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What is Cicada 3301?
Posted on 7/10/17 at 12:13 am
Posted on 7/10/17 at 12:13 am
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Cicada 3301 is a name given to an enigmatic organization that on six occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles and alternate reality games to possibly recruit codebreakers from the public.[1] The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012, and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014.[2][3] The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved, each in order, to find the next. No new puzzles were published on January 4, 2015. However, a new clue was posted on Twitter on January 5, 2016.[4][5] In April 2017 another PGP signed message was found: Beware false paths. Always verify PGP signature from 7A35090F.[6] Message explicitly denies the validity of any unsigned puzzle, as recently as April 2017.
The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, and steganography.[1][7][8][9][10] It has been called "the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age"[11] and is listed as one of the "top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the internet" by The Washington Post,[12] and much speculation exists as to its purpose. Many have speculated that the puzzles are a recruitment tool for the NSA, CIA, MI6, or a cyber mercenary group.[1][8] Others have claimed Cicada 3301 is an alternate reality game, but the fact that no company or individual has taken credit or tried to monetize it, combined with the fact that no known individuals that solved the puzzles have ever come forward, has led most to feel that it is not.[11]
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This post was edited on 7/10/17 at 12:15 am
Posted on 7/10/17 at 12:20 am to Honky Lips
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Go to bed
But pretty cool if it was the real thing. Sounds like something out of one of those cheesy teenager hacker movies from the 80's.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 1:49 am to weagle99
Do NOT try to solve it.
That's all I can say.
That's all I can say.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 2:15 am to weagle99
My parents found a bunch of dead cicadas in their basement fireplace a few years ago.
That's all I got. It was mysterious though.
That's all I got. It was mysterious though.
Posted on 7/10/17 at 2:19 am to weagle99
Posted on 7/10/17 at 4:18 am to weagle99
Posted on 7/10/17 at 7:54 am to weagle99
Awww sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit...
Someone's looking under the rocks of the interwebz
Someone's looking under the rocks of the interwebz
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:13 am to TheArrogantCorndog
Just watched that whole fricking video. FML
Posted on 7/10/17 at 9:27 am to weagle99
I figured it out.
It says, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
It says, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".
This post was edited on 7/10/17 at 9:28 am
Posted on 7/10/17 at 2:18 pm to MasterofTigerBait
Thanks for the link.
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On January 4th, 2013, the anniversary of the first Cicada puzzle, solvers crowded their IRC channel, anticipating when and how the new puzzle from 3301 would drop. Amid the fervor, an anonymous person posted a mysterious confessional. "I was part of what you call 3301/Cicada for more than a decade," the anonymous author wrote, "and I'm here to warn you: Stay away."
Any portentously dire and anonymous message on the Internet could be bullshite or trolling. But as the skeptical solvers read the screed, the author seemed knowledgeable enough about 3301 to give them pause. The author said he had been a military officer in an unnamed, non-English speaking country when, after a year of being unknowingly vetted in person, he was recruited by a member of 3301. He described them as "a group of like-minded individuals, all incredibly talented and connected, [working] together for the common good: the good of mankind." But over several paragraphs, he cautioned about their cultish beliefs, a conviction, for example, in "the Global Brain as another kind of 'God'?" – 3301 was nothing more, he wrote, than a "religion disguised as a progressive scientific organization." He concluded by saying he had since found Jesus.
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