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[boredJonathan]

I was playing through the demo on the OXM disc and one of the emails had the website of littlechiquita.com and wondering if UbiSoft had learned from their mistakes with Rainbow Six 3 I went ahead and checked it out. Back then the site had a little image of a banna that had "March 1st" written on it. I checked back today and it is updated with a new image and in the source code I found this -

<!-- Message as follows:
		MJCRC BCORO YEXIW VDFGU NNTHA KDQDP JGOHR VYDBN FZBLO NOQSV
		LPXQG MMPNU QOPUL XGLSJ ZUHPC RAJEY BKAOQ IGWXC CESIH ASQNB
		SAQVM BWTYU HKORV OJXPM BUKJX KRIXL WUVRJ HYXOO LPNUP LRNLZ
		BGCED YGEHC MDUCM VIQNR TZZSP BBXJV ZHXRH ALRMB BJUOE RAAGY
		YJIIP SOXYJ LSVND EGNJK NNACM OJKKL FMQNY RDRWO IVWUW EOQQG
		RPQEK QRAQF CIZKZ TZVGQ HEBCP ODIPP XZLPT UYWZZ FSLWW SQBYJ
		YPYXK TBHUQ XKXKJ XWXGW WLGZI UVVCQ WOBLS HYEIP
-->

The image is this -

I suck at these kinds of games, but the best I could do was take the new image on the site and blow it up in Photoshop to read what website the monitor was showing. It looks like it says Surviving the Apocalypse, which Google just comes up with a holding page for a registered domain name. (Checked the source code there and everything seems legit.)

Anyone else find out about this? Anyone care?

 

[Drakken]

Hmm....interesting. I like these kinds of things, but I'm not great at figuring anything out.

 

[Father_Brain]

Those thumbtacks on the bulletin board definitely form some kind of pattern. They look like they could be overlaid onto a map of North America, although I have no clue what that would mean.

 

[FoneBone]

It looks like it says Surviving the Apocalypse, which Google just comes up with a holding page for a registered domain name. (Checked the source code there and everything seems legit.)

Anyone else find out about this? Anyone care?

It's Surfing the Apocalypse.

 

[Gek54]

Something to do with dinosaurs and nuclear outbrake.

 

[boredJonathan]

The site listed was indeed Surfing the Apocalypse, and today the image on the site has updated to include the monitor changing over to read "GG" in big letters and the bulletin board has some notes on it now, along with a book on the desk.

I've check the normal ARG sites that I thought would be following this and nothing.

Weird. Anyone else make any progress?

 

[Eric P]

well they certainly aren't hiding it :lol:


domain: LITTLECHIQUITA.COM
owner-address: UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT
owner-address: 28 Rue Armand Carrel
owner-address: 93108
owner-address: Montreuil Sous Bois
owner-address: France
owner-phone: +33.148185000
owner-e-mail: Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
admin-c: USE1-GANDI
tech-c: USE1-GANDI
bill-c: USE1-GANDI
nserver: NIC1.UBISOFT.COM 216.98.52.5
nserver: NIC2.UBISOFT.COM 216.98.52.6
reg_created: 2004-12-06 09:57:51
expires: 2005-12-06 09:57:51
created: 2004-12-06 15:57:52
changed: 2005-02-16 19:37:11

person: UbiSoft Entertainment
nic-hdl: USE1-GANDI
address: UbiSoft Entertainment
address: 28 RUE ARMAND CARREL
address: 93100
address: MONTREUIL
address: France
phone: +33.148185000
fax: +33.148185973

appears to be a new image up with some additional cyphers on the corkboard.

Unfortunately, I can't find my algorithm sourcebook so I would have to crack this open manually. and seeing how I was at work for 13 hours today i don't feel up to it right now. Maybe tomorrow.

However, a new image has been posted

And if you follow the link as of 19:47 3/2/5 the monitor is covered in what look like post it notes.

The room itself the "loom room" looks like a co/location or server room.

Surfing the apocalypse doesn't really seem to be part of the game as a whois points to this:

Registrant:
Durbin, Theresa (SURFINGTHEAPOCALYPSE-DOM)
P.O.Box 6345
Tulsa, OK 74148
US

Domain Name: SURFINGTHEAPOCALYPSE.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Durbin, Theresa (30759522I) Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
P.O.Box 6345
Tulsa, OK 74148
US
(918) 582-3012 fax: 999 999 9999

Record expires on 01-Feb-2006.
Record created on 01-Feb-2000.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.ADDR.COM 209.249.147.233
NS2.ADDR.COM 209.249.147.237

and a quick peek at the code doesn't really show anything that peaked my interest (though I will admit to just skimming it).

The real meat and potatoes is in the code block that was originally posted by Red.


BTW, the book is the new massmarket edition of The Cryptonomicon (which by bizzare coincidence I was about to start reading for the 4th time). The code above can be broken most likely by following the same algo that one of the lead characters does when he's indoctrinated into the newly founded cryptography course after the attack on pearl harbor.

Ok, a quick peek around my room tells me that i've most likely loaned this book out again.

If anyone has this book, they'll most likely be able to tell us what the code is by following the characters example.

I THINK it's just a simple letter swap a = z, b = y right on down the alphabet.

-Eric P

edit: i was wrong because i just tried the swap out like i described in my last sentence and got gibberish