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Global Security Alliance

**Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 12:57 pm

kosmopol

It looks great, but I think, it is real.
Kind of activist group propaganding New Security Culture.
e.g.: http://info.interactivist.net/node/11051

**Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 1:26 pm

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maybe, but some of that stuff was very extreme, and very theatrical. That main guy in the video is acting,I'm almost positive.

**Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 7:49 pm

BubbleBoy

WhoIs tells me that the site is registered to these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_New_Culture_Technologies

**Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 8:20 pm

kosmopol

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 4:52 am

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That sounds about right to me. But WOW this sure does look like a game! I think it ought to be a game, and the artists who made it would probably LOVE ARGS!

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 10:14 am

Dirt Diver

GSA is real.

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:01 am

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Hi DirtDiver!
What information did you find that tells you it's real? I'd love to see it! I'm still not sure. Here's their logo- I think even the logo screams TINAG. [/img]

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:07 am

natas

Don't know if this helps or adds to the confusion....

Here's a partial WHOIS for GSA.

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:09 am

Dirt Diver

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:17 am

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Interesting. There might be a bunch of different 'security alliances' though. If your job is working with this particular one that would be wild! Smile

Thanks Natas!!!
ok, so we found all this security alliance stuff by doing a google search for the text in the psychemoves site that Anarchotelogy found when it was still up. The psychemoves site is pretty definitely related to xenovaradox, right? Is it possible that the PMs just borrowed this Konrad text, not thinking that we'd find the source (just using it as a sort of lorem ipsum)? Or do you think the text source was MEANT to be found, thus linking the Konrad Becker stuff with Xenovaradox?

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:39 am

BubbleBoy

I think what you are seeing are a bunch of activists "role-playing" (as best as I can describe it), not an ARG. I believe you are simply being thrown a web-site not associated with the game, but associated with the story... if that makes any sense.

OOG, that's my vote.

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 10:21 pm

catherwood

The thing that stands out for me when looking at http://www.global-security-alliance.com/ is that the copyright date on the homepage is 2006, and nothing appears to be any more recent than late 2008.

**Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:29 pm

The Mirror

Yah, I noticed that too. Bummer, huh? It's SO cool!
So the consensus is that Becker is perhaps affiliated with the zenovaradox game but GSA is a separate project of his?

**Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 1:40 am

kosmopol

Or perhaps in another way:
Zenovaradox is a project of GSA? (Since GSA seems to love such viral activities). Perhaps we've just found PMs?..

**Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 3:50 am

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