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Mysterious USB drive (GKNOVA6)
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Reiveth
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 		Eve Reign(the poster) ,Cheeping River, and Cheering Viper are anagrams for vigenere and vigenere cipher.
I'm looking all over for a key.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:01 pm
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Reiveth
Boot


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 		The vigenere is to throw us off, the quote is from thirty years war, Count Gronsfeld commanded the League on the Lower Rhine in Westphalia.
Gronsfeld is also a type of cipher, related to vigenere, that uses numbers instead of letters.

I bet the key is 1969.

Edit: bah that was the answer to the code to FIND the site... god I can figure things out but in the wrong order!

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:43 pm
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MrToasty
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 		Got it!
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Key is sputnik
THREEEIGHT.NINEFIVEONESEVENNINESIX -SEVENSEVEN.ONEFOURSIXFIVEEIGHTSIX

THREEEIGHT.SEVENFOURFOURTWOEIGHTONE, -ONEZEROFOUR.EIGHTFOURSIXEIGHTZEROSIX

THREETWO.NINEFOURTHREEEIGHTEIGHTNINE, -ONEZEROSIX.FOURONENINEFOURFOURFOUR

THREEEIGHT.EIGHTNINESEVENSIXSEVEN, -SEVENSEVEN.ZEROTHREESIXFIVEFIVE

FIVEFIVE.SEVENFIVEONESIXSIXSEVEN, THREESEVEN.SIXONESEVENSEVENSEVENEIGHT


PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:57 pm
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CPO Schwartz
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MrToasty wrote:
Got it!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Key is sputnik
THREEEIGHT.NINEFIVEONESEVENNINESIX -SEVENSEVEN.ONEFOURSIXFIVEEIGHTSIX

THREEEIGHT.SEVENFOURFOURTWOEIGHTONE, -ONEZEROFOUR.EIGHTFOURSIXEIGHTZEROSIX

THREETWO.NINEFOURTHREEEIGHTEIGHTNINE, -ONEZEROSIX.FOURONENINEFOURFOURFOUR

THREEEIGHT.EIGHTNINESEVENSIXSEVEN, -SEVENSEVEN.ZEROTHREESIXFIVEFIVE

FIVEFIVE.SEVENFIVEONESIXSIXSEVEN, THREESEVEN.SIXONESEVENSEVENSEVENEIGHT



How the heck did you get that lol.

it's def latitude and longitudes

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:01 pm
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Reiveth
Boot


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MrToasty wrote:
Got it!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Key is sputnik
THREEEIGHT.NINEFIVEONESEVENNINESIX -SEVENSEVEN.ONEFOURSIXFIVEEIGHTSIX

THREEEIGHT.SEVENFOURFOURTWOEIGHTONE, -ONEZEROFOUR.EIGHTFOURSIXEIGHTZEROSIX

THREETWO.NINEFOURTHREEEIGHTEIGHTNINE, -ONEZEROSIX.FOURONENINEFOURFOURFOUR

THREEEIGHT.EIGHTNINESEVENSIXSEVEN, -SEVENSEVEN.ZEROTHREESIXFIVEFIVE

FIVEFIVE.SEVENFIVEONESIXSIXSEVEN, THREESEVEN.SIXONESEVENSEVENSEVENEIGHT


Numbered for convinience:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
38.951796 - 77.146586

38.744281, - 104.846806

32.943889, - 106.419444

38.89767, - 77.03655

55.751667, 37. 617778


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MrToasty
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 		First is CIA headquarters
second is NORAD
third is White Sands
fourth is the White House
fifth is the Kremlin

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:05 pm
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CPO Schwartz
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 		Well that was fun.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:11 pm
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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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CPO Schwartz wrote:
How the heck did you get that lol.

I assumed that the coordinates would be in the US and likely near Maryland. so I set out to brute force the key in order to decrypt number words - in this case I started by trying to make 'three' as Maryland's latitude is in the upper thirties. After getting 'THREE' out it became obvious to try 'sputnik' as the keyword.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:15 pm
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Yamato
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 		interesting that the CIA headquarters are right next door to "bethesda", and is also in maryland, from where the USB was sent...

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:17 pm
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enaxor
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 		Great solve, Mr. Toasty! And nice backsolve there Reiveth, with the Gronsfeld clue they gave us.
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MrToasty
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enaxor wrote:
And nice backsolve there Reiveth, with the Gronsfeld clue they gave us.

Nice indeed - guess it pays to use all of the clues at hand. Wink

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:33 pm
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NickButler
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 		Just had a minor find, nothing huge. Earlier, I saw a referrer to MovieViral.com but blew it off as a college website in Southern Maryland. But reviewing the referrers (websites that link to my site) AFTER we broke the code, I was surprised to find this:

http://help.somd.com/admin/main.php?action=view_ticket&id=55719-7009040544

I saw this BEFORE we even had the newest transmission, so my guess is the marketing agency contact the site before hand to make sure they could use the site to post a code. I'm thinking they linked to the article where I compared the possible games this could be, to sum up what they were doing. Again, nothing huge, but noteworthy.

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Reiveth
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MrToasty wrote:
enaxor wrote:
And nice backsolve there Reiveth, with the Gronsfeld clue they gave us.

Nice indeed - guess it pays to use all of the clues at hand. Wink

Aww, thanks for the encouragement.

Anyway in my continued attempt to archive the ARG I have recorded the second video in full quality like the first.

Now I'm going to go back and obtain the original clues and audio to document them as well.

If anyone wants to contribute I do need images of all the locations from the coordinates, some quick screencaps from google maps with satellite view would be perfect.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:26 pm
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osmiless
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 		well...... that must be hard for cut
hello everyboddy i 'm new in unfiction
nice to meet you all Razz Smile

PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:33 am
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Angelus78
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osmiless wrote:
well...... that must be hard for cut
hello everyboddy i 'm new in unfiction
nice to meet you all Razz Smile


Welcome Osmiless to the world of tomorrow!!!! I mean Unfiction Very Happy

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