mmmm viral marketing.

Yes, I thought so too. But what are they selling then?


And how/why/when could they do this?
http://174.133.240.117/

Type in search term "alfa tsentr", name of a Russian PMC.

ALSO why are they recruiting on 4chan?

Are you suggesting this is for Dorritos? :)

Well, I've gotten to this so far..

Junko Junsui is a genetically modified individual. One of these individuals has been captured by a Russian PMC.

The 174.133 is a flash google front. If you search for alfa tsentr on the google front it forwards you to a facebook page. But half the content on the facebook page is fake.

The pictures are hex coded.

Now, there's a combination of serial numbers in several of the videos.

if you go to the website http://www.alfa-tsentr.ru/.. it asks for a serial number and a password.

Now, I havent cracked the hex meaning in the facebook content... but I'm pretty sure the serial codes laying around are the same serial codes to access the Russian PMC.

Now the Japanese bioengineering company also has a login area.

We have two things to look at... the coded information and something about 9 names of the 8 corps involved.

New developments, Alfa Tsenter is hosted by Datafort.ru who does databasing work for Alfa Tsenter and Alfa Group.

Alfa Group seems to subsidize Alfa Tsenter.

I have sent an email earlier today to one of these websites only to have an recording of an angry russian man blasted on my G voice account from a blocked number.

I'm starting to get the creeps.

Is anyone else still following this? It's either completely brilliant, or a complete trainwreck ... or (I give this about a %10 chance) it's all actually real.

Wikipedia entry for Alfa Tsenter has been removed from Wikipedia [suspected hoax article], but it still exists in Google Cache:

Alfa-Tsentr (Alpha-Center, Russian: Альфа-Центр) is a Russian private military company based in Beloretsk, Russia.[1] The company served an important logistics and support role throughout the course of the Second Chechen War, and served as an auxiliary guard to the pro Kremlin regime of Akhmad Kadyrov

The athor of that page is this person:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lifebaka

It leads on to other articles by the author about this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering

Curious. I suspect either a game or a movie.

But then again, who is Gesamtkunstwerk9? A google search brings up Archinect 1st, followed by this interesting article:

http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/soi/article/view/8004/7156

NEW UPDATE.

It seems like Junko Junsui is part of the Junsuis-- a group of genetically modified god-like humans. Apparently their linages goes back to forever. A princess went missing... and you can only guess what happened after that. She is rumored to have gone to Germany.

People are called the Circassians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZyAXCZ9Pc
Hint at 1:51.

It's unclear how Japan New Health got their hands on this genetic lineage.

Interesting that Wired Magazine has released a feature on how to go missing, and also has an interactive 'find the author' competition going on...

Patrick?

Yeah, I guess that explains all the architects that Junko added on facebook.

I kinda wish I had more time to keep track of this thing, the fuzzy borders of it are really interesting, more interesting than the primary game, even.

Its very interesting. And its relatively early in the piece. Some linked Youtube videos only had 640 views when I was watching last night. I like the archinect connection...

yeah i already read the william gibson version.
it was ok, but the black ice, man,

the black ice . . .

skinny girl needs a cheese burger.
nuff said.

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