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Good day, dear /tech/.
At the beginning of my message I would like to mention that I am an absolute novice in the technical field and have little or no experience. Nevertheless, I would like to ask a few questions about a topic that interests me for a long time. Of course only if you allow me that.
It is about the group called "Cicada 3301", which I noticed a few years ago. At first, I thought it was just a couple of teenagers bothering companies (for example, spam and/or DDoS attacks). Either because of boredom, fun, attention or money. But after a while, I discovered blogs, videos, and contributions from people who were fascinated by the abilities of this group and believed that it might be intelligence agencies like Mossad, NSA, MI5, MI6, GCHQ. No matter how long I searched for solutions on the Internet, no one seemed to be able to solve the puzzle. On various websites you could read several titles like "Cicada 3301: I tried the hardest puzzle on the internet and failed spectacularly".
Not only the technical skills were impressive, but also their knowledge about occultism, esoterism and "spirituality".
I would be very interested in your opinion and if you can tell us something about this group. Perhaps you could solve the puzzle and know more. Would be nice to read a few helpful and informative messages, if you want to help.
▶ No.776634
>>776633 (OP)
>No matter how long I searched for solutions on the Internet, no one seemed to be able to solve the puzzle.
Probably because whatever government organization behind this recruitment process has a strict no disclosure policy if you actually solve the thing.
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▶ No.776641>>777018 >>780874
>>776633 (OP)
They are hackers on steroid, also known as the internet hat machine. Treating the web like a real life video game. Sacking website, invading personal information and disrupting innocent people's life.
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▶ No.776663>>780038
>>776633 (OP)
Some guy who finished said they were a bunch of dudes on an .onion forum interested in cryptography and such but I doubt it's real.
▶ No.776692>>779604
>>776633 (OP)
>who is behind this organization
White nationalist rebels who hold some of the highest positions in US intelligence. Barron Trump was shitposting a few years ago and answered one of their puzzles, so they decided to make his father President.
▶ No.776711
>>776633 (OP)
Fuck off argnigger
>occultism, esoterism and "spirituality"
trash.tga
▶ No.776720
>>776633 (OP)
>triple dubs
>mentioning the org
You're on the list now anon. #staynoided
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▶ No.776817>>776823
secretive international no-fap org
▶ No.776823>>776832
>>776817
>secret
<on 8ch
You fail so hard.
There was like two other puzzles like this I remember finding from halfchan and another place that will be unmentioned. Who in their fucking right mind would follow these honeypots? Letalone take a job offer based on one of them. You would have to be out of your mind to follow this and not be using the most fucking awesome on the move opsec constantly to avoid being tracked.
Good luck if your going to try one of these and not be targeted for (((suicide))) or a job offer to be a crypto-kike.
▶ No.776832
>>776823
>creating serious a of increasingly difficult puzzles
>posting it on a venezuelan gold exchange forum
>just to kill some random fuck
>it's not a secret guberment project
Really makes you think.
▶ No.776877
Some of these are likely just headhunting orgs restarting on old method to market talent to SV companies. It got trendy to do around 2000 when the 'puzzle interview' got popular, then faded when metrics showed they weren't getting better work out of them than traditional programmers despite paying more. Maybe now that "traditional programmers" coming out of college are hopelessly inept they're trying this method again.
▶ No.776881
>>776633 (OP)
maybe you should mind your own business
▶ No.776989>>812130 >>812176 >>812181
▶ No.777002
>>776633 (OP)
Classic advertising technique.
▶ No.777013
It was just a well orginized ARG or scam. Nothing else.
▶ No.777018>>789406
>>776641
>the internet hat machine
So it's Valve?
▶ No.777443
>>776633 (OP)
>if you can tell us something about this group
>if you can tell us
>us
I ain't fucking with somebody that's actually possibly from an organization/agency.
also, try google, you retard. there's so many videos of people solving the puzzles.
▶ No.779489>>779496
>Our philosophy is simple:
>There is always a solution.
As expected for water types.
They're probably looking for other water types to redesign everything behind the scenes.
Sadly I'm more of an "air" now than "water" but I'm still interested in remaking this boring system.
I have my own ideas. I guess I have to start building AI.
>>776633 (OP)
>I would be very interested in your opinion and if you can tell us something about this group. Perhaps you could solve the puzzle and know more. Would be nice to read a few helpful and informative messages, if you want to help.
You sound like you're fishing something eh?
Give up. They're less than 1 or 10 billionth % and there's no way to ever find them other than letting them find you.
