Graham ([info]tao_) wrote,
@ 2007-02-06 19:44:00
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What the hell is this?
Can anyone figure it out? I have a feeling it's not a viral, coming as it does from Dundalk (sorry, Dundalk).

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[info]nearside
2007-02-06 08:10 pm UTC (link)
The basic whois.com look up reveals (phone numbers and emails edited out, but available)

Domain ID:D119022266-LROR
Domain Name:WECANREBUILDHIM.ORG
Created On:23-Mar-2006 09:20:01 UTC
Last Updated On:23-May-2006 04:28:30 UTC
Expiration Date:23-Mar-2007 09:20:01 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:8A3F8C569894AE2F
Registrant Name:Dangermaus Media
Registrant Street1:Clontarf
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Dublin
Admin Name:Dangermaus Media
Admin Street1:Clontarf
Admin City:Dublin
Admin State/Province:NO
Admin Postal Code:none
Admin Country:IE

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Another clue...
[info]nearside
2007-02-06 08:11 pm UTC (link)
http://dangermaus.com/index.php

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[info]tao_
2007-02-07 02:37 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for that. The word 'media' immediately makes me lose interest.

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[info]faithlesswonder
2007-02-06 09:00 pm UTC (link)
maybe it's a mashup of 'war of the worlds' and 'the six million dollar man?'

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-09 12:08 pm UTC (link)
It's a tie-in to a long gone Mr. Dundalk comic strip from the Dangermaus site.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-12 03:40 pm UTC (link)
It has nothing to do with the Mr. Dundalk comic. I think it's a puzzle or something. I can't figure it out.

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Updated 10/02/07
(Anonymous)
2007-02-12 04:39 pm UTC (link)
The page updated on Saturday! The new text now reads:

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10/02/2007

We've been hiding in an industrial complex on the Dublin Road... 3 months now. I know you tried to get it touch with us around Christmas, it was too dangerous.

We're sorry about Daniel. He was a good man. We shouldn't dwell, now is a time of action.

I'm risking all our lives by uploading this file [[links to 001.mp3]]. Find a man called Silvio Meier in Zurich, he created the encoder. You need to find him before it's too late.

We can't trust anyone else now.
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So it looks like it's still active, at least. ARG rabbit hole?

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OK, more
(Anonymous)
2007-02-12 04:55 pm UTC (link)
The linked mp3 file is a computer-generated reading of a series of numbers.

As per the website text, Googling "Silvio Meier Zurich" brings us to the following page, which includes a Java-based number-to-speech converter:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/rerg/people/assitant_1/silvio_meier/sources_code/alphanumeric_to_numeric_encoding/

Plugging in the numbers from the mp3 file and converting to alphanumeric gives us the following string:



(warning, spoiler ahead)


















FAUSTCONOR AT GMAIL DOT COM




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(Anonymous)
2007-02-12 06:24 pm UTC (link)
Dundalk forgives you

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-12 08:13 pm UTC (link)
Interesting puzzle. Anyone tried emailing the address?

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-13 12:09 pm UTC (link)
Emailed that address asking what is going on and I recieved 2 replies.

one says :
You were right to trust Meier. People have called him a ruthless
mathematician, but he's like a brother to me. Zurich is still on the radar,
as far as we are concerned. We cannot lose Dundalk to these things.

and another says:
What can you tell me about the physics of space travel?

weird. Anyone worked this out yet?

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Site updated again
(Anonymous)
2007-02-14 02:43 am UTC (link)
Site updated again: a paranoid message, a Steinbeck quote and a code.

If anyone's interested, we're discussing it over on Unfiction - a kind of clearing-house for anything ARG-related.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18271

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