Iris ARG hits Craigslist, Yahoo Classifieds, other sites. Update 10.

Wow. I don't think that it is some firing of Halo's sequence on the messege. Definatly more of just a clean-up process or some way to put the Flood into dormancy without destroying life. Whoever it was on the phone sounds human, so that may confirm Human-Forerunner relationships perhaps. Flood reclaimation and Spartans being reclaimers? Coincidental. Are the ads on most countries or at least every U.S. state? The recording does'nt sound it is supposed to be a recording, more like something that is currently happening, but like most of the time, I could be wrong. Halo 3 is awesome. Those guys at Bungie are pretty cool, too.

EDIT: Definatly NOT a recording, it is a conference call. Was it this time that the Forerunners confirmed the existence of the Flood? Are we the Forerunners? That'd be jawsome.

EDIT...2.0: OKAY maybe the Flood bacteria evolves or comes about in stagnant water. Why the hell did we not think of that? Just a regular flood, nothing Biblical. Anyway, it looks as though they are hiring to contain a real flood. This could be fake, but why only in these cities? What state is Bungie's office at? Seattle, right? It seems like these people are hiding something, like they are not cleaning actual "floods"(notice the ellipses at the end). Like some non-profit agency hiding behind the government. Maybe they are releasing the Flood or don't want any gov't to get involved in their discovery/plans. Check out the EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/mold/flood/index.html. Who else is involved?

the secret to this message is the dial tone that is typed in when pressing star it asked for a pin and this is probably it. Now if onyl I had some way to recognize the tones.

This is real or else one seriously elaborate prank. It's not just Craigslist with the posting, or windows expo, which has a load of postings by a guy called Flood Master. Yahoo Classified's has it too.

Also, what the heck are echolocations supposed to be? some kind of device?

Hey, that could actually explain the echo effects on the recording at the beginning and end, couldn't it?

there is a new message today on the line the number i picked up form it is 4107.

it could be a prank because 4-1-07 was april fools day of this year so idk w/e

Does any one one know of any web sites that might have the new recording in Mp3 form? oh, In cased the admins didn't notice the message changed as of july 8 (sat.)

It said something about data hiddin behind(?) a false menu. maybe they got there own site comin up soon? idk....

I made a recording of the new message: you can find it here: http://www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbish/halo3/recording_9_7_07.mp3 sorry I left the dailing stuff in, forgot to edit it, but there we go. Going to splice together this recording and yesterdays, see what the entire conversation is like... I get the feeling that there's a part to the conversation we're missing, at the end, both people say "Okay, bye Bill", so unless they're both named Bill in a bizzare coincidence... We're not hearing what this "Bill" has to say, hence the long pauses and the odd dotty peices of speech there are. What do you guys think?

I made a recording of the new message: you can find it here: http://www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbish/halo3/recording_9_7_07.mp3 sorry I left the dailing stuff in, forgot to edit it, but there we go. Going to splice together this recording and yesterdays, see what the entire conversation is like... I get the feeling that there's a part to the conversation we're missing, at the end, both people say "Okay, bye Bill", so unless they're both named Bill in a bizzare coincidence... We're not hearing what this "Bill" has to say, hence the long pauses and the odd dotty peices of speech there are. What do you guys think?

Transcript: (Note: (?) = Not sure how accurate it is.)

[Woman at start]
1:This isn't necessary, neither is the doc download
2:I agree, this isn't going to be a public resource, pass on the document number so I can delete it.
3: ...
1: There's no way to tell yet, Jenny's looking into the records to see how many closed sites there are. But as for Active Clean Up, around 3-4 Thousand. Here it is, hold on; 402k07002 and in terms of numbers, most of these are patched at the (E)DB (?) stage.
3: ...
2: With a few exceptions, site number 34, 107 and 37. The centre usually goes before we go, that's been my experiance. By the time we've got the site cleaned, they've already moved onto more pressing needs, after all we've had some unpredictable seasons lately.
3: ...
2: No need, there's a resident (?) avaliable to us if we need her.
3: ...
1: But everything we still need to look into.
3: ...
2: Well, we're working on it, for the moment we're simply hiding all the data behind a false menu isle (?).
1: The security will be updated before the next season aproaches.
3: ... ... ...
1&2: Okay, great, Thanks bill.

Transcript: (Note: (?) = Not sure how accurate it is.)
[Woman at start]
1:This isn't necessary, neither is the doc download
2:I agree, this isn't going to be a public resource, pass on the document number so I can delete it.
3: ...
1: There's no way to tell yet, Jenny's looking into the records to see how many closed sites there are. But as for Active Clean Up, around 3-4 Thousand. Here it is, hold on; 402k07002 and in terms of numbers, most of these are patched at the (E)DB (?) stage.
3: ...
2: With a few exceptions, site number 34, 107 and 37. The centre usually goes before we go, that's been my experience. By the time we've got the site cleaned, they've already moved onto more pressing needs, after all we've had some unpredictable seasons lately.
3: ...
2: No need, their rep is available to us any time we need her.
3: ...
1: But everything we still need to look into.
3: ...
2: Well, we're working on it, for the moment we're simply hiding all the data behind a false menu item.
1: The security will be updated before the next season approaches.
3: ... ... ...
1&2: Okay, great, Thanks bill.

when I tried to copy the files Array_Recorder_Data.txt etc
to another machine(ntfs to fat32) I got an error message
saying that there were multiple data streams present and
I would lose stuff if I moved the files . . .
Anyone want to try and pull out the other streams?

ntspec

You can't just recommend something technical-sounding and expect it to work like the characters in Star Trek do.

call up, then press star. they prompt you to put in a password.

