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Thunderwolf
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Two more emails in the video (from the letter at 03:47):

zachary.spencerSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk
john.atkinsonSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk

www.feaglobal.co.uk is apparently empty - "Your hosting package is now ready to use!" it proclaims.

I fired off an email to Zach.
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Thunderwolf
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and a reply from Zach:

Zachary Spencer wrote:
ARK_OUTGOING_ Z2VuZXNpczk2

Hi Karl,

Thank God there's more than one of you that got my messages. I still can't believe it worked...

As I said to Russell, I can't talk much at the moment. The leaders noticed a spike in bandwidth on the ARK because of all the data I sent to the website.

I can't be caught doing this. They'll throw me overboard if I am.

Your email gave me so much hope. I can't promise I'll be in touch soon, but please don't give up on me.

We all need you.

Zach

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amandel
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Nice! This still has my attention, also. FWIW: Z2VuZXNpczk2 from base64 is "genesis96" leading to http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/genesis96/

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Thunderwolf
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amandel wrote:
Nice! This still has my attention, also. FWIW: Z2VuZXNpczk2 from base64 is "genesis96".


which leads us to:
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http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/genesis96/


I think there's supposed to be a countdown on that page, but as the javascript file uses the innertext() property to update it, it doesn't render on firefox. You could make the javascript cross-browser compatible by changing the line:

Code:
document.getElementById("counter").innerText = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;


to

Code:

if(document.all){ {
    document.getElementById("counter").innerText = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
}
else {
    document.getElementById("counter").textContent = daysStr + ":" + hoursStr + ":" + minsStr + ":" + secondsStr + ":" + millisecondsStr;
}


But that's a job for the PM Wink
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:07 pm
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natas
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[OFF TOPIC]
ramblings about code

A better solution would be not to use "document.all" ever. It's only used for IE4, and if you use IE4, you need therapy.

document.getElementById("*****").textContent is the W3C standard. On a side note, #($% Microsoft.

ETA:

The countdown renders on firefox perfectly for me as is. I must have misread the above post, thinking that there was an issue rendering on IE. Weird. I know this question will sound condescending, but are you sure you're using FireFox?

EDIT 2:

The bigger concern might be that the HTML is tagged horribly. Most of the html is written outside of the HTML tags, and there is not opening "body" tag. There are two closing "font" tags, but no opening "font" tags. And that's just at first glance. /rambling

EDIT 3:

I guess they got tired of me rambling and changed it. lol.

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Russell
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Lol natas. New email from features global:
Quote:


Thank you for you email.

Following the biological terrorist attack on the UK, FEA Global Biotechnology is not currently operating a UK Office. Our Global Headquarters have subsequently been moved to France.

Our deepest sympathies go out to the families & friends across the world who have lost people in this callous attack.

If your enquiry is urgent, please contact our French Office at franceSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk

Thank you,

Aimee Gill
CEO, FEA Global Biotechnology


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julieaurora
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I got that same email reply. Sent a message to the new address too.

Edit: Got an automated response from franceSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk :



Thanks for you email.


As all emails are currently being directed through this office, we are currently experiencing a huge backlog of emails.


Please allow up to 28 days for a response.


Thanks for your patience.


FEA Global Biotechnology


So, dead-end that for now.

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Russell
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Update with a new email and along piece of code in the source.

Also some binary which decodes to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"NG" with the previous binary this gives us "Chang"


Auto email from declan.youngSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk:

Quote:
EMAIL ACCOUNT TERMINATED FOR


declan.youngSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk


REASON: Account Holder Deceased


Continued persistence of contact will be reported to the authorities.


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julieaurora
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Where did you get the declan.youngSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk address? Don't remember seeing that one.

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Russell
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It's at the bottom of the new image on genesis 96

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battlecat
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Reporting in for the first time in a LONG time...will definitely be keeping an eye on this. Smile

It's good to be back.

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Thunderwolf
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Welcome back Battlecat!

A cursory glance at the long string in the source suggests that it's not base64, or at least it's not text encoded base64. Need to head to work so can't do any further analysis yet.
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julieaurora
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Weird Russel, that page didn't change for me till 7 hours after you posted up earlier. Any luck decoding the source code info? There were like four pages of code. Quickly tried converting it as base64, but no luck there. Will hopefully have time to try more tomorrow.

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Thunderwolf
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One thing I have noticed about the data dump, is that there's a line break a little way in and then a fair amount of repetition in there. Tried converting to various image formats, but no joy there. Again, at work, so probably won't have much time to work on this till later.

ETA: the substring "61696d656567696c6c" appears in the code 10 times. I suspect there are a few more of these repeated substrings, but I don't know what their meaning is, or even if they have any significance.

OK scratch that, because:

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That substring decodes from hex to ascii as: aimeegill. Which gives us http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/aimeegill/

I'm going to try firing off an email to aimee.gillSPLATfeaglobal.co.uk


EDIT2: OK, fired off the email, got the same terrorist attack autoreply, but there was a link at the bottom to Aimee Gill's linedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aimee-gill/96/737/260

I can only see the brief profile though as I don't have a LinkedIn account.
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amandel
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Coffee THX for the latest image. The prompt for the next countdown page can be found there:
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http://donottrustthetesseract.co.uk/18/

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