so yesterday the cicada twitter account (https://twitter.com

Was 1 year ago amigo

It did not?

Nothing yet.

>>18495624
It's 2017, not 2016.

infotomb are down for now, they were DDOS'd.
Also, the tweet is from 2016, last year.

>>18495624
wasnt there supposed to be a cicada solving thread somwhere

>>18495624
two days ago there was a post on /b/ and it says "two days probaly" with the white cicada logo

>>18495703
No PGP signature = no cicada, it's really not that hard

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>>18495624

Guys you can give up.

I am from the future, in year 2128 Liber Primus is still unsolved. So there is no point trying to solve it, you are just wasting your time.

protip: buy TrumpCoins

>>18495712
but what if its unsolved because you just told us to stop trying?

>>18495624
there was yesterday'S post on /x/
No pgp 'til now, Freenode Scream it'S fake, but hey, that's all we got.

Here's a sum up of the thread.

https://hastebin.com/uxixuwigav.coffeescript

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>>18495798

This is my collection of obviously fake cicada puzzles so far:

https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/18491379/
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/105803453/
http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/18494436/

They may have posted here yesterday, or maybe it was a larp, who knows.

>>18495828
Man, You were not around during pi.monbi? That was a hell of a thing.

>>18495844
Yeah, That don't feel like the good old Cicada.

But that has the sanme feel that last year'''s Pi.mobi, around paracelsus and Rosicrucians.

>>18495740
logically, if he came back to tell us to give up, he was always going to, so either way, in this fake universe where anon is a time traveler, LP was never going to be solved

in reality, it has to be solved eventually considering the amount of people who are crib dragging over everything. infinite monkey theorem.

Pi Mobi was a group of gamejackers. It was an ok puzzle for beginners, but they should have used their own name.

Cicada didn't post anything this year. Please look at your calendars.

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>>18495855
this are fake puzzles since jan this year

yeah i was around for pi.mobi, and fake bbc news website, and countless other shorter fake puzzles in previous years

Seek and YOU will be found. Cicada is working from higher level of conciousness in my opinion.

Guess I'll take my name back, to avoid confusion.

I was just stating that This years Fake puzzle feel a lot like last years Pi.mobi : All about rosicrucians, and Paracelsus, not much about cryptography itself.

I just point out the possibility that the symbolic of Cicada3301 could have been Hijacked by some weird dudes signing naked around a pit fire.

Not sayin' this is cicada at all.
But You know, there's someone else out there using the symbolic to hook up mad priests or something.

>>18495624
>yesterday
Shit dude, you're from the past?

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>>18496017
tackle this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRckB3FOwo0

>>18496017
Yeah I seriously question the authenticity of the liber primus. It just doesn't fit the same profile as the original cicada puzzle.

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>>18495624
This is Jon Secada.
And this is a Jon
Secada photo bomb!

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>>18496034
few of solved pages of Liber Primus jpgs have PGP signed messages hidden with outguess

>>18496032
Hey, I know you, Think we should hang out sometimes.

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Buy his book, In it Jon shares
the lessons he learned that
made him the resilient person
he is today. He's an author!
That's a feather in your cap.

Plumage. Ladies like that shit.

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>>18496405
either that...
Or....

Secada. Maybe it's a clue. Lol! I
was actually in the CIA. 20 years.
Saw a lot of action and I can tell
you that this Cicada outfit is not
what you hope. What it is, is a
psychosis inducing brainwash
used by terrorist to transform
the likes of you into a sort of
idiot drone that goes around
breaking lamps. If you catch
my vernacular? Common
Occurrence.

Pests.

This is still a thing? Geez, so many fake puzzles.

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>>18496812

I work for FBI. For 20 Years.
We are confident that the Russian Government is behind Cicada 3301. Such activity is not new to Moscow. Cicadas puzzles are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

I would tell you more details but I cant.
We have invested billions, and we put people's lives at risk to get such information. If we were to expose how we got this, we could just kiss that off. I was as forthcoming as possible.

>>18498057
We're going to fall for this bait? Tumblr tier.

>>18498057

I took this as satire echoing the supposed links to Russia hacking the election. I laughed. It's funny because it's how full of hot air these agencies are.

"Russia hacked the ARG"

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Investigate this fuckers.