Hah, looks like I was right. Today they changed the message again, it seems to be the same recording but it's now "participent 3" instead of "participent 1, 2". Now we get to hear the full message, but it's split up again. I'll get on recording it now.

[Woman at start]
1:This isn't necessary, neither is the doc download
2:I agree, this isn't going public resource, pass on the document number so I can delete it.
3: So where does that put us in terms of numbers then?
1: There's no way to tell yet, Jenny's looking into the records to see how many closed sites there are. But as for Active Clean Up, around 3-4 Thousand.
4: Lovely.
Here it is, hold on; 402k07002 and in terms of numbers, most of these are patched at the (E)DB (?) stage.
4: About 4 thousand or so of those we're expecting to close up on bulk by the end of the month.
2: With a few exceptions, site number 34, 107 and 37. The centre usually goes before we go, that's been my experiance. By the time we've got the site cleaned, they've already moved onto more pressing needs, after all we've had some unpredictable seasons lately.
3: ...
2: No need, their rep is avaliable to us if we need her.
3: ...
1: But everything we still need to look into.
3: ...
2: Well, we're working on it, for the moment we're simply hiding all the data behind a false menu isle (?).
1: The security will be updated before the next season aproaches.
3: ... ... ...
1&2: Okay, great, Thanks bill.
Woman: Thank you for calling. Good bye.

----- Key
1: Guy 1
2: Guy 2
3: Bill
4: Gal 1

Download new recording: http://www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbish/halo3/recording_10_7_07.mp3

Has anyone tried to combine the messages into a coherent conversation. It might explain who the Hell the people are talking to.

Hm, well... What about what I've been doing JUST A COMMENT ABOVE YOURS? =P

Anyway, NEW MESSAGE TIME~. Sounds like they gave us an IP, but I think it was a bit short, I'll transcript and upload the recording of the new message. This will give us the full conversation between the 4 of them. Hold onto your hats people.

[Woman at start]
1:This isn't necessary, neither is the doc download
2:I agree, this isn't going to be a public resource, pass on the document number so I can delete it.
3: So where does that put us in terms of numbers then?
1: There's no way to tell yet, Jenny's looking into the records to see how many closed sites there are. But as for Active Clean Up, around 3-4 Thousand.
4: Loveley.
Here it is, hold on; 402k07002 and in terms of numbers, most of these are patched at the (E)DB (?) stage.
4: About 4 thousand or so of those we're expecting to close up on bulk by the end of the month.
2: With a few exceptions, site number 34, 107 and 37.
3: Even with CDC involvement?
2:The centre usually goes before we go, that's been my experiance. By the time we've got the site cleaned, they've already moved onto more pressing needs, after all we've had some unpredictable seasons lately.
4: Should we be intergrating the NIOSH database?
2: No need, their rep is avaliable to us if we need her.
3: That gives us tap on all active locations?
1: But everything we still need to look into.
3: What about security?
2: Well, we're working on it, for the moment we're simply hiding all the data behind a false menu item.
1: The security will be updated before the next season aproaches.
3: And access?
4: Enter the access code at our site.
3: IP / 3463 or something?
4: yeah, / 5467K, actually, it should be opperational any time...
3: Great, I'll pass it on. I have to drop, thanks everyone.
4: Okay, thanks.
1&2: Okay, great, Thanks bill.
Woman: Thank you for calling. Good bye.

-----
1: Guy 1
2: Guy 2
3: Bill
4: Gal 1 (Jenny)?

Have we missed their site somewhere along the way? We have an access key now. IP/5467K is it, so where are we supposed to use it? Hm...

http://www.ssukstudios.co.uk/_rubbish/halo3/recording_11_7_07.mp3

Oops, almost forgot this.

I also had an idea, anyone checked the high def Halo 3 trailer(s) from E3 yesterday to see if they harboured a hidden few numbers or something?

there is a new server open at halo3.com

how do we acess it?

All of the listings in expo.live.com for this list an expiration date of Aug 30 and if you click to see any of the maps ALL of the locations are exactly 1 mile from a park. seems like they are trying to organize a rally in each of the cities listed.

AAHHH i can't figure out how to get in
it says that 100 keys have been put in but i've been to all the sites and none have links to it...

i'm not checking through bungie forums becuase as much as i'd love to actually be there playing, my dad completely forgot all our information for our gamertag so i don't even bother...

so my point is...
anyone wanna go search through the threads?

ummm to get to the server 2 go to the link on the home page here on this website its in the red box on the right of the page that say halo3 iris breaking news