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23rd Jul 04, 12:35 PM
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Cylon Sexbots
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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ilovebees.com and the Halo2 Conspiracy
As some of you may or may not know, the Halo2 Theatrical Trailer has been out for about a week and is available for download. What is interesting is at the end of the trailer it flickers a website www.ilovebees.com and quickly flashes back to www.xbox.com. If you are to venture to www.ilovebees.com you are presented with what appears to be some women's site about beekeeping and whatnot that has apparently been hacked and now has a timer on it counting down reading:
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The timer counting down reads at time of posting 31:16:10:34 . It has been figured to be counting down to August 25, 2004. Many things have happend on that date, Judgement day on Terminator, Windows 95 released, etc. (the site is safe I go no warnings from Anti-virus or firewall) Then if you follow the link right below http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/ Where victem "Dana" has been forced to make a new site in order to address the problem of the hacker. If you read the comments posted by her and the other people, it become quite apparent this is a little off. For one thing if she had truely been hacked, she would have contacted her hosting service and had them change the password and reset the directory of her site. And then reload all the site material back on. Then the wording of her posts about how she "can't fix this problem" blah blah blah. On the most recent blog she has, the comment on it start conversing along the topic of a Microsoft/Bungie marketing conspiracy for halo2. The flicker of the "www.ilovebees.com" on the video is not accidental nor the work of a hacker. It is in there intentionally. Opinions? For me I think its hoax, the timer counting down is one of two possibilities: - The actual release date for Halo2 - Day and month Convent attack earth in the game I'm leaning towards #1.The site is all a setup for Halo2 marketing attention all at no cost to MS or Bungie. As for the poor lady; she is nothing but a microsoft cronie. The hack never happend because the site was never there to be hacked in the first place. I have yet to find out when the site was actually put in place, but I don't think that its been around too long. Viewing the source code of the main link to ilovebees, the meta tag is very odd indeed. Quote:
Anyone with half a brain would see thru this as a marketing ploy. Kudos to MS for almost pulling it off. EDIT: Hybris has also informed me that the other pages on the main ilovebees site has interesting goofs. Lookign in the source is interesting. on the http://www.ilovebees.com/honey.html page. Last edited by NovaBurn : 23rd Jul 04 at 12:48 PM. |
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23rd Jul 04, 12:52 PM
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1999 baby
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Ties in nicely with either a rampant usnc AI or a covenant AI humping our systems before an invasion.
Dont just say "pft ms marketing ploy", its bungies way of involving their hardcore fans in a way no other developer does. Like the cortana letters preceeding halo, this should be a pretty neat little sidestory before the game hits shelves. |
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23rd Jul 04, 2:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: in a tent, on Earth, Or the uk.
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Seriously,i think its part of a game. i only did a bit of searching, all of which originateed from the site and the blog.
First one to pop up was http://ninemillionbees.blogspot.com...w.html#comments That led to http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=78/ and http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page The forum led me to http://www.immersionunlimited.com/v...5490db4ed49d0bf The TobI thing led me to http://www.ideltech.com/ There seems to be a lot of info on the forums about this, all originating from that one website.  I'm confused  |
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23rd Jul 04, 3:00 PM
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Danger Fire Kills Children
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Keep Away From Children
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ONO the website has been hacked by radiohead! |
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23rd Jul 04, 3:10 PM
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Big Daddy
Join Date: Jul 2002
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I read up a bit more about this. Apparently if you put the corrupted images into a word proccessor it will come up with messages if you put them all together. The message is something about a widdow trying to restore a dead queen with a knife. Makes no sense at all if you ask me.
