Sup /x/,

Was at a cybersecurity conference last Sunday, and these weird cards were fucking everywhere. In the conference rooms, on the tables, even taped to the mirrors in the bathrooms.

My first thought was it was some elaborate CTF for one of the sponsors. I asked around, but nobody is claiming them. Not the sponsors, not the event organizers. Nothing. They're playing dumb or they genuinely don't know.

Here's the rundown of the card:

FRONT:

Text is "satiroV" (Veritas backwards).
Binary string: 01100101 01100111 01101111 01101110 01110101 01101101 01110001 01110101 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101111

This leads to the domain: https://egonumquampereo.com/
It's Latin for "ego numquam pereo" / "I will never die". Fucking creepy.

BACK:

Morse code: . -- .-- --- .-.. .-.. --- ..-.
Translates to EMWOLLOF... which is FOLLOW ME backwards.

There's also this weird symbol, looks like some pictogram or an Asian character.

The hexagonal background has some brighter dots, can't make out a pattern.

I'm pretty shit at these kinds of puzzles, but this feels like the start of a deep rabbit hole. I want to know who's behind this.

Have at it, anons.

>>40505311 (OP)
The string on the website, according to copilot, is a base64 encoded string that translates to "orangemackerel" I thought it was the end of a link, but it's not familiar idk what site I would plug it into.

>>40505311 (OP)
There is a YouTube channel with the same name, has one video posted 4 days ago, a recording of hackertyper.com and a robot voice reading off numbers.
/watch?v=qmBN2eOLmKE

>>40505543
found this https://egonumquampereo.com/orangemackerel/

>>40505311 (OP)
There is a note in Italian, when I inspect element the website, in English "I also added the indivisible space to the list to vary the "empty" effects bit." Nothing to the note itself but the guy or group behind this may be Italian.

>>40505568
Good thinking. This is interesting

>>40505568
>orangemackerel
"Orange fish" makes sense as something related to immortality.
Do mackerels in particular connect to anything?

>>40505311 (OP)

>>40505311 (OP)
> I'm pretty shit at these kinds of puzzles

Then consider a career outside of cybersecurity.

>>40505660
Ah.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mackerel
>identical with Old French maquerel "pimp, procurer, broker, agent, intermediary"
>from Old Frisian mek "marriage,"

>>40505669
You think solving a puzzle like this has anything to do with cybersec?

https://mark-wilkinson.co.uk/fish/

I saw people getting pretty far on reddit but I don't want to spoil here.

>>40505672
>>40505660


Just a heads up, orange mackerel is a red herring loul

>>40505702
Completely irrelevant.

>>40505713
>>40505660
That and "goldfish/ orange fish" is a reference to prisoners since housing units are called "tanks".

>>40505725
Is it?

>>40505543
description of video:
Ceases cipher with a 3 Shift:

User: is gatsu43vr
Pass is DoNotHateHumans.

>>40505311 (OP)
>Binary code (L33t h4xx0r tier encryption)
>Edgy "HiDdEn" messages (Its either "Help me" or "Follow Me" 99% of the time)
>AI generated images
>Morse code (LMAO, zoomies really think it is some next level encryption that takes 200 IQ)
Yup, yet another cringe ass ARG.

>>40506152
Yup, another trashy retarded faggot ARG

>>40505311 (OP)
>Text is "satiroV" (Veritas backwards).
Uh...

>>40509576
OP samefagging to explain his super complicated ARG

>>40505311 (OP)
OP made this.
Had AI analyze his text.
The odds OP made this are near 100% per my AI.

>>40511147
Oh, uh. Hmmm

>>40505742
This, and in prison mackerel fish cans, or just "macks", go for about $1 a piece reliably no matter most economic wind. Given that a prisoner's wage resets at the end of the month, keeping macks in your cell is an edible way to save money and have something commonly traded on hand.
Still, the red herring anon >>40505713 may be on to something. Perhaps the red herring is that we are observing ourselves in a prison, which is a tiring thought loop shared by many who do not evolve.

Dunno how relevant this is but that "Asian character" on the left is 芋. It means potato in Japanese.

bump

>>40513784
>Pass is DoNotHateHumans.

>>40511147
when did this same androgynous souless artstyle come into being anons it is offputting and uncanny i really have always been bothered by this shit

>>40505311 (OP)
It's an arg of your own creation. Please go away.

>>40516998
Call it 2010, corporate opaque does well for keeping things bland, since people want bland. Everyone wants bland. Walks of life you haven't even thought to hear of all want bland, the consumer vote is in and all of it is bland bland bland bland bland bland bland.

You're welcome

>>40505672

That's Joan of Arc holding the binary that says orangemackerel so the French thing works

>>40505695
most of cybersec is updating chrome and reading cve's then following step by step directions to remediate it. While trying to not break all your shit. Most cybersec is just social engineering and retards just clicking dumbass links and shit. Or the shit you cant do anything about because they hacked a vendors servers and you are downloading a root kit update and now ur fucked. I think its more about just accepting the risk and being ready to fail over to backups and maybe lose a day of work or something. cybersec is getting so fucking dumb. real cybersec requires a complete redesign of compute architecture. Having secure systems isnt what states want anyways. China stole all our f-35 plans. Some how we can innovate make tons of awesome tech but we dont know how to protect it at all. What a cohencidence

>>40505695
oops this >>40520676
wasnt meant for you, it wasnt meant for that other fag

>>40505311 (OP)
Pretending this fake and gay bullshit was even true, why would you engage with random shit at a meetup full of fucking hackers? Much less go to any unverified website probably loaded with every malware and glowie backdoor dark money can buy? You are like the type of idiot that would pick up a flash drive and shove it straight into his laptop and by transitive property, too stupid to even engage with your own ARG.

>>40505311 (OP)
So you're shit at cybersecurity and want 4chan to help. Ffs

>>40505311 (OP)
>>40505522
dude with the username "orangemackerel" wants you to follow him, simple.

>>40505311 (OP)
A hacker created them, but he's like Lex Luthor level intelligent with a furious streak like Judge Holden.
https://youtu.be/oWgzeN0Baz0

>>40523522
ur microphone is broadcasting everything you say to redneck ham operators. cyber security is a joke and i dont get why leaving out the last 5 letters is security is helpful. I am getting real tired of all these overly abbreviated terms that serve no purpose and actually make language worse which in turn affects my thinking.

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-flaw-eavesdropping-laptop-smart-speaker.html

>>40505706
So this thread isn't /x/?