▶ No.779496>>779508
>>779489
n-s-yayy-kun get out. /tech/ knows you need good coders just fuck off now.
▶ No.779508
>>779496
First of all I'm not one of those disposable three letter people, secondly I don't let other people touch my code.
▶ No.779604>>789415
>>776633 (OP)
it isn't a puzzle it is a rabbit hole with no end in sight set forward by a sperg who works at a security consultance agency. cicada 3301 is a """puzzle""" that spans a bunch of different mediums. whenever there is a thread about it the sperg is there leading people through it.
>>776692
>Barron Trump
he's 15 right? seems like a cool guy.
▶ No.779624
Made a little bit of progress on it, but only started finding things after Defcon this year, so I'm concerned that even if I do make more headway, I'll be too late.
Anyone who has looked at the actual puzzle knows why I feel this way.
▶ No.780038
>>776663
Heard something similar a long time ago on /b/. Also that they are somehow engaged with the free software community, but I can't really prove anything either.
▶ No.780874>>791784 >>806889
>>776641
>the internet hat machine
Ok, internet hat machine here. What do you want?
▶ No.781002
>>776633 (OP)
I heard they are a group trying to get puzzle-obsessed autists to do free work.
▶ No.781063>>788437
In this video the complete puzzle is solved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJF_FoSI9o (Cicada 3301 All Clues and How They Were Solved)
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▶ No.788375
>>776633 (OP)
>I would be very interested in your opinion and if you can tell us something about this group
A bunch of mathematicians, programmers and steganography hobbyists in tech areas formed a club where they get drunk and play video games. Occassonally they do the puzzle thing to get new members. The aura of mystery that they've created is just for publicity.
▶ No.788437>>788755
>>781063
I doubt it. Youtubers make a living making videos. They probably just made up a fake story and claimed to have solved it.
Cicada is still out there operating though. The 2017 pgp message was found and it basically says what it's always stated that if there is no signed pgp message then it's fake.
▶ No.788755
>>788437
He doesn't claim to have solved it in the video, he just talks about how others solved it (at least that's how i remember it)
▶ No.789224>>789228 >>789265 >>789435 >>793634 >>793799 >>798037
>>776633 (OP)
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What would you like to know about us?
3301
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▶ No.789228>>789231 >>789234
>>789224
>be n-s-yayyy-kun
>be this assmaddingly desperate for good coders you actually admit you lurk these threads
topkek
You do know that hash signatures can be faked right? Why would anyone beleive this is not a setup? Post a hand with timestamp along with some proof you are whatever cicada's supposed to be funded by.
▶ No.789231>>789232 >>791775
>>789228
I'm cicadaman. I don't have to prove anything to you. I'm a expert hacker too so you better watch your mouth kiddo.
▶ No.789234>>789236
>>789228
Technically the hand and timestamp could be CGI generated too as to trick people. So technically there really is no way to tell if it is real. If they fuck up on the CGI then you could tell if it is fake though.
▶ No.789236>>789332
>>789234
Relevant example.
▶ No.789265
>>789224
>What would you like to know about us?
Why are you sliding, faggot?
▶ No.789332>>789398
>>789236
CGI artifacts wouldn't look like that, this is more of a "subtle" cutting technique used by RT to edit the interview a bit.
CGI, as we all know, generally doesn't look like collapsing collars or teleporting eyes. It looks like robot facial movement because of a lack of detailed movement.
Or with that new technique with the actor and sample vid, if the larynx or throat moves asynchronous with what is said. Maybe even if the inside of the mouth looks wrong or not like assange's sexy, sexy, tongue.
▶ No.789398>>789446
>>789332
So you mean that these artifacts are actually RT trying to merge two videos? Like Assange resaid his sentence, and they merged the two video at the same position in the sentence to make it look like it was taken in one go?
▶ No.789415
>>779604
>he's 15 right?
He's 11, he's just a big guy for his age.
▶ No.789435
>>789224
What do you need ultra-autismos for?
▶ No.789446
>>789398
Or he says "uhh" in between and they're trying to smooth his talk out a bit. Who knows, it might be worth asking them.
▶ No.791775
>>789231
Hack me a turkey sammich!
▶ No.791784
>>780874
>What do you want?
Can you make other types of hats? Your display looks like it's from a medical equipment which is cool, is your build quality the same as a good sewing machine from a bygone era? Are you really happy, or is it just a label they made you wear?