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23rd Jul 04, 6:32 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: im in ur base, killin ur d00dz
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i lurve conspiracies, even artificial ones designed to keep geeks like us on edge
EDIT: rc mad, this is for you. at the ideltech website, i found this on one of the "people" pages- Quote:
i am lost as to what it links to. my sister's boyfriend says it reminds him of backgammon EDIT again: no surrender, i found what the images say here it is, second post. after more digging about ideltech's ToBI, i found www.ruaware.org. its an online immersion game. i have no idea if its related. lots of links on there, checking them out as we speak. and shin, of course its a marketing ploy, what else could it be? but like all the little tidbits in halo, its something to keep the fans amused. Last edited by Ramrod : 23rd Jul 04 at 7:24 PM. |
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23rd Jul 04, 7:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Florida
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Ooohoo. I like this Ideltech website: http://www.ideltech.com/news.htm
Gets very interesting for the news a few months ago... Obviously part of this creative waste of our time as well. I seem to remember a countdown clock from a thread about half a year ago as well with no indication as to what it was counting down for. Though I can't help but wish this was all true and something exciting was going to happen somewhere other than the Mideast, one would hope that as much effort goes into making the damn game as there is hyping it up. |
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24th Jul 04, 5:30 AM
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This isn't the first time Bungie Software has done something like this.
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html |
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24th Jul 04, 10:37 AM
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I must say this, as well as the actual Halo game, has all passed by me. Sadly. I love such "conspiracies" and it's just not the same reading up on them from the future (weird, no ?). A well construed Gibsonesque high-tech conspiracy can really be entertaining.
So, anyone want to illuminate me ? Past, present and future ? |
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24th Jul 04, 3:19 PM
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The source code also has the name of the countdown as "countdowntochina".
Googling that gives www.buzzle.com story on a china space program.  On second thoughts... that is way off. Oh well, I'm no Net detective. :P Notice the intellignet bit hinting at the AI cortana? (This may be way off, and I've chosen the wrong google link :P). But I guess, especially with the fake Tech/AI industries site, that they are writing a back story to 2004 for Halo. And now recreating the story on the web, to make it look like a real event... ect. |
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25th Jul 04, 9:15 AM
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Another point of note is that if this site is indeed a personal site dedicated to her business, she obviously doesn't know much when it comes to web hosting.
This site has been posted on /. , numerous forums, and many other places on the internet, and it has survived the huge hit counts. So, she's either paying a fortune for bandwidth every month, or this is a site sponsored by the bigwigs. |
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25th Jul 04, 2:14 PM
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http://www.thefridgeowl.com/
the same counter. Quote:
http://www.ilovebees.com/links.html ok? |
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25th Jul 04, 2:27 PM
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The page views in different and equally creepy ways for Firefox and IE.
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25th Jul 04, 2:54 PM
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Atmospheric Entry Elephant
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Alphabet City (NYC)
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If you check the source code for the fridgeowl website it has this in it:
<script language=Javascript1.2 src="countdowntochina.js"></script><BR> Countdown to china? Wierd. EDIT: Just noticed, the fridge owl countdown is 2 days behind the I love bees one. |
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25th Jul 04, 3:00 PM
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Does anyone know how to do the nifty JPEG de-encryption thing? I wouldn't put it past them.
Okay, I say this with absolute confidence, I know what it's supposed to be. PS, if you think I'm wrong, argue with spoiler tags. Last edited by SquidDNA : 25th Jul 04 at 4:59 PM. |
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27th Jul 04, 10:14 AM
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Comes & Goes
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Nebraska. Yes, I'm sorry, too.
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Didn't something like this go on for NFL Street before it was released? Something about some beta-tester revealing 'sekret information' dealing with people going crazy who played the game. It became fairly obvious it was a hoax after a while, but it was still cool.
I think it's great that this is going on. Pumps people up for the game. TheGeneral |
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27th Jul 04, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Florida
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Network throttling has eroded.
There's some new passages appearing on ilovebees including a crapload of websites on every load of the links page. http://www.ilovebees.com/links.html |
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27th Jul 04, 1:13 PM
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Atmospheric Entry Elephant
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Alphabet City (NYC)
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C-and-C. If they decide that strategic advantage is too great to risk and don't act, then you know Section Zero will be all over them. Zero's wanted Standish forever.
