CICADA 3301
Posted: 04 Sep 2019 21:07
Secret societies have always intrigued people around the world. And when Cicada 3391 puzzle popped up on
the Internet, people immediately started speculating the face behind these insanely difficult puzzles.
In most cases, code breakers and hackers ultimately get to the bottom of the origin of such Internet mysteries.
But that was not the case with Cicada. Nothing could point to the source. Even today, there is no clue as to the
people or organization behind these puzzles.
The Washington Post called it the "most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the Internet age."
"Cicada 3301" is the name given to a mysterious organization who is known to have posted several puzzles on
the Internet over the years. The first puzzle on January 4, 2012, and stated that its purpose was to seek
"highly intelligent individuals"."
On January 4, 2012, a mysterious message appeared on the message boards of sites like Reddit, and 4Chan.
The message had a hidden puzzle in it and gave solvers a month to crack it.
Although the puzzle was open to everyone, it required in-depth knowledge in cryptography, linguistics, number
theory, data security, and steganography.
So, it was not everyone's cup of tea.
It was a simple message which, once decoded, led to an URL. Further decoding led to an URL that gave out a book
code and a Reddit link.
The Reddit link contained Mayan numerals, a string of letters, and two images that were labelled as "Welcome"
and "Problems". Each of these images contained further messages for the solvers and ultimately led the phone number
and a message.
Does anyone seen this or have more ideas what it means!!
The first puzzle started with the simple message above. It was just an image, and there was supposed to be a hidden message. Few people put two and two together and opened the image in text editor. To everyone's surprise, it
turned into a Caesar cipher string that contained semi- readable text. Deciphering the text ultimately led town
image URI. image URLs are locations of images in the Internet. They are of the format "http:www.google.com/image
.png."
The image URL led to a duck image with another message:
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
the Internet, people immediately started speculating the face behind these insanely difficult puzzles.
In most cases, code breakers and hackers ultimately get to the bottom of the origin of such Internet mysteries.
But that was not the case with Cicada. Nothing could point to the source. Even today, there is no clue as to the
people or organization behind these puzzles.
The Washington Post called it the "most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the Internet age."
"Cicada 3301" is the name given to a mysterious organization who is known to have posted several puzzles on
the Internet over the years. The first puzzle on January 4, 2012, and stated that its purpose was to seek
"highly intelligent individuals"."
On January 4, 2012, a mysterious message appeared on the message boards of sites like Reddit, and 4Chan.
The message had a hidden puzzle in it and gave solvers a month to crack it.
Although the puzzle was open to everyone, it required in-depth knowledge in cryptography, linguistics, number
theory, data security, and steganography.
So, it was not everyone's cup of tea.
It was a simple message which, once decoded, led to an URL. Further decoding led to an URL that gave out a book
code and a Reddit link.
The Reddit link contained Mayan numerals, a string of letters, and two images that were labelled as "Welcome"
and "Problems". Each of these images contained further messages for the solvers and ultimately led the phone number
and a message.
Does anyone seen this or have more ideas what it means!!
The first puzzle started with the simple message above. It was just an image, and there was supposed to be a hidden message. Few people put two and two together and opened the image in text editor. To everyone's surprise, it
turned into a Caesar cipher string that contained semi- readable text. Deciphering the text ultimately led town
image URI. image URLs are locations of images in the Internet. They are of the format "http:www.google.com/image
.png."
The image URL led to a duck image with another message:
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301



