The Backroom • READ BEFORE POSTING - Status of Heists and apps (spoiler free)
This is an attempt to stop multiple threads and questions regarding the heists. Please read before posting something that may have already been covered. Current heists will remain spoiler free here with a link to the spoiler thread.
HEIST 0.5: The Hunt for Hubert - over
The hunt for Hubert began prior to the opening of MacHeist. It involved finding a curious little monkey named Hubert hidden in a trail of various websites, each one linking to the next.
This was intended as a buildup to MH and as a taste for those that were not initially invited to this wonderful world of heisting. The prize at the end was a copy of American History Lux which is still available via the first memo.
This heist is still possible to complete although not using all of the original steps.
Note: as of April '07, the heist memos are no longer viewable.
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Prize: American History Lux
HEIST 1: Apple Internal Hack - over
The first official heist involved sneaking your way into the "Apple Internal" site and figuring out a way to get both pics and specs for the upcoming Apple iPhone. It began with an encoded message that gave you a free copy of the Notepad widget. Notepad is still available and a full translated spoiler can be found here.
You can read about all of the steps involved by checking out the "Official Mission #1 Thread".
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Prizes: Chat Transcript Manager, Assignment Planner, Soulver, Notepad
HEIST 1.5: Split Personalities - over
The mini-heist between 1 and 2 involved the two MH rss feeds. Each feed had half of a complete message. The clues from this eventually led you to a code for the safe that got a free copy of QuickScale. For the full details check out the Mini-Heist thread.
The prize is no longer available.
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Prizes: QuickScale
(Notepad and American History Lux, if you didn't already have them)
HEIST 2: The Edge - over
A gentleman going by "The Edge" that that has the worst website in history apparently "cracked" some Mac apps and left us clues leading to the unlocked builds. After following misspelled words, some morse code and a trip around the (Google) earth you get to blow up a balloon of a funky image.
You can see all of the steps involved here.
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Prizes: Cha-Ching, 1Passwd, $2.00 Discount
HEIST 3: Where's Lisa? - over
Starting off with some pictures that when translated led you on a merry chase Heist 3 was a great one. After pulsing numbers, going backwards (in more ways than one), and much more you get to see red in a brand new way. Now the rescue mission is on for the Directorate.
The official backroom topic is here.
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Prizes: iPulse, DrawIt, $2.00 Discount
HEIST 4: MacUpdate vs. macZOT - over
Hack into MacZOT and send bitchy emails in the name of Brian Ball.
The official memo is here.
The official backroom topic is here.
The official walkthrough topic is here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
HEIST 5: Puzzle - over
Go to various sites to recover puzzle pieces. Read the walkthrough for more info.
The official backroom topic is here.
The official walkthrough topic is here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
That's it for now. If you think I need to add something to this please PM or e-mail me. If you give me details (links to "official" threads or a synopsis similar to mine) I'll credit you in this post and you'll have my gratitude 
(not much I know but I can hope).
So far Nollid and shadownight have helped quite a bit with this when I've been too slow. Thanks a lot fellows!!!
Last edited by shadownight (April 2, 2007 11:30 pm)
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
Ænima: Take a Bow Sir... You have set things straight for the newbies... Well Done!
And a hardy Thank You and Shout Out to you as well for I feel I speak for all the otehr Mac Heads here that this type of stickie was needed.
Yeh im getting so annoyed with the . . .
"Macrumors wont accept my photos"
&
"Ill give you the first 2 heist codes for free here!"
this is just too much . . .
How am I going to build up my post count now when I don't have to set newbies straight anymore?
Let's try this...
well you will just have to do the same as the rest of us:
1. Try and help do the current and next heist!
2. Post useless comments, like this one, that don't really help anyone at all!
this is just too much . . .
You did it Ænima. This is great. Really helpful for all.
Bravo to the good mod Ænima!
Thanks for all the support! If any of you think of something to make this sticky better please let me know either by PM or just by posting it here.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
Ænima wrote:
This heist is now broken and cannot be followed from beginning to end.
I beg to differ.
Sweet.
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.
Anyway, I don't want this turning into a Hubert discussion so if someone has the FULL list of following Hubert please PM me the info. If it's still completely doable I'll change the sticky.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
It's great that someone is trying to stop multiple threads about past heists...thanks much Ænima!
It's sad how theAmazon is slowly falling apart.
I thought Phill died...
Avatar comps. of Leo Mancini (leomancini.net).
Ænima wrote:
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.
oh.. I thought it started at whoishubert, but now that I think about it, you're right.
Sweet.
Very nice and clear.
Now I have to decide between wading through all 24 pages of the zotadmin thread, or waiting to check for the synopsis here.
wph wrote:
Now I have to decide between wading through all 24 pages of the zotadmin thread, or waiting to check for the synopsis here.
It's only 12 pages for me, I set MH to display 50 posts per page 
That is an extremely long thread though and a lot of it is just people posting things that others already found.
I've taken to just reading the most recent couple to see if it sounds like anything new has happened. Also the OP is trying to keep the first post updated.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
I've maxed it out at 75 (If there was a higher option I'd take it). But it's still 8 PAGES. That's ridiculous.
Sweet.
wow...but has anything come out of it yet?
Nice waiting for 2.5
---Keep on Running the race...
Ænima wrote:
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at?
As I recall, it started here: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/03/who-is-hubert/
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jakej720 wrote:
Ænima wrote:
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at?
As I recall, it started here: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/03/who-is-hubert/
Was there any real announcement? I think they just put it up, and people started all sorts of different places, leading to whoishubert.com and eventually the end.
yeh i contacted the guy who made hubert and he said he was first posted on the tuaw site, there are two versions of hubert. The one on http://www.whoishubert.com
and number 2 is on http://www.whoishubert.com/donttouchme
this is just too much . . .
this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...
-D
sushiman wrote:
this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...
There are plenty of threads about the whoishubert site, but I doubt it'll be used in the future. Every heist has had it's own crop of new sites just for the week.
thanks for clearing up, great job
thanks for the synopsis. i was getting worried that i was totally lost. at least i am not alone.
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