1st Lt Sorenson: I...I understand. It's so much easier for everyone if we don't tell them. But...wait a second. Don't you have family on Troy? Capt. Greene: That can't be part of the equation, Rolf. You know that. 1st Lt Sorenson: Jesus. Capt. Greene: -I think we have to This sounds REALLY familiar. Where is it from again? Found it under GOODIES on the site in the links page. |
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27th Jul 04, 1:47 PM
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Blast from the past!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Clarion, PA
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Survive evade resist escape survive evade resist escape It says this for 4 or lines Another: Note: !Attach Act | Drop !Attach Act | Drop surg: !kill sec prog 4 kill confidence 100 !diag primary sector clear HALT - MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE Control has been yielded to the SYSTEM PERIL DISTRIBUTED REFLEX. This medium is classified, and has a STRONG INTRUSIVE INCLINATION. PHASE 1 COMPLETE: Network throttling has eroded. In 14 days this medium will metastasize. COUNTDOWN TO WIDE AWAKE AND PHYSICAL: 27:14:11:55:610 Make your decisions accordingly. This is the strangest: your guts still clench and [SPDR: INTERRUPT] [SURRENDER CONTROL] [PROBE IN PROGRESS] oh great, this time I can *feel* the pings. Everything, I can feel the traffic, my skin is sliding around, pores opening and closing, feels like empty shell cases rattling in my [SPDR: PROBE COMPLETE] [RESUME CONTROL] heave and... Can't remember where I just was, but have a general feeling Once, for instance, she sunk her probe into my brain and out leaked the word for "loneliness" in three hundred languages. The Spider doesn't understand about the Assassin. Spider's just a reflex, a task and a toolset. Doesn't get the bigger picture. I'm nailed to a griddle of sand while some bitch is shooting Arrelts: That's great, the single best babies, Tag destroyers. Command HQ is usually Truth or Dare, Red Light picket? ONI tech Kowalski: Couriers, too. Midshipman Arrelts: (laughs) File's classified. Midshipman: Even for you? ONI tech Kowalski: Well, of course, Well... (whispers) Spin the Bottle. Midshipman Arrelts: (laughs) ONI tech Kowalski: (laughs) (laughs) ONI tech Kowalski: So, maybe dinner tonight? Lock away the mirror I'm Trying to impress her favorite game It's all over the site now. A blurry picture of a woman also pops up sometimes. SPDR must stand for the Spider probe, though. DOUBLE POST You hear muffled screaming on the 'the myth of comatas' page. Last edited by Starblade : 27th Jul 04 at 2:03 PM. |
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27th Jul 04, 2:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: im in ur base, killin ur d00dz
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if you guys are really interested, here are a couple of links to sites devoted to this:
the Bee Hive and the Haunted Apiary. the mystery goes a lot deeper than anything we've mentioned here edit: no problem, starblade. the more people become involved, the sooner we all find out what bungie is trying to tell us |
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27th Jul 04, 2:27 PM
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Ohhh....
Perhaps... Three options! 1) Its Keys... he has an implant. With the Flood taking him over. Or a medic examining the now found implant or whatever... only some parts fit this character. 2) Its a AI of some sort. So the body parts are sybolic, and not real. 3) ITs Master cheif/another Spartan (yes, there is now more than one MC!) being made! He has been enhanced both phisically (yuk) and mentally, with implants and programming ect... I prefer 3, but its a close one with 2... |
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27th Jul 04, 4:17 PM
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Blast from the past!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Clarion, PA
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No, Cortana is still in the Master Chief, at least that's what one of the trailers suggest. He activates a plasma grenade, then says 'Think I can stick it', Cortana, IIRC, says 'Go for it'. It's most likely another AI, captured by the Covenant, which explains how they found their way to Earth in the E3 trailer.
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27th Jul 04, 4:55 PM
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Blast from the past!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Clarion, PA
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That's it, I couldn't remember what it was. Fedman's right.
Look at the links Roddy posted, they raise a lot of questions. There are multiple pictures of one girl, each blurrier then the last. Also, the site seems to be deteriorating. But like I said, read the links posted. |
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27th Jul 04, 5:21 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Florida
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Those aren't the only links. There are more if you refresh the page. For example, I remember on one pass through that page all of the links seemed to be centered around Homer's Odyssey and Odysseus. I haven't played Halo so I don't know the plot, so I'm unsure if that has any outward relevance to its story.
Many of the sites seem to be random or perhaps favorites or inside jokes with whoever is perpetrating this, but occasionally (especially the music, science, or mythology themed) they imply some sort of central idea. |
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