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http://www.themailstrom.net/ (Website from the Year Zero alternate reality game)

Background Text: 1984 by George Orwell

Discovery

The Mailstrom was found on a lithograph given at the listening party to those who fore-ordered Year Zero. The same lithograph is used on the front page of the Year Zero liner notes.

Content

The Mailstrom is a server-hopping program designed to catch emails using a randomly generated decryption key. In this way it evades any attempt to isolate and remove it from the system, while providing those who know of it the possibility of stumbling upon a wreckage/shard combination leading to an email that can help fight the government's abusive control.

Wreckages

See Wreckages

Each page is an email caught by the Mailstrom's decryption net, providing insight into the lives of people living in world of year zero. The first wreckage/shard combination was provided as an example on the Mailstrom information page, and subsequent combinations have been found through audio clips, on buttons handed out at various NIN and AIR related events and in the Year Zero CD case and liner notes.

Connections

The Mailstrom has become the biggest tool to deciphering the state of the world in Year Zero, continuing to be a source of fresh information as new wreckage/shard combinations are found.

Consolidated Mail Systems

The Mailstrom catches emails as they are transmitted to the Consolidated Mail Systems, a government controlled central e-mail server for all e-mail content on the internet. Inherent flaws in the predictability of the CMS allows the Mailstrom to hop servers without ever losing its target and remaining hidden from any attempt to isolate and remove it.

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-[[Image:Yzlitho.jpg|thumb|Lithograph]]
+<nowiki>http://www.themailstrom.net/</nowiki> (Website from the [[Year_Zero#Alternate_Reality_Game|Year Zero alternate reality game]])
-[http://www.themailstrom.com http://www.themailstrom.com]
+Number: [[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.1.1|24.1.1]]
-== Discovery ==
+Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#1984|1984 by George Orwell]]
-The Mailstrom was found on a lithograph given at the listening party to those who pre ordered Year Zero (open the image in the highest resolution possible and look at the top left corner).
+==Discovery==
+The Mailstrom was found on a lithograph given at the listening party to those who fore-ordered ''[[Year Zero]].'' The same lithograph is used on the front page of the ''Year Zero'' liner notes.
-== Website Content ==
+==Content==
+The Mailstrom is a server-hopping program designed to catch emails using a randomly generated decryption key. In this way it evades any attempt to isolate and remove it from the system, while providing those who know of it the possibility of stumbling upon a wreckage/shard combination leading to an email that can help fight the government's abusive control.
-Following a link in the main page leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/info.htm this page] which provides the premise that the Mailstrom is a brute force means of evesdropping on communication that goes through Consolidated, the sole system of internet service available in the near future of Year Zero.
+===Wreckages===
+: ''See [[Wreckages]]''
-On this page we can find the following example login info:
+Each page is an email caught by the Mailstrom's decryption net, providing insight into the lives of people living in world of year zero. The first wreckage/shard combination was provided as an example on the Mailstrom information page, and subsequent combinations have been found through audio clips, on buttons handed out at various NIN and AIR related events and in the ''Year Zero'' CD case and liner notes.
-wreckage: gallows<br/>
+==Connections==
-shard: Y3RG7J
+The Mailstrom has become the biggest tool to deciphering the state of the world in Year Zero, continuing to be a source of fresh information as new wreckage/shard combinations are found.
-This leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/gallows_Y3RG7J.htm this page] discussing informants and a possible link to Trinity Episcopalian, it is unknown if there is another website hidden in the meaning of this email communication at this time.
-At the Minneapolis Listening Party, some buttons were given out. Four buttons have been reported to date, containing another wreackage/shards retrieved from The Mailstrom. The following combination was found on two of them:
-wreckage: gasoline<br/>
-shard: UUu891
-  Button 1 -- Billboard Artwork -- gasoline
-  Button 2 -- Billboard Artwork -- uuu891
-This leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm this page], which is a thread between a mother and representatives at the Bureau of Morality regarding access to her child.
-Other information has been found:
-  Button 3 -- AIR Flag -- sickle
-  Button 4 -- SPEAKTRUTH -- I682fg or L682fg or 1682fg
-However, no matches have been found yet. Probably other buttons found in the future will lead to more combinations.
-References found [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=881760#881760 here] and [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=882024#882024 here].
-== Hidden Numbers ==
-.1.1 on the main page.
-== Hidden Text ==
-A quote from the beginning of 1984 by George Orwell composes the broken text.
-"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
-<br>
-[[Image:1984.jpg]]
+===Consolidated Mail Systems===
+The Mailstrom catches emails as they are transmitted to the [[Consolidated Mail Systems]], a government controlled central e-mail server for all e-mail content on the internet. Inherent flaws in the predictability of the CMS allows the Mailstrom to hop servers without ever losing its target and remaining hidden from any attempt to isolate and remove it.
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