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[LOCKED] [NEW] IRC Transcript -- Credible?
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BrianEnigma
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 		[NEW] IRC Transcript -- Credible?
This just occurred in #matrix. The credibility seems a little low, considering during the last IRC "visit" a pretty big clue was dropped.
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Recorded 12:58pm, Pacific, on 2003-10-11:

   -->   caesar (d1998e31@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has joined #matrix
   <the_one>   Well actually...
   -->   texel (d1c11de0@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has joined #matrix
   -->   aurelius (SpiritNet@3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br) has joined #matrix
   -->   aurora (524518cb@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has joined #matrix
   <Dyslxic3>   whoa
   <caesar>   Heh.
   <aurora>   hey caesar
   <aurora>   first to the spot again
   <caesar>   First to the spot.
   <caesar>   Roll call.
   <texel>   texel is here
   <aurelius>   64
   <absolut>   wtf?
   <caesar>   I don't think the people who are tracking our actions are even close.
   <Dyslxic3>   quiet.
   <m0nk>   roger that
   <texel>   this seems like a good spot caesar, wher'd you find this one?
   <caesar>   The stegging on the archives is unbeatable.
   *   BrianEnigma looks around skeptically
   <caesar>   texel: have you talked to beth lately?
   <aurora>   nice, quiet here
   *   Dyslxic3 leaves doubt for later
   -->   sever (SpiritNet@3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br) has joined #matrix
   <--   sp3culum has quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds)
   *   m0nk peels off his eyebrows
   -->   Styles (lurker@29773c92.2b24ce30.home.cgocable.net) has joined #matrix
   <texel>   has she responded with her report on yesterday?
   <caesar>   Sever: late as always, haha.
   <caesar>   texel: nope, we'll just have to wait.
   <aurora>   was waiting for the pizza ;)
   <--   sever has quit (Client exited)
   <Styles>   uh
   <absolut>   cairo plans on?
   -->   einstein (SpiritNet@3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br) has joined #matrix
   -->   name (Flyer@89a6ad6.189efabc.pr.erau.edu) has joined #matrix
   <caesar>   have you seen what she did with her account on Aftwork?
   *   m0nk thinks it's a chan take-over
   <name>   any news?
   <texel>   checking now
   <texel>   hrm, activity picking up. caesar, how secure are we here?
   <caesar>   uh.. as secure as we need ;)
   *   moatie says whats the vector victor
   <caesar>   hey name, have you seen the database?
   <aurora>   how's the wind today?
   <caesar>   http://www.jakoinc.com/innovations/poultry.htm
   <m0nk>   stinky
   <einstein>   the wind is southerly.
   <texel>   what is keeping the others?
   <caesar>   einstein: surely you jest.
   <aurora>   ah good
   <caesar>   texel: you don't think they got caught up by the NFA?
   <aurora>   i am but mad north by northwest
   <name>   cool I wanna puiltry processor
   <aurora>   but when the wind is southerly
   <aurora>   i know a hawk from a handsaw
   <caesar>   poultry is the solution
   <name>   poultry even
   *   moatie says cluck
   <caesar>   the new users haven't realized it yet.
   <texel>   64 was mentioning extra heat
   <aurelius>   only through cunningham
   <aurora>   i told him to upgrade the firewall, texel
   <m0nk>   i got some heat for ya
   <einstein>   yes, cunningham.
   <caesar>   heh! did you see 64's hair at the meet & greet last night?
   <caesar>   yikes! :)
   <texel>   lol
   <aurelius>   :P
   <m0nk>   hey, we got a little pool goin...i got $5 that says beth took a shot to the cafe last night, yeah?
   *   Styles likes hair
   <texel>   whens the backup meet again?
   <m0nk>   err
   <m0nk>   face
   <caesar>   texel
   <caesar>   I'm detecting some interference
   <texel>   i know i know... i've got a crap memory, and I hate keeping records...
   <aurora>   are you sure this is secure?
   <p33r>   wtf?
   <caesar>   perhaps we should move to the secure irc server..
   <p33r>   whats up with this?
   <p33r>   anyone?
   <Styles>   shut up
   <texel>   secure? i thought you said this was secure.
   <aurelius>   the cheshire is coming
   <aurora>   caesar - rigel?
   <--   aurelius (SpiritNet@3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br) has left #matrix
   <texel>   i'm getting activity. 1 hr other location.
   <caesar>   texel: firewall assured me
   <caesar>   he's usually trustworthy
   <--   texel (d1c11de0@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has left #matrix (run. )
   <aurora>   texel, message understood
   <einstein>   80 N 16 W, new coordinates.
   <caesar>   I think we're being tracked
   -->   MosServ (aolisevil@f8171.3a15f1cd.mrt.starband.net) has joined #matrix
   <caesar>   meet in one hour on aquapolis
   <--   aurora (524518cb@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has left #matrix (matrix are you the hawk, or the handsaw?)
   <einstein>   understood.
   <--   caesar (d1998e31@3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com) has left #matrix (et tu?)
   <--   einstein has quit (Quit: SpiritNET(R) - BadSpirit Corporation(C) 1987 Inc (EOF))


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Giskard
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 		Aww... come on, this can't be real, can it? It's just too much "in your face", right?

