Games. Hometheater. M4 Message Breaking Project. Status: The first message has been broken on February 20th, 2006. The signal in question is the second of the intercepts in Erskine's letter. You can read the raw server logs as well as an interpretation and translation. The second break has occurred on March 7th, 2006. The signal in question is the third of the intercepts in Erskine's letter.