ArmA 2 site hacked

[Capt. Sand 10]

You're right, 7, 0 and also 4 (for A) have not been used, even when it could have been possible. Though they do use 1 in their name (p3r51an 8lacK Hat5 8oy5), which takes us to 1, 3, 5 and 8.

Could those numbers be significant?

1538. make no mistake, there... will... be... fireworks.

[derdoe 10]

which takes us to 1, 3, 5 and 8.

Could those numbers be significant?

Seems to be a simple mathematical sequence: 1,3,5,8,11,14,17 etc.. or 1,3,5,8,13,21,34,...

[maddogx 13]

Has anyone tried inputting some of our new data into the arma.com/bin/null/thecode link, like we did with miller?

Perhaps there are more "codes" that will fit? Unfortunately I can't try it myself at the moment due to a filter. :o

"greece" would be worth a try. All the hints in the last puzzle pointed toward it.

[LukasCZ 10]

Is it me or is the only 1337 letters used 3,5, and 8? and constantly?

Why not 7 and 0?

Also in r3dp3ga5u5... only 3 and 5, not 4...

[Daniel 0]

Has anyone tried inputting some of our new data into the arma.com/bin/null/thecode link, like we did with miller?

Perhaps there are more "codes" that will fit? Unfortunately I can't try it myself at the moment due to a filter. :o

"greece" would be worth a try. All the hints in the last puzzle pointed toward it.

Yeah, nothing on that. Tried a few others too. I don't think they're using the same system twice, see the effort they've gone to using a different file hosting site each time. I didn't know there were that many.

[derdoe 10]

Ok guys i found something:

Real World Map:

Latitude 33, Longitude 55 (from Red Pegasus) leads to the center of Iran.

http://www.mapquest.de/mq/maps/latlong.do?pageId=latlong&latLongType=decimal&txtLatitude=33&txtLongitude=55

Latitude 35.1, Longitude 85.5 (from P8H8) leads to center of China.

http://www.mapquest.de/mq/maps/latlong.do?pageId=latlong&latLongType=decimal&txtLatitude=35.1&txtLongitude=85.5

Does this mean anything?

Edited May 10, 2011 by derdoe
Mixed up Longitude and Latitude

[ArmAriffic 10]

Ok guys i found something:

Real World Map:

Longitude 33, Latitude 55 (from Red Pegasus) leads to the center of Iran.

http://www.mapquest.de/mq/maps/latlong.do?pageId=latlong&latLongType=decimal&txtLatitude=33&txtLongitude=55

Longitude 35.1, Latitude 85.5 (from P8H8) leads to center of China.

http://www.mapquest.de/mq/maps/latlong.do?pageId=latlong&latLongType=decimal&txtLatitude=35.1&txtLongitude=85.5

Does this mean anything?

I can understand 33, 55 because Persia = Iran

And China were mentioned in the PMC campaign

Edited May 10, 2011 by ArmAriffic

[Daniel 0]

Yep, that looks all too coincidental. Could have been anywhere on the planet and those numbers lead to the only two countries considered to be upcoming enemies.

http://armaenigma.com/index.php?title=China

Good thinking derdoe!

[bobocz 10]

As somebody mention AAN news is silent from Saturday hack and not commenting since then. So Suppose AAN is "somehow" connected with hackers, know their plans. If they have connection to them, they could make interview with PBHB, ask them why they do it? Reason wasn't clearly mentioned in their messages (as what I know). Hackers or terorist like publicity ;). Because I'm lost now, their hints doesn't make sense any more. :confused::)

[Daniel 0]

Because I'm lost now, their hints doesn't make sense any more. :confused::)

Look three posts up, I think we might have just solved a hint. :p

33 55 Iran

35.1 85.5 China

Edited May 10, 2011 by Daniel

[Muahaha 10]

+1 ^

It's seems to be quite random now, which doesn't link up. We have the map, the submarine silhouette, the miller picture, the ball smashing into a wall, and now these.

[bobocz 10]

Look three posts up, I think we might have just solved a hint. :p

33 55 Iran

35.1 85.5 China

Maybe, but how is this connected with Saturday or Monday hack? No connections, I don't see them! Hackers are right "stop fool", "think different" , but how? :)

[maddogx 13]

Nice work on the coordinates.

Still, the whole "Greece" angle is unexplained. We got:

- a text file with the name of a Greek plant.

- an MP3 audio file with the Greek motto.

- an SVG drawing with the number 1821, the year the Greek war of independence began.

- GIF image of a statue of Hephaestus, a Greek god.

- JPEG of a slow worm indigenous to Greece.

- A PNG of a shoe of the Greek royal guards.

Greece, anybody?

[bobocz 10]

Nice work on the coordinates.

Still, the whole "Greece" angle is unexplained. We got:

- a text file with the name of a Greek plant.

- an MP3 audio file with the Greek motto.

- an SVG drawing with the number 1821, the year the Greek war of independence began.

- GIF image of a statue of Hephaestus, a Greek god.

- JPEG of a slow worm indigenous to Greece.

- A PNG of a shoe of the Greek royal guards.

Greece, anybody?

Only "Deus ex machina" (antic term), which we need now. :D

[Daniel 0]

Check back for a post from MattXR, he linked a lot of the Greek clues to the War of Independence.

[Innomadic 10]

Came onto the clue wiki at school today, just to check if theres been any development, so i was quite surprised when i found the following written on the countdown link

http://armaenigma.com/index.php?title=Wednesday,_May_11th_2011,_06:00_CEST

Wednesday, May 11th 2011, 06:00 CEST

omg. the army was at canberra and they had arma 3 writen on the shirts

As Freebourne on AusArma stated however

Has that since been removed, I only see it in page history.