▶ No.793605>>793632 >>793793
While our group appreciates the speculation and mystery that's been generated over the years, there's some things I should want to set straight.
Cicada 3301 is, at its core, a group for puzzle enthusiasts. If you're the first person to solve our puzzle, you can join our group and help us make more puzzles. That's all there is to it.
Sorry if this disappoints people who're fond of conspiracies.
▶ No.793632>>793634
>>793605
>our puzzle
PROOFS?
▶ No.793634
>>793632
see >>789224
This board doesn't have IDs though, so whatever.
▶ No.793659>>793660
>>776633 (OP)
I always thought it was the Pentagon looking for a special type of person with enough intelligence and creativity to solve their puzzles.
▶ No.793660
>>793659
Basically a large scale recruitment drive.
▶ No.793793
>>793605
I like this theory
Cicada 3301 is secretly a recruitment drive run by Milton Bradley to help design puzzles for the future.
▶ No.793799>>793800 >>793806 >>828687
>>789224
Which pokemon would you fug?
▶ No.793800
>>793799
There's so many things wrong with this image that I don't know where to begin
▶ No.798037>>798038
>>789224
are you cia niggers
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▶ No.798038>>798042
>>798037
stop bumping this retarded trash leftypol
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▶ No.798087
back when it was all the rage I tried solving it a bit and usually the people wanting to solve it would frequent the cicada wiki which would be populated by usual IRC circlejerk AFKers, but one thing buged me the hell out of that IRC channel.
Few people of the admins and mods that were there talked in weird english (usually just grammatical errors and weird verb tenses) and they had the attitude of "da boss", beyond any real sense of the egocentric nerd that has some power.
I am highly convinced that Cicada was a operation to get autists and nerds around the world to work for some top tier secret organization (not even three letter government agency, but some of cultist type of secret organization). Also, my bet is on some of the slavic countries due to way how they spoke.
▶ No.798139
>>776633 (OP)
checked
>I would like to mention that I am an absolute novice in the technical field and have little or no experience.
No need to say this, you're on /tech/
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▶ No.806889
>>780874
Do you do fedoras per chance mate?
▶ No.806921
>>776633 (OP)
AVOID CICADA 3301 AT ALL COST
▶ No.812096
This article describes what Cicada actually do: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/cicada-3301-behind-the-internets-most-mysterious-crytographic-puzzles/
>Wanner claims that he and the other recruits demanded to know who 3301 were, and the answer was far simpler than they expected -- a group of like-minded individuals who believed in freedom of information and individual privacy.
>They claimed to have no affiliation with the government, military or a specific organisation.
>Wanner says that 3301 was split into decentralised cells, known as broods, and that that each one had no knowledge of any of the others. Their cell, subbed Brood b.0h, were instructed to develop software that aligned with 3301's ideology.
>This resulted in an idea that would protect whistleblowers, after being inspired by Chelsea Manning, a military intelligence analyst who disclosed almost 750,000 military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks.
>Known as the Cicada Anonymous Key Escrow System (CAKES), the software would automatically publish sensitive information online if a whistle blower was out of action for a designated period time, whether that be because of incarceration or death.
>The software never did come to fruition though. Supposed members of 3301 would comment on the group's progress, but by the end of the year work on the project had all but dried up.
I'm guessing that most of the other "cells" worked on similar things: developing software to help with the goals of expanding freedom of information and individual privacy. In my opinion, there is no need to do this in secret. CAKES sounds like the sort of thing that gets posted to Hacker News every day. I don't think someone from the CIA would murder you for writing this sort of thing, although you might run afoul of export laws if you were mainly developing in the US.
▶ No.812130>>812134
>>776989
-- Delivers anonymous, un-riggable, end-to-end verifiable voting
-- Delivers a practical Universal Basic Income (UBI)
-- Solves the Bitcoin/Ethereum 51% percent problem
-- Runs on a cell phone
-- Smashes censorship forever
-- Restores privacy and stops massive data breaches
-- Automatically battles DDoS attacks
-- Decentralizes DNS
-- Ends the crypto wars forever
-- Ends Proof of Work energy waste
-- Ends the ASIC race
-- Ends the centralization of mining
-- Survives even if the internet goes down
<and I'M the nigger
▶ No.812134>>812136
>>812130
<Delivers anonymous, un-riggable, end-to-end verifiable voting
>voting
You are a faggot. Direct or even semi-democratic societies don't work. You need a leader who can make final decisions or for the society to be following a rulebook by which all decisions are made. Otherwise you get brazil, the united states, and (((israel))) like nations of evil.
