The internet mystery cicada 3301 Cicada 3301 is a nickname given to an organization that on three occasions has posted a set of puzzles to possibly recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public. 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. The stated intent was to recruit "intelligent individuals" by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved. No new puzzles were published on January 4, 2015. However, a new clue was posted on Twitter on January 5, 2016. In April 2017 a verified PGP-signed message was found: Beware false paths. Always verify PGP signature from 7A35090F. That message explicitly denies the validity of any unsigned puzzle, as recently as April 2017. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, and steganography. It has been called "the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age" and is listed as one of the "top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the internet", and much speculation exists as to its function. Many have speculated that the puzzles are a recruitment tool for the NSA, CIA, MI6, a "Masonic conspiracy" or a cyber mercenary group. 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. Who do you think was behind it?? What do you think happened to those individuals?? Was it an agency or a random troll with enough money?
wasn't just any normal puzzle. It had an image and image had a hidden url when opened in notpad and url lead to a book and book had a number and number multiplied by the dimensions of the image lead to another url and that url had an audio and thag audio led to another url and that url had co-ordinates of different points in the real world. Only a select few who went to those co-ordinates were selected amd no one knows what happened to them.
They were seeking smart but ultimately bored people, a.k.a. college kids. The real intelligent adults would be too busy working to care about some internet puzzle. But get this. PIMD is a 17+ game. Now, why is if 17, and not 18? One theory states that as PIMD is targetted towards college life, they are actively recruiting high school juniors and seniors to promote their true intentions. What are their true intentions, you ask? Why, it's all in their name. PIMD. Private Institution for the Mentally Depressed. Why else would a 17 year olds want to play a college simulation game, when they should be busy getting ready for college life? ATA, or A Technological Army, has been recruiting depressed high school students, simply to cure them off their troubles. This is why world chat is so filled with rp requests. That is the place that ATA has introduced for students to reveal their true intentions: roleplaying but without the responsibilities! When students get reminded of how diverse their future could be, they get a wake up slap and their spirits are rejoiced! Thank you, A Technological Army, for helping us through hard times. If you haven't figured it out, I've got an exam tomorrow and I'm wasting my life on this app. Huzzah! ?
what you described is literally a puzzle. and ok, maybe they just didn't go public with what happened. are missing persons report filed on those individuals, or are they still accounted for and just aren't in the public eye or are keeping what occurred secret?