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if it is B166ER, that would be hella dumb...for the reasons said above, the simple hackers would know more about the history of the matrix than the main characters in the matrix trilogy...I really hope they havnt used the robot, if they have, and they read this..they'll be like "shit yeah thats a good point, we shouldnt have used him" lol

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:33 pm

Marauder · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 123

Re: You and Caesar

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:54 pm

XtRaVa

You wouldnt normally see a gal saying something like "i guess the tribe has fucking spoken" but then again, u wudnt really see many women being a-class hackers...but trinity is. But IMO its deffo a guy.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:01 pm

WedgeGold

Darn

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:45 am

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Yes...yes we are lol Razz

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:32 am

[TrIpLe] · Boot Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

Another thing about Edgar Allen Poe is his story, Gold-bug, it "remains unequaled as a work of fiction turning upon a secret message."

Poe also had an interest in cryptography and believed that deciphering messages was simply an application of reason and logic and in December 1839 he challenged anyone that he could solve any simple subsititution cipher that the readers of Alexander's Weekly Messenger sent in to him.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:15 am

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Semioclast · Boot Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:37 am

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LokiNZ · Greenhorn Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 6

So far the best solution to the girl/skeleton image I've seen is the Dead Alice = Daedalus suggestion that was made some time back in this thread. If it really is a skeleton in the background (and I'm still not completely convinced as the front of the skull should be clearer than it is), then it would fit - the two images are merged together - hence the merging together of the two words in Daedalus.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to house the Minotaur. As we know there are references to a Labyrinth project being worked on at Metacortechs. I would speculate that James Avery is Daedalus - the original architect of the Labyrinth project. If he's the missing person on heismissing.info (a pic hosted by paintover.net), then perhaps caesar is his son.

I think the STOL part of the image most likely refers to the "Small to Large" suggestion made earlier, since that phrase "Always to have lesssons to learn" comes from the fourth chapter of Alice in Wonderland, in which Alice has drunk from a bottle found in the White Rabbit's home and has grown almost too large to fit inside the house.

I think we're still stuck on where we could use any of these clues. Unlike the other paintover pics there is no clear indication of which site to look at. That could mean that we only need to look at the paintover.net site. Or it could mean we don't look for hidden directories on other sites.

If this is the introductory/invitational message to the hackers from caesar, wouldn't it be especially useful if it led to a login on USH? This is the one common thread for all these sites - if you had a master login to USH you could create hidden directories on any of the other sites without the owners knowing. Hmmm... just a thought.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:50 pm

Azathoth666

I think I like where you're going with this Loki... it introduces another degree of separation between the hacker characters the metacortex characters, but I think I like it. That would make Caesar or Scratch a sysadmin at _ rather than a Metacortex employee, and it makes sense that someone from a company 'cortex is partnering with would be more concerned about what 'cotex is doing that and actual 'cortex employee.

Thats a whole lotta cortexes... Very Happy

**Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:58 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Well...we tried the login screen at Underscore. This was done before the game even launched, actually. There's a specific code that the password/username combo uses... and only certain combinations of characters would be accepted. Someone on TLFC (Matrix forum) wrote a brute force program to get the password (don't yell at me, this was before we even knew it was a game)...oh, I should maybe include spoiler tags here for those who don't want to know what was found by this method of pure fiery evilness:

**Posted:** Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:17 am

yeahyeah · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 282

well, just to add some wild speculation, while I was out at a bar watching comedians on an open mic night, I realized (duh, probably been said before) that the oct 1st photo showed up before the hackers started using directories, back then they were pointing towards ftp sites at least on the aquapolis hints.. speculation over..

**Posted:** Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:13 am

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[TrIpLe] · Boot Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 22

Hmm......just now I found another link to Edgar Allan Poe. On the paintover.net HTML source, you find the following:

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**Posted:** Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:55 am

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**Posted:** Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:37 pm

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