im from chicago and this is spooky as fuck

I'm legitimately worried about this. This is just waaaay too spooky to brush off. Indeed, word needs to be spread now.

That's what she- nevermind you're right. We need to spread this around

I know everyone wants to be safe... but shouldn't we all be considering what will be the RIGHT thing to do when/if something were to happen? Or will we all just run the other way?

16 days later...check the link. This guy must have gotten sick of the misconeptions lol.

I'm far removed from the Boston tragedy and also Chicago but if we start living in fear aren't we letting them (whoever they are) win?

This is how I think we need to respond to threats and attacks.

I agree that this is something to be aware of but life has to go on.

I hope it is someone just trolling. If it's not I hope the authorities now have enough heads up to deal with it.

The biggest question I have is why make the website? The guy who made the post about this on /r/wtf said he was pm'd the address. Someone is obviously trying to spread the word about it.

"They" might be the resistance in the coming revolution.

"They" might be unstable but be on our side so to speak - enemy of our enemy phrase. At the very least hey might get the ball rolling for real change.

That worked really well when the US teamed up with the Taliban in the late 80's/early 90's...

sarcasm

Woah they changed the website!

Someone on 4chan already figured out the location of registration and company that owns it, it has something to do with ending up homeless, it also coincides with some new help the homeless initiative in Chicago.

The WHOIS for the website comes up as John Q. Public being the owner of the site. A fake name, obviously. The number and address match the Lincoln Park Community Shelter.

More info: http://whois.net/whois/itcouldhappentoallof.us

Sadly it seeems that helps us very slightly, if at all.

Actually, the wiki claims it is commonly used by police as an opposite of perp, didn't know that before..

Dude, this is some freaky shit. Have the FBI or CIA are notified of this?

multiple times, yes.

blank stare Sir, everything is under control.

"BUT IM TRYING TO TELL..."

blank stare Sir. Please return to your seat. Everything is under control.

Welcome to the FBI and every other 3 letter organization that I can think of.

Damnit PBS, get your shit together. 8c)

Correction - I said the Haymarket affair took place 3 miles due south of the address that this website is registered to, the shelter at 600 West Fullerton Pkwy. Looking up the route now.

Edit: The run starts at 1420 Museum Campus Drive which is on the riverfront, about 3 miles southeast of Haymarket Square. Can't find the route posted anywhere.

The CPD actually has 2 memorials: one at Haymarket, and the other - you guessed it - right opposite Soldier Field just feet from the start line of the Chicago Police Department Memorial Run on May 4.

I couldn't find route information, but I'd bet the CPD's Memorial Race would go past the other big Cop memorial in their city... Shit's scary, especially being in Chicago.

Edit: The Address for the Gold Star CPD Memorial is 1420 South Museum Campus

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I'm assuming we've all seen the new message on the website, explaining it?

"Due to the recent events that took place during the Boston Marathon and the subsequent current state of fear that has spread across America, we are terminating this strategic business promotion.

The purpose of “itcouldhappentoallof.us” was never intended to spread fear or promote terrorism, but rather to create awareness to all forms of potential disasters; including natural, economic, pandemic, etc…

The message was intended to be that truthfully, we never know what could happen next, ie: it could happen to all of us. Our goal, at Blan-Kits Family Defense was and still is to “Prepare America for Disaster; One Family at a Time”.

As far as the, quote, “cryptic messages” on our website…

These were simply puzzles, designed to intrigue those who stumbled across our website. Our thought was, people like to solve puzzles, let’s give them a reason to keep “checking in”.

We chose Latin phrases to make the “code” harder to crack and to add more mystery.

The Latin phrases are as follows,

Ab Epistiulis (this was intended to be a clue to look in the letters). It loosly translates to “from the letters” or “having to do with correspondence”.

Abundans cautela non nocet (this was meant to reference, disaster preparation, which is what we do) it translates to, one can never be too careful.

Caetera Desunt (this was intended to elude that there is still more puzzles to solve) it translates to the rest is missing.

Ad utrumque paratus (this one has been miss quoted by some on the internet) the translation was supposed to read Ready for Anything, Prepared for the Worst. This is the motto used by many “preppers”.

And Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere (which was essentially stating that we have the right to prepare) it reads, we dare to defend our rights.

The timer, this was simply a countdown to solve our puzzles before we revealed who we are and how we intend to help America. Some did crack the countdown, which is May, 4th at 3:21… which was simply, 54321, it was countdown, to a countdown. This was supposed to be funny. As far as Chicago is concerned, we needed to make sure people had the correct “time zone” or the 54321 wouldn’t get figured out.

We want this to be very clear, our goal was not to spread fear, only to create a little mystery. We are ENDING our marketing campaign early to put an end to all viral rumors that have been circulating the internet and to put American minds at ease.

Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and the families of the Boston Marathon tragedy.

Blan-Kits Family Defense, Inc.

“Preparing America for Disaster; One Family at a Time”

www.blan-kits.com"

Well. . . .shit

Someone said that wayback machine showed the last two lines were added at a later date, I wonder if this affects the translation.

From Chicago, creepy but the FBI is really good at finding people through computer's so hopefully they're all over this if it's serious.

This is /r/conspiracy that kind of answer won't fly here

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I'm just saying most people on this sub would think the FBI is involved in such a thing.

But if its an inside job, they'll never find them.

5/4 3:21 makes me think someone just punched some random stuff in a godaddy page builder. Not saying it shouldn't be treated seriously, but it is the type of nonsense I type into stuff when I'm playing with it.

