ArmA 2 site hacked

[STALKERGB 6]

do you know if somebody participated there who can deliever some information to us? ( maybe even an registered user?)

BTW who was able to visit this? was it only a party of elected journalists and people working in the bussiness?

and didnt it start at 19:00 ? FB post has this as a time in it

i think this event was very interesting also for our topic!

I've been through everyone listed as attending to see if they have tweeted anything but none of them seem to have written a single word about it (the ones that have accounts on twitter).

[maddogx 13]

Maybe someone has already pointed this out, but I've just noticed that the questions in the AAN article aren't numbered, which is also why I was able to interpret them as starting with zero instead of one.

Perhaps it has some other meaning though. In a quiz with 21 questions, surely they would normally have numbered them. There is even a hint of sorts to it:

The quiz is reprinted here exactly as we received it:

That is definitely a hint to the format or content of the quiz. Why else would they have stressed that part?

[:DDDDDDD 10]

21 x 2 = 42

[maddogx 13]

21 x 2 = 42

Yes yes, very nice. Now upstairs to bed, dear. The grownups are talking.

[jakerod 254]

Yes yes, very nice. Now upstairs to bed, dear. The grownups are talking.

Well that wasn't called for.

I don't think the date is the final thing. There is no real payoff to the game if that is what we get from it. There has to be something else but I have no idea what it is.

Edited May 16, 2011 by Jakerod

[sw1 10]

Can someone explain why it was decided that the number should be converted from senary into decimal, rather than decimal --> senary (which would give 35253411125034034041202042 :))

[noubernou 77]

If VBS2 1.50 is anything to go off of, there is at least some very interesting tech that could be moved to Arma2, even with out an engine upgrade. I hope it involves some of that at least (though a whole new engine would be much much much more interesting... :p).

[purepassion 22]

from AAN homepage

so we convinced the developers to at least hint when they will shed some light onto the matter

almost clear note for the the solution being a date if we just would be able to decrypt the current result somehow

[maddogx 13]

Can someone explain why it was decided that the number should be converted from senary into decimal, rather than decimal --> senary (which would give 35253411125034034041202042 :))

Because it just happens to consist of the numbers 0 through 5, meaning it could be senary. And senary numbers are mentioned in the post, which is what pointed us in that direction in the first place. Interesting thought though.

Will check that out.

[-GR-Operative 10]

Can someone explain why it was decided that the number should be converted from senary into decimal, rather than decimal --> senary (which would give 35253411125034034041202042 :))

Well, 111 301 511 120 010 101 310 looks rather senary. It could be decimal aswell, but it looks senary (no algarisms above 5), this is the only explanation I could find.

[sw1 10]

I found something the numbers can be long and lat grid references!

Lat: 44.187358

Long: 42.374954

See this site http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya respublika, Russia

Sorry, it turns out someone pointed this out a while back

Edited May 16, 2011 by SW1

[jakerod 254]

I found something the numbers can be long and lat grid references!

Lat: 44.187358

Long: 42.374954

See this site http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

44.187358

42.374954

Chechnya??

That points to a road in Chechnya (well maybe Chechnya, I saw Grozny on the map kind of close to it.) However, the road that it is on is not accurate to the satellite image.

Reversing it puts you on the side of a mountain in what I think is Georgia.

[-GR-Operative 10]

I think someone pointed that http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?p=1925309&postcount=6126

[jakerod 254]

Operative;1925749']I think someone pointed that http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?p=1925309&postcount=6126

I didn't see that. (that explains it. I wasn't up at 6am this morning and only checked the first few pages after I went to bed this morning, the last few after I woke up, and the wiki)

[nkenny 1057]

Well...

We've got a map of Europe. Why should Bohemia limit themselves to one country? Imagine three Zargabad+ sized maps that deal with three different places. Though not done in a major BIS release before, that hardly seems like an impossible solution. If we are truly dealing with a world war like scenario the game DOESN'T necessarily have to cover every nitty little gunfight that happens everywhere.

