Echo-64

At about On June 9, 2017 an advertisement was played on the Seychelles Project-WT radio station (SBC Paradise FM) which referenced a service called Echo Software and the Echo-64.com website.



Ad Transcript

Visiting the site brought people to this screen BEGIN SECOND SEQUENCE ... Initialization may take up to 24 hours.

The site was activated on June 10, 2017 On every page at the bottom right the text 84.190.188 leads to the youtube video - Franka Potente - Believe , making this the third music video in the ARG.



Homepage
The homepage has a brief description of the company and services. It also has the puzzle for the second sequence.

Search function
Doing a search for any term in the website it reveals a long string of hex code with a piece of decimal on top

112 97 115 116 101

This translates to paste.

Pasting the hex block in a software like Notepad++ or Hex Fiend, reveals a gif image.



This in turns leads to a pastebin link with the id z1Rgxi5L 54 68 65 72 65 20 69 73 20 6e 6f 74 68 69 6e 67 20 65 69 74 68 65 72 20 67 6f 6f 64 20 6f 72 20 62 61 64 2c 20 62 75 74 20 74 68 69 6e 6b 69 6e 67 20 6d 61 6b 65 73 20 69 74 20 73 6f

This translated from hex says

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so Which is a quote from Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.

Echo Contact Information
Hovering over the Echo logo (top left) brings up an info contact box. Calling the number +1 (408) 703-2077 one can hear a pre recorded message Echo is in transition and therefore cannot accept new input. When we achieve our predetermined finite state, we'll take new input and get back to you. Thank you.

A message of maximum 5 minutes could be left then.

Our Team
The our team page has the photos of 7 members. They all are stock photos
 * Ivan Greshnev
 * Mikhail Regison
 * Gerry Mishrason
 * Caroline Anderson-Smith
 * Patricia Gorevsky
 * Jeremy Elways
 * Paris O'Keefe

History
In the History page there is a reference in 2015 to a factious company and Sesame credit

We partnered with Chinese company Alibabbi to utilize their new cloud computing infrastructure, improving our service tenfold overnight and introducing Sesame Credit support for all users. This a reference to the real company Alibaba group.

Careers page
In the source code of the careers page players found a link to a video about a visit to the dropbox offices. This ended up revealing itself to be a leftover from the theme template used.