Read it backwards, it's 12345.

source?

5/4 is quite obviously the date.. Then 3:21 is the time. I also found out the domain was registered end of January.. so they either were going to use the site for a different purpose OR knew that the attacks were going to happen and it's been planned out. Scary shit.

http://itcouldhappentoallof.us/robots.txt
I haven't explored yet.

Pfft. 404 on everything but stats.

Some registrars will release info on their customers if they receive a fax with the text "Pending Legal Action". Of course, if you don't intend to follow through with legal action it's dishonest.

Abundant caution does no harm

This is one of Hiram's Maxim's of Law, reference here (ctrl+f) http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/bouvier/maxims.shtml

That's all I care to share for now. the 'Correspondence' section at the top should be seen as "MEMORANDUM" based on the context clues given.

It was updated. Now saying it was a "strategic business promotion" "to create awareness to all forms of potential disasters"

Edit: Company's name is Blan-Kits Family Defense, Inc.

It should be cetera desunt... Lol. At least in classical Latin

Edit: Desunt: Third person, plural, indicative, active

ROMANI ITE DOMUM!

"What Constitutes a State"

What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlements or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-arm ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! Men - high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Sir William Jones

It was been updated. It is now advertising www.blan-kits.com at the bottom.

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Never crossed my mind, thanks.

Puer et puellula facerunt in cellula.

Gaudeamus linguae latinae!

Did this website pop up before or after the Boston bombings?

Domain was registered 30th January.. Actual site was uploaded a few minutes after the bombings. So they either didn't have specific purpose for site or they knew that something was gonna happen.

False. Way back snapshots show the counter and the lines of symbols back on 4/5

Where does it say when the site was uploaded?

Should we x-post this to some of the hacker/tech subreddits. I'm running maltego (footprint mapper) on the site, but i'm no expert. Got a few IP addresses "linked" to the site, but its probably just the host server.

Not to sound crazy, but I actually ran into this site early yesterday. I immediately freaked out and tried to find more information about it, and got this: The website has been up and counting since before the Boston Marathon but nobody had posted it anywhere. Nobody knew the website existed. I think whoever made this may have wanted to wait until after the Boston attacks for anybody to see it. The first place a link to this website is posted is here: http://cubeworldforum.org/topic/3328-it-could-happen-to-all-of-us/ by user "jamsterbuggy". The fucked up thing about it is, his location is "Massachusetts". It might sound like a bit of a stretch but I dunnno

It's a hoax: http://itcouldhappentoallof.us

Soooo. The countdown is gone and they admitted that it wasn't anything bad:/ it was just a business promotion apparently

http://itcouldhappentoallof.us look at the website now, it is changed and talks about how it was a marketing thing. It just changed

Check the site now. It's an advertising campaign.

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4chan

Does that text stuff translate in word?

Weird...

Thanks for clarifying that for us!

http://wsdata.com/2013-01-31/itcouldhappentoallof.us-domain-information.html

oh my god the server is in my area...

The page is hosted on GoDaddy's servers, the address is just their headquarters: http://www.linkedin.com/company/godaddy.com

oh. nvm

this feels like it came straight from a movie tbh. or just a troll. but then agaqin you can never be to safe. try and get some hackers to discover the IP address and location of the server and find the people involved in this then just spam them with questions until the answer is out

I spent about half an hour looking through all of the source code and couldn't find anything suspicious (a signature, a link, a reference). Maybe someone else would be able to do so, but I couldn't.

Did anybody do a Whois search the address is Lincoln Park Pesbyterian church and is registered to John Q. Public

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site down. what was displayed on this page before being broken?

does this help?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B-DtxwG6vr4J:thetimeisapproaching.info/+%22http://www.thetimeisapproaching.info%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Sure does. Although it only creates more questions. Thanks!

He is the terror behind this

This is very weird. Has anyone informed the police about this?

Decoded webpage screenshot http://i.imgur.com/UR1D72D.jpg

Guys, this was a promotion technique by some random company, click the link

16 days later...check the link. This guy must have gotten sick of the misconeptions lol.

There's also this: http://youtu.be/LM5Kiy3bzxA

BUT WHY CHICAGO?!!!

But why male models?

I don't think the CPD run is the focus here. When I researched the domain, the address came up as 600 W Fullerton Pkwy. I also searched for events in Chicago on May 4 and came up with a run for mental health. http://www.chicagoevents.com/event.cfm?eid=185

The location for the run is the spooky part. It's exactly the same area, the same street. I think this run is the key.

In black text which is masked by the black background you can find this text "Content copyright 2013. . All rights reserved."

This screams viral marketing to me.

That's auto appended by GoDaddy's site builder.

I thought that might be the case. Thanks

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No, it's just a name like "John doe"

I really hope no one reports this shit. Does everyone really not want to change in this world? Why would you report it to the very authorities we all talk shit about?

I believe people talk shit on the authorities that abuse their role in our society, not the authorities that are truely trying to help. Change is needed and in due time we will have change we have been wanting and fighting for. But if the people behind all the terror attacks (past, present and future) are trying to create that change then I will always fight against them. Nectar that is not the change we all want.

The WHOIS for the website comes up as John Q. Public being the owner of the site. A fake name, obviously. The number and address match the Lincoln Park Community Shelter.

More info: http://whois.net/whois/itcouldhappentoallof.us

multiple times, yes.

source?