GKNOVA6: “Classified Announcement SOMD” – New Code!

April 9, 2010 By Nick Butler

We posted an article a little earlier about the second transmission that appeared on GKNOVA6.com. The new video included a code that has since been deciphered as “Classified Announcement Sold,” however a commenter pointed out in our article it may very well be “Classified Announcement SOMD.” We have that classified announcement after the break.

The commenter, Justin, points out that we actually had the wrong answer to the code – off by one letter. Instead of “Sold” it’s “Somd”. That lead him to SOMD.com, a website for Southern Maryland (which is where the packages were sent from, coincidentally), basically used for local news, event planning and so on. The announcement was within this site. If you go to the site, click “Classifieds” > “Announcements” > “PSAs” > And then you’ll find it.

The classified announcement reads:

NOVA
Posted by: Eve Reign on Friday, 9 April 2010, at 3:20 p.m.
LWLXRMSYWN.GVVOXXPXBVOKTPXAVSFTMBK -AONTHLRDOF.DHXSWEJHCQSQFWTCZUBCAM
LWLXRMSYWN.LRDOFUINENYMGNPBMSYWNHAM, -YFTTXEWPGJL.XVORLUINEASPTCZUBJWGILVF
LWLXRBGG.CCGRNYMGNAEMOWXAAGMSYWNGVVO, -GCYSRZYKXR.YBCBGCYGVVOXDOKSWEJUINE
LWLXRMSYWN.XVORLCCGRAONTHLVFCWKYG, -FMFWCMXIMX.RTLHGPBWTMBKNSNTZBIM
XXPXSQFW.HYORVPAKYHAMCAMMBKAONTH, MUZOWHYORV.CAMIGRAONTHLRDOFHYORVOAVBM
You can find me at the Cheeping River. It’s near the Cheering Viper.
It still hasn’t been cracked – why Justin turned to us – so get working! We’ll be posting updates on this article as the come in, and make sure you follow me on twitter for the latest.

UPDATE 10:05PM: MrToasty deciphered the code using the key “sputnik”:

THREEEIGHT.NINEFIVEONESEVENNINESIX -SEVENSEVEN.ONEFOURSIXFIVEEIGHTSIX

THREEEIGHT.SEVENFOURFOURTWOEIGHTONE, -ONEZEROFOUR.EIGHTFOURSIXEIGHTZEROSIX

THREETWO.NINEFOURTHREEEIGHTEIGHTNINE, -ONEZEROSIX.FOURONENINEFOURFOURFOUR

THREEEIGHT.EIGHTNINESEVENSIXSEVEN, -SEVENSEVEN.ZEROTHREESIXFIVEFIVE

FIVEFIVE.SEVENFIVEONESIXSIXSEVEN, THREESEVEN.SIXONESEVENSEVENSEVENEIGHT

So, that’s:
38.951796, -77.146586 – CIA Headquarters
38.744281, -104.846806 – NORAD
32.943889, -106.419444 – White Sands (Missile Complex)
38.89767, -77.03655 – White House
55.751667, 37.617778 – Ivanovskaya ploshchad, Russian Federation

UPDATE: While reviewing my site’s referrers (people who’ve linked to MovieViral.com) I found an interesting link. I should point out I remember seeing it BEFORE we had this code, but thought nothing of it at the time (assumed it was a college website). My guess is that the site, SOMD, was contacted before had inquiring whether or not they (marketers) could use the site for a code. My best guess is they included a link to my article comparing what games this campaign may be for in that inquiry. Here’s the link that referred to MovieViral.com: http://help.somd.com/admin/main.php?action=view_ticket&id=55719-7009040544. Here’s how they submitted the help ticket.

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103 Comments

  1. MrToasty,
    I understand you brute-forced the key, but do you have any idea how they key might have been deduced given the information?

  2. What’s the last part of the TV message? I hear it as “You can see the whole spectrum”

  3. i thought I heard “inconceivable spectrum” but listening to it again i believe you’re right.

  4. Just updated the article:
    UPDATE: While reviewing my site’s referrers (people who’ve linked to MovieViral.com) I found an interesting link. I should point out I remember seeing it BEFORE we had this code, but thought nothing of it at the time (assumed it was a college website). My guess is that the site, SOMD, was contacted before had inquiring whether or not they (marketers) could use the site for a code. My best guess is they included a link to my article comparing what games this campaign may be for in that inquiry. Here’s the link that referred to MovieViral.com: http://help.somd.com/admin/main.php?action=view_ticket&id=55719-7009040544. Here’s how they submitted the help ticket.

  5. @Shaner…. It could be worked out… I had gotten as far as figuring our that the key to the cipher was 7 characters long… I was in the process of trying to work out the shifts when the actual key was posted

  6. doesnt this seem like something kojima would do i mean just look at what happened with the peace walker secret site

  7. Maybe it has something to do with Price’s location.

    After he killed Gen. Shepard in MW2 ending, they all went to a location where “a friend was waiting for them”.

    Maybe the general was not working alone.

    -Maybe I read too much Clancy 😛

  10. Hi, first time posting but this got my attention. We can safely say this is treyarch. Thus a cod game so I doubt this would be about the storyline and you can just wiki, cold war, and sit through hours of events and timelines of the cold war. this viral is probally about a zombie mode with the game. they started the cod 5 story in verruckt. A bit late and never finished it after der riese. So i think they will actually make a story line with this one. The same goes for this if it is a purely zombies only game, which I doubt as CoD games thrive on there mmultiplayer games. And by multiplayer I mean PvP type TDM etc

  11. went to http://blog.somd.com/ and scroled down to see 1-888-612-0003 and then select option 3 to talk to a actual person and when i asked them anout the website they said they “can’t talk about it” but when i mentioned the code and started naming of the place name (cia, norad…) he said to use google and see where that took me.

  13. On the SOMD website, it was posted by someone named Eve Reign, someone should figure out who it is

  14. I dont know if this has significance, buuuut the second light on the website, i listened to it. At first, I heard NOD1969, as the first few characters, but on multiple times listening, Its Nov 1969, Also the year the US started the Vietnamese War. Coincedence? I think not!