Misc

Zipcar License Plates

On the 2nd of February weird combinations of numbers and letters started showing up in the comms. It was later discovered they were Zipcar license plates.

This seemed to have been caused by Hubert Farlowe the orginal cause of the Zipcar deaddrops. He posted “So if someone wants me I'l be hiding out, basking in the knowledge that I helped the masses ;)”G+ post. Later it was revealed that the origin of the leak was an Edward Faulle.

Over 1000 codes come out. You can find them here

Thomas Greanias

Thomas Greanias seems to be an author that has some connection with Hank Johnson and Conrad Yeats.

He has published in the past some posts in his own website that seem to relate to Niantic and the story

Ingress Island Map

Conrad Yeats and Hank Johnson spotted in Cape Verde article had this passcode posted in plain view -2sc4nianticx8r3z.
According to Thomas this the result of a decoding from the Ingress Island map done by some Resistance members

The Alignment: Ingress (Q&A)

Since the publication of his book The Alignment: Ingress Thomas has had ocasionally sessions of Q&A in google+.
Answering correctly to the questions he makes gives the possibility to choose between an activation code or an one use passcode.
These one use passcode have some unique characteristics:

They have a new format. [letter][letter][letter][number][number][word][number][number][letter][letter]

examples
CRA44FIELD65AM
LCK99ISPIRARE93WB
WAK97SHAPER12IU
KIC99HUMAN30LJ

The letters are capitals unlike what was seen before
The resonators and busters adjust to the player's level. Example a lvl 4 player will get lvl 4 resonators and busters
They are one use only.

Hamburg Transcript

This is a transcript from this audio, Shared in G+
Original Link

Hidden Info

On the bottom of the document you can see
239 221 175 253 188 203 218 205 188 207 174 221 254 207 238 207
Decimal to hex
EF DD AF FD BC CB DA CD BC CF AE DD FE CF EE CF
Create a 6 by 6 grid like this

ABCDEF \\

A ABCDEF
B GHIJKL
C MNOPQR
D STUVWX
E YZ0123
F 456789

Use the string you had as coordinates (row, then column)

3vf7inspirev8r2r

Jim Bowie Letter

This is believed to be Jim Bowie Letter that was penned shortly before the 13-day Battle of the Alamo in February 1836
Original Link

Original Link

13 Magnus and the Alignment

Some hints were given by Thomas that the alignment and 13Magnus could be related in this page.

Ingress: Global Intel - Dec, 19, 2013 - #13MAGNUS Ends

The weekly newsletter sent on the 19 of December has 2 interesting things.
One is the message from Hank

Am not terminated.

In Motion.

Arrive Germany.

Not until Saturday.

The other is in the source code of the mail - <img alt=3D“Hank Johnson z535pknah4aut3 Nomad” =

Hidden Info: Using the first letters of the message you get AntIMAGNuS

Reverse z535pknah4aut3 to get 3tua4hankp535z

Hint water website

On the 4th of March hint water posted

RT @ingress: Passcodes for XM, Res, and Xmps at your Level under select @hintwater caps. +1 Wjfx Tpvsdf: http://bit.ly/MLFRuw

The link leads to http://www.drinkhint.com/blog/its-time-to-move-with-hint-ingress/