4048.me.pn
http://n5gvslqnb4yomt6q.onion/
http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x7648CBD222B5DF7C

http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17602002
http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17620712
http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17636198
http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17848746
http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17158376

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1II3RIUhrfHTFcqDrFMZ1N0WMWY-L6EgDQRgum3oJukI/pub

I saw a cicada sticker someone slapped on some shit in Portland

To summarize: there isn't a new Cicada puzzle. There may not be a puzzle this year. Nobody knows. Any puzzle that has appeared to use their name recently was just a group of gamejackers. Disregard them.

Because there is still a puzzle not solved, the "Liber Primus"

>>18498554
>http://n5gvslqnb4yomt6q.onion/
hey just went on this website.
Didn't remembered it.
If you download the pic and open in Text, the first string seems to contain an equation.


From txt :
ÿOÿà JFIF ÿÛ C

 $.' ",#(7),01444'9=82<.342ÿÛ C 

2!!22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222ÿÀ

>>18498569
though even with your phone on you at the time you didn't take a picture

>>18498554
can't believe people still chase 4048 when it was clearly determined to be a retarded kid from brazil... lol

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I'm Dave, I'm one of the creators of Cicada.

It was a hoax.

We were four friends from MIT who decided to do some Internet trolling back in 2012. However it quickly grew and we got a bit carried away. The year 2012 and it's riddles were planned from the beginning. We didn't plan on doing any more puzzles after 2012 but since it blew up we decided to continue.

However, we didn't really know what to post to still have it seem mysterious. Which is why, it, after a while, started becoming more about reaching enlightenment than about compsci and math. It all ended in 2014 however, when someone, somehow, traced it back to our sysadmin and actually rang on his door. We decided there and then that this had to stop before more people actually found us. We still don't know how he found us since we thought we were pretty good at covering our tracks. But we did mess up with the status page once on one of our apache installs so I guess we messed up more times. Either way, that's why everything got taken down and why we never finished the 2014 riddles, and why we haven't posted anymore after that. We didn't have a plan with it, we didn't even think it'd work. We thought we made it way too hard, but the Internet is amazing sometimes. Scary, but amazing.

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I'll try to answer a few question that I'm sure will come up:

Posters in different countries on poles: One of them outside of the US was posted by our group, rest posted by our Internet friends. Two in the US was posted by relatives and the rest were posted by us. It wasn't anything more exciting than that. But it was fun to see the theories online about how big and rich our organization must've been.

Why: Why not? We don't really have a reason to desu. We just thought it'd be fun. I'm sorry but I don't have a better answer.

Why isn't this PGP signed: I don't have access to the key. As far as I knew, our sysadmin had deleted the virtual machine we used for everything. I didn't even know anyone in the group still had access to the twitter account until yesterday when I happened to read about Cicada 3301 and clicked the link and saw that it had a post from 2016. That's the reason why I made this post.

The people who claimed they won and got into our organization: They're lying. There never was any organization. We were four men from MIT. I think we replied to someones mail once or twice and then we left it and didn't touch it until 2013.

Did you ever provide solutions when the Internet got stuck: We did, a few times. Like those almost impossible solutions like XOR and then invert the bytes etc. No one would've solved that without us helping. We loved feeling like the NSA, watching in the shadows, reading IRC and the web about people trying to solve it. When we felt they didn't get anywere we either dropped a few helpful hints or gave out the solution so they could continue the search.

I do understand that many won't believe it and would rather hope it was some mysterious super secret organization like Illuminati that ruled the world, but it was just us.

>>18500492
>>18500497
Zup Dave, I'm a kid who followed the whole saga since the start. Are you sayin you stopped Business in 2014?

Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

can you drop us a hint about the liber primus tho? or is the whole book just faux?

>>18500497
Bullshit. Why?

>impossible solutions like XOR and then invert the bytes

That's any first year cryptography challenge. This is basically crypto 101 and it's easy as fuck.

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>>18500854
Not Dave, but this may help...

how's voynich gonna help?

>>18501413
>voynich
I am going to go out on a limb and say there is a lot of controversy around it. People debate if it's real, or a elaborate fabrication. People have wasted countless man hours and resources to prove or dis prove the manuscripts validity. I believe "not Dave" is implying this maybe the inspiration for the liber primus. Looking over both I see a lot of similarities.

Soooo... Dave never came back?
Nice troll.

>>18495712
really hate time travelers. they destroy free will of action and try to assimilate this reality for their will alone. fuck off back to your timeline

>>18495706
cicada still using PGP?
>not using GPG
hahaha

>>18503888
ohh