[[Imagehttp:Yzlitho//www.jpg|thumb|Lithograph]]themailstrom.net/
Number: [[http://wwwYear_Zero_Numbers#24.themailstrom1.com http://www1|24.themailstrom1.com1]]
== Discovery ==Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#1984|1984 by George Orwell]]
==Discovery==The Mailstrom was found on a lithograph given at the listening party to those who pre fore-ordered ''[[Year Zero (open ]].'' The same lithograph is used on the image in front page of the highest resolution possible and look at the top left corner)''Year Zero'' liner notes.
== Website Content ==The Mailstrom is a server-hopping program designed to catch emails using a randomly generated decryption key [http://www.themailstrom.com/info.htm]. 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 ===Wreckages===: ''See [[http://www.themailstrom.com/info.htm this pageWreckages]] 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.''
On this Each page we can find is an email caught by the following 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 login info: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>shard: Y3RG7J which 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. == Hidden Numbers Connections==24.1.1 on The Mailstrom has become the main page. == Hidden Text ==A quote from biggest tool to deciphering the beggining state 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 world in an effort to escape the vile windYear Zero, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough continuing to prevent be a swirl source of gritty dust from entering along with him."<br>[[Image:1984fresh information as new wreckage/shard combinations are found.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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