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Idk but I found this
https://github.com/OOOO00000000OOOO/OOOO00000000OOOO/blob/%E2%A0%80/%E2%9B%8B%E2%88%A3%F0%9F%9F%97%E2%88%A3%F0%96%A2%8C%E2%88%A3%F0%9F%9F%97%E2%88%A3%E2%9B%8B/%E2%88%A3%E2%9D%81%E2%88%A3%E2%8A%9E%E2%88%A3%E2%9C%A2%F0%9F%9D%8A%E2%9B%8B%E2%9C%BB%E2%9B%8B%F0%9F%9D%8A%E2%9C%A2%E2%88%A3%E2%8A%9E%E2%88%A3%E2%9D%81%E2%88%A3/%EA%93%A8%D0%98%EA%9F%BC.%F0%96%A3%A0%E2%9A%AA%F0%92%BE%A8%E1%97%B1%E1%97%B4%E1%97%9D%E2%B5%94%F0%93%87%B3%C8%8A%CC%AE%C7%80%E2%9D%81%C7%80%E1%99%81%E1%97%B1%E1%97%B4%E2%A7%B2%E2%9A%AA%F0%94%97%A2%E2%9A%AA%F0%9F%9E%8B%E2%9A%AA%F0%94%97%A2%E2%9A%AA%E2%A7%B2%E1%97%B1%E1%97%B4%E1%99%81%C7%80%E2%9D%81%C7%80%C8%8A%CC%AE%F0%93%87%B3%E2%B5%94%E1%97%9D%E1%97%B1%E1%97%B4%F0%92%BE%A8%E2%9A%AA%F0%96%A3%A0.PNG
I also found this https://ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.carrd.co/
This is almost certainly a way to use github as a backup system, but it's also the output of someone who does alot with white/black/grey imagery, glitch art, and is OBSESSED with symmetry as other commenters have said
This appears to be their social media presence:
http://twitter.com/WHITEBALACLAVA
http://instagr.am/WHITE_BALACLAVA
http://fb.com/1453261601638473
http://youtube.com/channel/UCCLaIxZrTWkBhp_kWXUwfTQ
http://soundcloud.com/WBALACLAVA ·
http://vk.com/club133070869
http://i.imgbox.com/wuBm89hW.png
http://youtube.com/channel/UC-bPHywwCRhyM61m8cp-zbg/VIDEOS
http://instagr.am/PU.DEHCTIP_AVALCALAB.ETIHW
http://twitter.com/AVALCALAB_ETIHW
http://twitter.com/ERISED_TIFENEB
http://youtube.com/channel/UCLLr-AXjqxUHn0eSssph8cg
Most of the links don't work anymore, so they probably saw this and felt doxed.
they actually didn't when I grabbed them either but I kept them for posterity. Important to note some of these things are almost 10 years old, so there's certainly the rot of not maintaining them, free services pruning, etc. That being said, it's likely why they duplicate their 7GB backup repo all over the place
Oh boy I would not be surprised if there was some kinda ARG buried in all this lol.
😂 what is this person's goal in life?
Their goal? Can't say. They clearly have a drive to make art, especially mathematical fractal binary minimalist art. Whether they also are actually producing malware or are just trying to piggyback as many services as possible to archive and keep their stuff online is another question. The vast majority of what I saw in my quick recon of their online presence was mostly glitch art/unicode/ascii art, blender stuff, fractals, web based d3 animations, that sort of thing. That being said, as you said, they appear to have gone to great lengths to be anonymous, I've only found a couple of raw IPs in there that mirror their stuff.
That being said, it seems they also clone their backups to anyone who hosts a free forgejo/gitea instance:
Yeah. Just found that they're using this email address: OOOOOOOOOOOOOO@MURENA.IO. murena.io gives them 1GB of storage for free. Like you said, they appear to be attempting to keep a backup of a lot of data using third-party services, I'm guessing so that, in theory, even after their death, this data will be available... forever?
Their repositories are really something, and the commits seem to only happen in bursts, I expected them to do a few commits every day, instead it's like 10 days a year with 1700+ commits total.
But I wouldn't assume they are conventionally malicious, more like a ~~paperclip~~ storage optimiser
Agreed, leads me to think they have some kind of script that rewrites filenames and directory names to be symbolic/symmetric and they run it manually rather than on some automated schedule. Then by storing it as a git repo they can find open git hosting and just mirror it there (the lastest copy I saw was like 7 or 8 GB so definitely not tiny, but also not enough to take down your average self hosting project)
I don’t know what their vibe is but I love it, we need more people like this in the world
i wish i were a tenth this fucking fearlessly cool