Posted by someone at school/tafe (Department of Education) in ACT, so maybe it was spam? It does seem very plausible though. If you're going to pitch anything to ADF you'd do it at Canberra.

I think VBS did have a presentation either today or yesterday, but I thought it was somewhere in Sydney at a milsim conference

Its possible it could be someone dicking around, but i am checking up on a couple of Army friends based in Canberra to see whether this is legit or not. Course he could simply not have any idea at all and it did happen...but im gonna check anyways.

Edited May 10, 2011 by Innomadic

[bobocz 10]

I want to connect it globally, not only see separate hint. :o

[birtuma 28]

The slow worm lives on the Ionian Islands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands

Now look there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands#British_rule

Especially this part is very interesting:

Once Greek independence was established after 1830, however, the islanders began to resent foreign rule and to press for enosis - union with Greece. The British statesman William Ewart Gladstone toured the islands and recommended that they be given to Greece. The British government resisted, since like the Venetians they found the islands made useful naval bases.

Look on the number 31 on this map and where it shows: http://armaenigma.com/images/d/d9/Treasure.jpg

1821 is there year when greeks started their fight for independance.

And we also have a photo of the shoe of this old soldiers or guards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evzones

The Evzones, or Evzoni, (Greek: ΕÏζωνες, ΕÏζωνοι) is the name of several historical elite light infantry and mountain units of the Greek Army.

The unit is famous around the world for its unique traditional uniform, which has evolved from the clothes worn by the klephts who fought the Ottoman occupation of Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klepht

Klephts (Greek: κλέφτης, pl. κλέφτες - kleftis, kleftes, which originally meant just "brigand") were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.

Now it's like 1 + 1... I think we will get an addon or maybe even ARMA 3 where we have 3 sides: China/Iran as OPFOR, some guerilla (like greeks then) and GB (british navy?) as BLUEFOR. The guerillas are citizen of some islands and fight against the invaders China/Iran, they get help from GB.

Edited May 10, 2011 by birtuma

[glowbal 13]

Might it be that the map is a deployment map? For defence perhaps?

The uncovered map seems to be a sheet from a military manual identifying some kind of war maneuvers across parts of Europe.

Defending is also a war manuever, right?

Just throwing this out here.

[max power 21]

It could be. The map itself makes references to CIA mind control experiments and doubts of the reliability of something, probably information. It would seem that this is a scenario based on information gained from unwilling sources.

[CameronMcDonald 147]

Nice work on the coordinates.

Still, the whole "Greece" angle is unexplained. We got:

- a text file with the name of a Greek plant.

- an MP3 audio file with the Greek motto.

- an SVG drawing with the number 1821, the year the Greek war of independence began.

- GIF image of a statue of Hephaestus, a Greek god.

- JPEG of a slow worm indigenous to Greece.

- A PNG of a shoe of the Greek royal guards.

Greece, anybody?

Wasn't the particular breed of slow worm found to be indigenous to the area surrounding the real-life Malden (Lefkas)?

As per the map on this page?

[-Paladin- 10]

Might it be that the map is a deployment map? For defence perhaps?

Defending is also a war manuever, right?

Just throwing this out here.

NAVY?, reforge convoys or what it was cal´d in the cold war era in the case of cold war gos hot.

USMC landing sites?

[max power 21]

Well, Greece is associated with 31 on the map. It's not got a "Nav" unit associated with it, tho.

The complete list of numbers is as follows, with the numbers in p3R51An 8lacK Hat5 8oy5 highlighted (3518585).

Originally this post's point was I thought that the arrow was pointing at Levkas but, upon reviewing the map, I was mistaken.

97 NAV ( Atlantic Ocean => Iceland's West Coast )

91 NAV ( Atlantic Ocean => Scotland and Shetland Islands )

17 AB ( Switzerland )

4 NAV ( Black Sea => Northern Poland )

32 ( Turkey => Normandy, France or Belgium )

33 ( Turkey => Greece )

31 ( Turkey => Slovenia )

5 NAV ( Atlantic Ociean => Northern Spain and Mallorca Island )

12 NAV ( Mediterranean Sea => Southern France and Sardinia )

Edited May 10, 2011 by Max Power

[Genenain 10]

I just want to trow something:

1 hack; letters in red:

p3R51An 8lacK Hat5 8oy5 42(answer for everything) Spukayev's files still buried there.

So they have the answer for everything.

They gave us the map. (The world will change; , not only physics etc...they mean a real change in armaverse)

We know where now (Greece). Astute+Miller= GB as in independance war will help there.

We know who : Persian (Not only iran....here is where i want to go) + chinese (letters in chinese...)

The sentence says what is on us comes from ourselves, or what happens to us is our fault. That said Europe will make a big mistake and Turkey will be the starting point of the invasion. (not only Iran)

another thing . MK i don't think it has something to do with the project...

I think it's "OK" or aproved. OK is nomally used for zero killed. (0 k)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk

or "Mark"= borders. So for me the map is a report sent by SDDUSTER of the invasion plans. Spain is the entrance of Mediterranean.So they need to close it (and has also american an american base) South of France, and control of northern atlantic and germany is to prevent an ally response.

what do you think? (many things have been said by others...all credit goes to the respective owners)

PS: Sorry for my english.

[mr burns 133]

Nice work on the coordinates.

Still, the whole "Greece" angle is unexplained. We got:

- a text file with the name of a Greek plant.

- an MP3 audio file with the Greek motto.

- an SVG drawing with the number 1821, the year the Greek war of independence began.

- GIF image of a statue of Hephaestus, a Greek god.

- JPEG of a slow worm indigenous to Greece.

- A PNG of a shoe of the Greek royal guards.

Greece, anybody?

Now wheres Ex-Ronin when you need him ..