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[[Imagehttp:Yzlitho//www.jpg|thumb|Lithograph]]themailstrom.net/

Number: [[http://wwwYear_Zero_Numbers#24.themailstrom1.com http://www1|24.themailstrom1.com1]]

==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 shard: Y3RG7J 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.==Connections== At the Minneapolis Listening Party, some buttons were given out. Four buttons have been reported to date, containing another wreckage/shard retrieved from The Mailstrom. The following combination was found on two of them:  wreckage: gasoline shard: UUu891 This leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm this page], which is a thread between a mother and representatives at has become the Bureau of Morality regarding access biggest tool to her child. Those who attended deciphering the San Diego listening party obtained three more codes. There were two buttons that matched each other:  wreckage: tumbrel shard: AD44Us This login code leads you to [http://www.themailstrom.com/tumbrel_ad44us.htm this page], which is apparently spam or junk mail. One program advertised is CitizenKing Max, which helps people boost their citizen points, which are needed in order to have an "Administration-approved character." The next program discussed is called ChildAssist, which is approved by the US Bureau of Morality, and it helps parents improve their child-rearing score. After each program is advertised, something called the NeroMod GX, is discussed. This devise can be used to modify any [[Nerochip]] of the third, fourth or fifth-C generation. Also it says that the NeroMod GX is the most preferred modification device by most celebrities and heads of state, implying that all citizens have the [[Nerochip]]. As a sales pitch, any citizen that purchases one of the programs advertised gets a free NeroMod GX. Chicago listening party attendees received buttons that contained the following codes:  wreckage: wretched shard: Ypq2QQ This login leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/wretched_Ypq2QQ.htm], a letter of confessional from a soldier to a pastor. The soldier talks about his station in the Middle East and his growing aggravation with his surrounding and himself. Soldiers are given pills to keep them "hopped up." The author goes on to tell of how a boy, apparently working for the enemy, reported their position with a hidden GPS unit on his bike, so the soldier shot him. Yet he didn't shoot him, the pills did. Pills are creating a loss of free-will. Also, this e-mail leads us to believe that other terrorist attacks (or climate phenomena) has caused the abandoning of other US cities like Detroit, New Orleans and St. Louis. Also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%BCksekova Yüksekova] is a province world in TurkeyYear Zero, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmia Urmia] is a district and city in northern Iran. Dallas attendees received buttons that matched continuing to the following code:  wreckage: fratricide shard: 774HZx This will lead you to [http://www.themailstrom.com/fratricide_774HZx.htm this page], be a letter sent out to a group source of people. The group is likely rebelious and illegal indicated by abbreviations of names and a note to have the e-mail deleted fresh information as soon as it is read. The sender, Dorothy, gives information about a future meeting that will be held at Stonewall. Dorothy then speaks about to members of the organization C.U., who has just been arrested, and S.K., who's father is in the hospital from dehydration and has had his citizenship account "re-established". This is followed by a quote from the bible Matthew 5:44. The letter also includes the declaration, "God is the God of all." Direct quote of Matthew 5:44 (King James Version): ''But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.'' (source obtained from [http://bible.cc/matthew/5-44.htm here].) new wreckage: wetwork shard: c276e4 This will take you to [http://www.themailstrom.com/wetwork_c276e4.htm here], a response to a question by an unknown individual from an unknown individual. The page lists ways to absorb liquids into the body without ingesting parepin. Methods included are: collect rainwater, drink milk, avoid icecubes, and drink only mexican beer.  wreckage: bitter shard: BGtg57 This entry will lead you to [http://www.themailstrom.com/bitter_BGtg57.htm this site], it is an advertisement to hunt the last black bear from a company or organization called Omega Man, to someone with the name Bob. It is stated in the advertisement that to become an Omega Man you must kill the last remaining animal of a species, so far there have been Omega Men of Lynx, Snow Leopards, and Orangutangs. == Buttons == At the Year Zero listening parties, buttons have become available that have codes for either the wreckage or the shard. Here is the complete list of buttons. New finds combinations are highlighted. {| border="1" style="border: solid 1px #cccccc; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%" ||-style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-weight: bold"| Button Detail || Wreckage || Shard|-| Robot Head (wreckage) / Molotov Cocktail held by robot (shard) || gasoline || UUu891|-| AIR Flag (white on green) || sickle || <em>not seen</em>|-| SPEAKTRUTH || <em>not seen</em> || I682fg <em>or</em> L682fg <em>or</em> 1682fg|-| YOU HAVE A VOICE || spore || <em>not seen</em>|-| YOU WILL BE HEARD / AIR Flag (white on red) || bitter || BGtg57|-style="background-color: #f0f0f0"| ART IS RESISTANCE & AIR flags (black on red) || slander || <em>not seen</em>|-| Police Baton || <em>not seen</em> || blE34c <em>or</em> b1E34c <em>or</em> biE34c|-| <em>something to do with police on billboard</em> || <em>not seen</em> || <em>not seen</em>|-| Angel's Hand with Sickle (wreckage) / Angel (shard) || wretched || Ypq2QQ|-| AIR Flag (from mural, <strong>more detail on appearance, please!</strong>) || tumbrel || AD44Us|-style="background-color: #f0f0f0"| Speakergun held by robot (from AIR site background image)|| <em>not seen</em> || tP366K|-| AIR Flag (white on black) || <em>not seen</em> || vC99iT|-| AIR Flag (red on white) || infarction || <em>not seen</em>|-style="background-color: #f0f0f0"| AIR Flag (red on black) / AIR Flag (white on grey) || fratricide || 774HZx|-style="background-color: #f0f0f0"| AIR Flag (grey on white) / AIR Flag (black on red) || wetwork || c276E4|-style="background-color: #f0f0f0"| AIR Flag (white on blue) || pliers || <em>not seen</em>|} == Hidden Numbers ==24.1.1 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:1984found.jpg]]