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[Zuul]

Nice to be able to ask if the lead is a duck :-)

[keybsnbits]

changes were obviously made somewhere down the line. but are they related to the story at all? I'm really not sure at all.

[cadaverous]

I just join this chat but i got to say there is definitely someone is talking, if you notice it there is a split in the waves so there must be to separate phrases.

[drizjr]

[SPEC] and please don't stop looking.

[troy]

Dana said that as far as she could tell, nothing had been done with the sound files. Now, the character Dana could be fallible, so we shouldn't completely abandon this, but realize that if we don't find something, we shouldn't try to make it something.

A good tactic may be to archive the original sound files and pursue other avenues, monitoring the web site for to the sound files as the game unfolds. So far, md5 hashes on the old and current sound files are identical, and I doubt the PMs would try to manufacture an md5 collission for the sake of confusing us -- way too much work for dubious gain (remember that the PMs want us to progress in the story as much as we do, so they have very little reason to throw us off the scent unless it forwards the story).

-Troy

[drizjr]

V in the piping wav?

[troy]

I've md5'ed several downloaded bees1.wav files and have not seen a difference. Then again, I don't seem to download all of the variety that other people do when I download things, so I could be off.

Neat detective work though.

-Troy

[number8]

The problem with the sound files is that we just don't know if anything is actually there. It will be cool if we can uncover a voice or something from the them, but it's just as likely that there's nothing in there to begin with. Until we can verify its existence, the only thing we can do is speculate ....

Anyway I did a comparison between the files from before the update and after. The soundwave is the same (they cancel each other out if mixed inverted). The file sizes are the same too and so is the hex structure. Looks unaltererd to me.

[keybsnbits]

Re: [SPEC] and please don't stop looking.

[aliendial]

Is everyone satisfied that you have run out all the steg possibilities? I see mentions here of S-tools, but it looks like there's a lot of different possibilities - see this page, for example -

http://tinyurl.com/6rk3o

Granted this approach probably requires a password, but since no one has managed to tease out anything definitive from the sound files despite the general conviction that it sounds like something IS there, is it worth pursuing to at least try to find a steg detector that can read it?


Edit to TinyURL the URL -SpaceBass

[QuestionMark]

Could this be a possible solution?

http://www.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=88E54CB08FAD4FCBDF9C6649F7D42A24

Play that in Windows Media Player at 0.5 speed. What it is, is the recording being played backwards. At 0.5x speed, we think we hear "All the bugs are swarming the planet, Please get me out!" But play around with the speed because we can hear some parts a little better at different speeds. Me and my friend thing that she is refering to the Varrao Mites that look very close to the Flood infection form. However this is all speculation

EDIT: added a link since it seems to want to put a player where I wanted you to get you to download it.

[keybsnbits]

[QuestionMark]

The voicemail might not be in-game, but who said that the message had to be in-game

[firefox]

monitor, from h2

[QuestionMark]

Oh, I thought they ment in-game as in Halo 2 in-game...