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persephone
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 		ummm...sounds like exactly taken out of M1...really cool, though

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niobexrev
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 		Come on, I did a good job of posing as Beth at one of the Paintover Comments pages and everyone believed me. Not that hard to do.
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 		uhhh, noone believes anything at the paintover comments, don't know what kinda crack you smoking.

this irc thing is kinda doubtful, but they did use that method before...

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 		I tried doing a /WHOWAS on all the guys who came in, turned up nothing much, except that "Aurelius" didn't give any info, so I did a /WHOIS instead, which gave me:

Quote:

_____________________________________________
| aurelius (SpiritNetSPLAT3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br)
| name : marcus
| chan : @#badspirit
| serv : meteor.de.eu.hub.chat-solutions.org
| idle : 14mins 33secs (signed on Sat Oct 11 21:39:28 2003)
ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ


After I pasted this in #matrix, he was immediately gone, from the channel as well as the server.

Anyone know what #badspirit is? Sounds like bad news to me...

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Anonymous wrote:
uhhh, noone believes anything at the paintover comments, don't know what kinda crack you smoking.

this irc thing is kinda doubtful, but they did use that method before...


How about changing your sentence to, "No one believes anything at paintover comments, ANYMORE." Probably because people like me and others posed as Meta characters and people figured it out.

Now, I'll just get back to tokin' it up if you don't mind.
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 		I strongly suspect that badspirit is some other form of IRC interface.

AnthraX101

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BrianEnigma
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Giskard wrote:
I tried doing a /WHOWAS on all the guys who came in, turned up nothing much, except that "Aurelius" didn't give any info, so I did a /WHOIS instead, which gave me:

Quote:

_____________________________________________
| aurelius (SpiritNetSPLAT3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br)
| name : marcus
| chan : @#badspirit
| serv : meteor.de.eu.hub.chat-solutions.org
| idle : 14mins 33secs (signed on Sat Oct 11 21:39:28 2003)
ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ


After I pasted this in #matrix, he was immediately gone, from the channel as well as the server.

Anyone know what #badspirit is? Sounds like bad news to me...


"Einstein" had something about that in his/her exit string:
<-- einstein has quit (Quit: SpiritNET(R) - BadSpirit Corporation(C) 1987 Inc (EOF))

I did a couple of cursory searches for web pages with various combinations, but did not find anything. I would assume if somebody found a site like badspiritcorp.net with a valid Underscore Hosting image, it might help corroborate the validity of the event.

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Giskard
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I strongly suspect that badspirit is some other form of IRC interface.


@#badspirit means that the guy was in the IRC channel #badspirit at the time I did the WHOIS (and that he had ops).

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peter_magenheimer
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 		I've got the (whatever these are, hostnames?) for everyone... (in order of appearance on the channel)

caesar (d1998e31SPLAT3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com)
texel (d1c11de0SPLAT3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com)
aurelius (SpiritNetSPLAT3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br)
aurora (524518cbSPLAT3fd056b1.f4f1334.marzconsulting.com)
sever (SpiritNetSPLAT3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br)
einstein (SpiritNetSPLAT3223f75b.354f3b3c.spirit.nom.br)

aurelius, sever, and einstein are obviously the same person... or IP address, at least.

I'm curious about caesar, texel, and aurora though, because the second part (after the @) is the same for all three, but the first parts are different...

Is there anyone who understands these addresses better, and can tell us what they mean?

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 		http://www.marzconsulting.com/

Fake!?

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9999 wrote:
http://www.marzconsulting.com/

Fake!?


I don't know what you're asking. Is it fake as in part of the fictional websites of Metacortex, therefore part of the game? Well, I don't see a USH logo, sooooo....

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 		IIRC, the first caesar came from a completely different host (like Comcast or something like that).

To me it looks like someone pretty much did a cut'n'paste during the first part of the conversation to imitate their styles, then messed with some heads.

Not credible to me at all. I feel that any IRC interaction would come in the form of obvious pointers (ie - a link to a website/directory/etc.), because I would view it as a last resort, and not a normal in-game interaction.
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 		i greatly doubt that either irc posts from caeser and co. are real. anyone can come on and say they are caeser. they seem to me to be just a group of 12 year olds starving for attention. maybe their moms didn't love them enough. i don't know.

just because they dropped a clue first time around dosen't mean anything. say me (and of course, my merry little band of "1337 hax0rz") happen to figure out a new lead. any one of us could go, drop the hint, and get instant crediblity. then whenever we have a lead that we are too lazy to investigate, we just drop a hint, and everyone scrambles to figure it out like they are our own personal troop of flying monkeys.

incidentally, marzconsulting. its hosted by Covad Communications NETBLK-COVAD-IP-4-NET. everything related to the game so far is hosted by ServerBeach SERVER-ALLOC-1. fishy. yes.
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