-k

[t_d 47]

Things that make me wonder:

-questions are not numbered, so that could mean they need to be ordered somehow

-the number of possible answers seems odd because it looks so arbitrary chosen but maybe it has a reason

-answers start with 0 not 1

[SASrecon 0]

42 hours between each hack / 2 = 21

21 x 2 = 42

Been said a few pages back :P

Things that make me wonder:

-questions are not numbered, so that could mean they need to be ordered somehow

-the number of possible answers seems odd because it looks so arbitrary chosen but maybe it has a reason

-answers start with 0 not 1

Binary codes/numbers can start with a 0 because you usually need to fill up the byte, you don't usually send single bits e.g. if you wanna send a signal like decimal 5, you would send it as 0101, not 101 :rolleyes: this probably doesn't have much significance though, it just confuzles me even moar

[SASrecon 0]

Why so aggressive i just said what i think. :)

TBH I kinda agree with MadDog. What relevance does that have? About as useful as 1+2=3. I'll say again that it doesn't help when people are actively trying to solve the latest hack when people are just spewing out random sh*t, it would help more if comments like the one you posted weren't all over this thread.

[=wfl= sgt bilko 10]

Funny, if you only look at answers with yes/no and translate from bin to dec it ends up being 2011 (11111011011b)...

And if you take the remaining answers, they end up being 1305120030 which leads nowhere ... :D

[-Paladin- 10]

Damn nobady had found a cypher for that senary combo :-(

I was searching and searching but nothing -.-

111 301 511 120 010 101 310 this giving us a name or a date or a IP or AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA muss kill every one musssss killllll

mybe even if we do 111 301 511 120 010 101 310:21 or 42 we get somthing new.

21 the number of q askt and 42 dont know magical number solwing evry thing.

Smells like a dead end.

[jakerod 254]

I stated this before but I thought it was mentioning again.

15 4 17 7 11

Those are the numbers from the last question (without the answer). Maybe those numbers were chosen for a reason.

[t_d 47]

Funny, if you only look at answers with yes/no and translate from bin to dec it ends up being 2011 (11111011011b)...

And if you take the remaining answers, they end up being 1305120030 which leads nowhere ... :D

Niice!

That gave me an idea, you can group the questions by the number of answers and use the respective system to get a decimal number. Here are my solutions:

*11 binary questions:

11111011011 = 2011d

*3 trenary questions:

012 = 5d

*3 quarternary questions:

103 = 19d

*2 quinary questions:

30 = 15d

*2 senary questions:

50 = 30d

Can't really make sense of it though :confused:

Edited May 16, 2011 by T_D

[scajolly 14]

If BIS confounded the community by giving them an RL photo with photoshopped and barely discernible elements... WTF are they doing giving us numbers. It's like they get some perverted sense of joy from watching the reaction. =)

[-GR-Operative 10]

Niice!

That gave me an idea, you can group the questions by the number of answers and use the respective system to get a decimal number. Here are my solutions:

*11 binary questions:

11111011011 = 2011d

*3 trenary questions:

012 = 3d

*3 quarternary questions:

103 = 19d

*2 quinary questions:

30 = 15d

*2 senary questions:

50 = 30d

Can't really make sense of it though :confused:

Let's hope 11111011011b is not only a coincidence, and so work on it.

Are you sure the numbers are correct?

Shouldn't it be:

*3 ternary questions:

010 = 3d

Or the other way around, lol, the correct one as pointed by yourself :)

*3 ternary questions:

012 = 5d

Edited May 16, 2011 by [GR]Operative

[PuFu 4600]

1. there is a clue the so call quiz is about an actual date

2. there is a clue the result of the answer is in senary

3. there is a clue about the actual layout of the question being important:

a. the question with Y/N answers seem to be intercalated with the multi option ones (2 exceptions present)

b. the number of available answers pick_one_Q varies form 3 to 6

i see no relation atm, but maybe someone else has a click...

are all the answers verified as true? Or did everyone took the first ones as they were? - not sure if that would make a difference at this point

Edited May 16, 2011 by PuFu