>Delivers a practical Universal Basic Income (UBI)
(((Communism))) does not work if there's no one to take the food from so everyone gets food by default. Especially if those producing the food have guns and special weapons to prevent you from forcefully taking the food for nothing in return.
<Solves the Bitcoin/Ethereum 51% percent problem
How is this a problem? The bitcoin/ethereum currency's value is based on the ever infinitelly expanding USD. Unless you base the value of the currency on something people can trade for real things it's useless.
<Runs on a cell phone
Is this a joke? Unless it's a samsung galaxy 2 with replicant you are stupid to use such a thing.
<Smashes censorship forever
<Restores privacy and stops massive data breaches
How?
<Automatically battles DDoS attacks
Again, how?
<Decentralizes DNS
How? There's already dnsmasqd and dnscrypt-proxy. You don't need anything else unless your solution makes dns fully E2E and not dependent on ICAAN.
<Ends the crypto wars forever
Literally who cares? As long as there is people there will be some greedy person who wants your data.
<Ends Proof of Work energy waste
You are a liar. If you don't demand proof of work then you are wasting your time on lacking quality software.
<Ends the ASIC race
Who cares? The whole point of it was to break SHA iterations for the not secret agency
>Ends the centralization of mining
This is ok.
>Survives even if the internet goes down
This is also ok. But useless because if the internet goes down then electricity is also most likely gone too.
You are a nigger and your project is cancer. Fuck off brainlet nigger.
▶ No.812146>>812147
>>812136
>I don't have an argument so I'll just refer to a boogeyman
▶ No.812147>>812148
>>812146
it's not a boogey man when you use (((funny jew meme parens))) and unironically advocate for totalitarianism you ignorant nigger.
hang yourself
▶ No.812148>>812149
>>812147
Still waiting on your argument.
▶ No.812151>>812153
>>812149
So you don't have one then? Good to know. Please tell us more about how you're protecting freedoms by running software on a cell phone with a baseband chip. I want to hear more about running encryption on devices designed to leak decryption keys from the factory.
▶ No.812153
>>812151
>mfw the cianigger A.I is defending my blogpost
>Please tell us more about how you're protecting freedoms by running software on a cell phone with a baseband chip.
Unless you are going for real security, the replicant phones with the baseband proccessor/modem isolated are fine for his use-case of an electric wallet. It's just that his entire idea is retarded and not well though out in how to implement it.
>designed to leak decryption keys from the factory.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
▶ No.812176
>>776989
>There is always a solution.
>Just because a problem is challenging or people have not previously discovered a solution, does not mean no such solution exists. It means the problem is not being looked at correctly.
This is illogical. Not all problems have a solution. And if you assume this you are likely to accept an unworkable solution since you cannot accept the status quo.
From a quick reading it seems like everything relies on a unique id for humans based on iris scans. Would they do this with locked down hardware? If not, it would be trivial to fake an iris scan.
▶ No.812181
>>776989
this looks like horse shit tbqh
▶ No.816511
Rumors say it's a bunch of crypty hobbyists that made this challenge.
It's their hobby and they put a lot of effort into it.
In the end you end getting contact with their little circle where they circlejerk to their shared cryptoknowledge.
▶ No.816552
It's an international cabal of teenagers with too much time led by a single financer, most likely George Soros. All of the leaders are Russian (or Salvic), and they have a variety of friends thoughout the world which is why it was an international game
▶ No.816846>>817320 >>828676
I bet we as a hivemind could solve it, like with that "unsolvable test" that /g/ beat (making hackernews and other autists buttmad). The problem would be if you found the answer to the final part of the puzzle it would be in your best interest to keep it to yourself or throw others off. Such is life in the collective.
▶ No.817244
former uc berkley professors
cold case closed
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▶ No.828669
>>812136
/leftypol/ don't you have some guy to suck off with your trannie mouth?
▶ No.828676>>828699
>>816846
>like with that "unsolvable test" that /g/ beat (making hackernews and other autists buttmad)
/g/ always doing interesting stuff like writing tox, writing their own browser, solving unsolvable tests - it's almost like /g/ codes more than /tech/ and the anons and the post quality are both objectively superior on /g/
perhaps /tech/ are the real pajeets.
▶ No.828687
>>793799
when that unwashed stinkachu puss stench hits you 😷 🤢
▶ No.828699
>>828676
>writing their own browser
/g/ did not write a browser. All they did was make names and logos.