Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The internet’s greatest unsolved mystery

"We are looking for highly intelligent individuals." 8/14/19

Cicada 3301 | EPISODE 1

In 2012, a secretive group calling itself 3301 began recruiting for "highly intelligent individuals" online. Candidates had to prove their skills in codebreaking, cryptography and computer programming by solving a complex puzzle dubbed Cicada. What was the purpose of the puzzle? No one knows, but many set out to solve one of the internet's greatest mysteries.

Cicada 3301 | EPISODE 2

In episode two, a band of online collaborators—Marcus Wanner, Nox Populi, OneCool, Brother Box and Shadow Walker—try to decode the "Liber Primus," a 58-page book of runes that is key to solving Cicada.

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