What in the world is this??

I don't know what this is or what it means but I'm guessing it's not good
Thoughts?
www.thecleverest.com...

reply to post by Skippy1138


what is it? I didn't let the countdown finish...

reply to post by makinit66


That's the thing-the countdown just goes down to zero and that's it. But putting a countdown timer resembling the timer on an explosive device with Arabic-looking writing over it with no context- I just can't figure what the point is....Is someone trying to send a message or someone just had too much time on their hands?

Originally posted by Skippy1138
reply to post by makinit66

 

That's the thing-the countdown just goes down to zero and that's it. But putting a countdown timer resembling the timer on an explosive device with Arabic-looking writing over it with no context- I just can't figure what the point is....Is someone trying to send a message or someone just had too much time on their hands?

OMG thanks for bringing this up, I seen this over a year ago, this is all it does, it definitely freaks me out.

reply to post by Skippy1138


did you try translating the msg yet? I'll try now.


copy/paste does not work on that link...

Lol well I decompiled the swf and there nothing inside it that says anything - and it doesnt do anything odd..

It's just a counter to 0, and then it flashes...

The arabic is an image so I doubt you'll translate it, unless you can speak it..

Ok so I clicked that little link at the bottom that says visit the cleverest for more fun, and its some blog, but when I did a who is on it, I got this message.

WHOIS information for thecleverest.com :

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.networksolutions.com]
[Querying whois.networksolutions.com]
[whois.networksolutions.com]
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Whois Query: thecleverest.com
YOUR IP address is 198.171.79.36
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Reason Code: IE

another thing I found,

What a strange thread on this subject, It needs to be translated, its in spanish i think, I dont know but I translated with bing and I dont know if its bings mistakes but a strange thread on this countdown.
also this thread was dated since 2007 so this countdown has been up atleast since then.

www.foromtb.com...

Oh, wow!!! I just found out what it was. It's a "joke" (disturbing) for when someone opens your laptop at a security check point, or to sit on a bus with your laptop open. It's supposed to scare the bejesus out of people. I clicked on the link at the bottom, then did a search on the blog for "countdown" and this is what came up (with a link to the same link in the OP):

thecleverist.com

Display this animation full-screen when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway. **Under no circumstances should ANYBODY use the previous animation when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway, or in any other manner during which the display of the animation could be interpreted as a hostile act. Please defer all legal action to Penn & Teller, who gave me the idea in their 1997 book, “How to Play in Traffic.”

Originally posted by nunya13
Oh, wow!!! I just found out what it was. It's a "joke" (disturbing) for when someone opens your laptop at a security check point, or to sit on a bus with your laptop open. It's supposed to scare the bejesus out of people. I clicked on the link at the bottom, then did a search on the blog for "countdown" and this is what came up (with a link to the same link in the OP):

thecleverist.com

Display this animation full-screen when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway. **Under no circumstances should ANYBODY use the previous animation when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway, or in any other manner during which the display of the animation could be interpreted as a hostile act. Please defer all legal action to Penn & Teller, who gave me the idea in their 1997 book, “How to Play in Traffic.”

OMG what a sick joke!!, and good job finding this out!!

reply to post by hapablab


Yeah, pretty sick joke. Can you imagine someone coming upon this link in a sensitive area? Should the thread title have a warning or something? I dunno...

WOw, it's a joke guys, it's not going to kill people...

Lol

I did a tineye on the arabic and found the same sites, but really, it's funny if you ask me.

reply to post by nunya13


Well unless you already have it set up to display this right as you are going through a "security checkpoint", I really don't think there needs to be a "warning" in the thread title.....
Nice work tracking down what it is though...

Personally, I would never attempt to pull off the ruse, but just imagining it makes me giggle.

Is that so wrong?

yeah i seen this somwhere and it said to open your laptop lean your head back and close your eyes and scare people with it.

reply to post by Skippy1138


I know that. I meant anyone sitting in a public place. On a bus, train, subway? Even in just a coffee shop.

ETA: I guess it's not that big a deal, but i can't help but imagine the wrong person seeing this on someones computer an flipping out. It was just a suggestion, though. i don't care if you do or not.

reply to post by Skippy1138


It is meant to be used as a prank.Someone sent me the email a while ago.
The instructions that came with it:

You sit in your plane seat
You open the labtop and go to the page
You pretend that you pray
The person next to you takes a look at the countdown and freaks out.

I don't know if it's funny,but it can seriously freak out a lot of people.

I've seen some dumb ideas, but this one is pretty high on the list...

Wow that's hillarious... in all honesty though it'd probably get you shot if someone saw it on the subway. but i bet it would be brilliant if you left it in a hotel lobby to quicky go pee or something ^_^