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What is eon8?
ES-12 F18621775337B9B9F958906208506E57E4137B61487B4E2430033E05B9898370728B082147546E06
1F83701412F80B84143E1257212E59531871015634330815061F83701412F80B84143E1257696917
B3E6581361F2204061F83701412F80B84143E1257
1F83701412F80B84143E1257212E59531871015634330815061F83701412F80B84143E1257696917
B3E6581361F2204061F83701412F80B84143E1257
Hexadecimal? But nikciske only returns gibberish.
from /. :
"For six months a website called eon8 (probably down) has carried a countdown to July 1, along with vague and mysterious codes. In addition, strange code-bearing posts associated with the site were made in various webforums, and the site carried a map of the world marked by spots of "deployment". All of this, along with some apparent recorded visits by US military and intelligence computers, led many people to believe this was an imminent terrorist operation or a massive virus to be unleashed on the web-surfing public. Turns out, it was just an experiment by a 23-year-old guy named Chris from Florida who wanted to see how people would react to an absence of information, and he was disappointed that people expected the worst -- even going to so far as to attempt to hack his webserver and make phone calls to anyone with any perceived tangential connection to the site or its host. A mirror of the site in its current state is available with an explanation added by the site owner after the countdown expired."
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/01/1539215.shtml
"For six months a website called eon8 (probably down) has carried a countdown to July 1, along with vague and mysterious codes. In addition, strange code-bearing posts associated with the site were made in various webforums, and the site carried a map of the world marked by spots of "deployment". All of this, along with some apparent recorded visits by US military and intelligence computers, led many people to believe this was an imminent terrorist operation or a massive virus to be unleashed on the web-surfing public. Turns out, it was just an experiment by a 23-year-old guy named Chris from Florida who wanted to see how people would react to an absence of information, and he was disappointed that people expected the worst -- even going to so far as to attempt to hack his webserver and make phone calls to anyone with any perceived tangential connection to the site or its host. A mirror of the site in its current state is available with an explanation added by the site owner after the countdown expired."
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/01/1539215.shtml
Huh. I didn't think about terrorism. In fact, I was just interested in deciphering.