal lost" image, and a title bar stating I N T E R M I S S I O N.

hm. the source code has another weird block of letters:

Code:
QBABG NGGRZ CGGBU NPXVA GBGUV FFREIR E.
GURBA YLERN FBAVP BHYQC EBIVQ RNPPR FFGB
AGZPE RPRAG YL,JN FGUEB HTUNC ULFVP NYGNC
FGENV TUGSE BZGUR VEJVE RF.GU VFGNC VF
ABJYB FG.LB HJVYY ABGSV AQNAL GUVAT HFRSHY
URERH AGVYV ZNANT RGBER -RFGN OYVFU GUR
CULFV PNYPB AARPG VBAGB AGZPZ NVASE NZR.

GUVFZ RNAFV UNIRG BIRAG HERBH GFVQR NTNVA.
NAQVG 'FQNZ APBYQ BHGGU RER.


okay, this is definitely a message of some kind. so who's good at crypto? i 'm gonna take a shot at it, but i'm not promising anything Smile .

EDIT: oh wow, it looks like the PM took down everything. I'm getting the feeling we're gonna have to solve this puzzle before we can advance.

EDIT EDIT: Ignore my shit, people are smarter than me Very Happy .

EDIT FOR COMPLETE IDIOCY: Oh come ON, it was ROT-13? i could have sworn i had already tried that. damn Bang Head

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phantomaz wrote:
hi all, i like to be in this one if there is more...

2 things to say:
1) in the source of the page scanit.php after the login was written that the document was
on p.smith desk (the ex CEO) in building one.
2) now the page is gone how you can see, and in the source it tells something about a change of protocol and network.........
i tried the https but nothing......
done a little bit of port scanning and found some socket open but nothing interesting, on more is a hosting server so i don't want to go any further in this kind of invstigation, maybe the owner of the server doesn't like it too much.
by the way, there is an empty anoymous ftp.....

Waiting for the desteg results....

P.S. sorry for the bad english X)

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the homepage changed another time.
now in the source :
Quote:

QBABG NGGRZ CGGBU NPXVA GBGUV FFREIR E.
GURBA YLERN FBAVP BHYQC EBIVQ RNPPR FFGB
AGZPE RPRAG YL,JN FGUEB HTUNC ULFVP NYGNC
FGENV TUGSE BZGUR VEJVE RF.GU VFGNC VF
ABJYB FG.LB HJVYY ABGSV AQNAL GUVAT HFRSHY
URERH AGVYV ZNANT RGBER -RFGN OYVFU GUR
CULFV PNYPB AARPG VBAGB AGZPZ NVASE NZR.

GUVFZ RNAFV UNIRG BIRAG HERBH GFVQR NTNVA.
NAQVG 'FQNZ APBYQ BHGGU RER.


that is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HACK INTO THIS SERVER.
THE ONLY REASON I COULD PROVIDE ACCESS TO
NTMC RECENTLY, WAS THROUGH A PHYSICAL TAP
STRAIGHT FROM THE IR WIRES. THIS TAP IS
NOW LOST.YOU WILL NOT FIND ANY THING USEFUL
HERE UNTIL I MANAGE TO RE-ESTABLISH THE
PHYSICAL CONNECTION TO NTMC MAINFRAME.

THIS MEANS I HAVE TO VENTURE OUTSIDE AGAIN.
AND IT 'S DAMN COLD OUT THERE.


it seems that my scan was seen by someone X)
anyway so i think that now we have to wait further infos....


does your decipher method work for the previously unsolved code?
Code:
SVSGR RAZRZ OREFB SQRZB YVGVB AGRNZ YBFGB AFHOY
RIRYG JBABE GUBSN HKVYV NELOH VYQVA TNAVA RERAQ


EDIT nevermind, I got it
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I am now controlling your motor skills. Obey my will. Do not try to fight it, embrace the change. Repeat after me.
I am now controlling your motor skills. Obey my will. Do not try to fight it, embrace the change. Repeat after me.


EDIT AGAIN:That cypher solution is wrong, its a stored variable in LeetKey, that doesnt actually help us

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