Speaker 1: Oh redal Tzar oh Red of Hello and welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. This is the Cult of Conspiracy and I
Speaker 1: am the Cajun Night and Raven, and today we are
Speaker 1: going to be taking a little bit of a of
Speaker 1: a walk through the park into something that dates back
Speaker 1: to twenty twelve and allegedly never really existed, but also
Speaker 1: may have been a recruiting ground for one of the
Speaker 1: big three letter agencies or one of the big hacker groups.
Speaker 1: For anybody who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking
Speaker 1: about here today we are going to be talking about
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one. Before we get started here, Raven,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of Cicada three thirty one?
Speaker 2: I have not. I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the overview of this Cicada thirty three oh
Speaker 1: one was a series of encrypted messages and ciphers and
Speaker 1: codes and songs that would be sent to people's email addresses,
Speaker 1: and you had to extrapolate the soundbites from that to
Speaker 1: find binary codes that you could use as a cipher
Speaker 1: to decode whatever message you got. Last. Some of these
Speaker 1: were based out of literary sources. Some of these were
Speaker 1: based out of you know, geolocations. Then you know, as
Speaker 1: time went on, there was fourteen locations around the world
Speaker 1: that you had to go and like scan this QR code.
Speaker 1: And so it wasn't just you know, nerds in their
Speaker 1: basement just tapping away on the computer to find these codes.
Speaker 1: You actually had to get out of your house and
Speaker 1: go find these things. And that led to another call,
Speaker 1: not that yeah.
Speaker 2: I've heard about that.
Speaker 3: I heard about the QR codes and people traveling around
Speaker 3: and like taking photos of them, yeah, and saying like
Speaker 3: I found this one, here's the next one, and I
Speaker 3: know about that.
Speaker 2: I never knew there was a name or that it
Speaker 2: was actually something real.
Speaker 1: And then also if you shared your intel with anyone else,
Speaker 1: you were kicked from the program. And they didn't know
Speaker 1: that at first. So basically, these people that were on
Speaker 1: these online forums and stuff, hey I figured out this
Speaker 1: code by bap bop, they would receive an email when
Speaker 1: they got to a certain point saying it's clear that
Speaker 1: you can't be trusted, so thank you for your participation,
Speaker 1: but you know, bye, uh it wold. Then you also
Speaker 1: had to have a working understanding of Mayan numerology of
Speaker 1: ancient Nordic rooms. Those came up. That's actually the last
Speaker 1: code that has yet to be deciphered. It's a it's
Speaker 1: called Liber Primus, and it is a series of Nordic
Speaker 1: rune runic messages that only I think one out of
Speaker 1: the twelve has been decoded.
Speaker 2: That's wild. Yeah, I mean, is it like a Mariotti situation?
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? Because that one's John
Speaker 1: I'm drawn a blank on Mariotti.
Speaker 3: Marriotti is Sherlock Holmes's arch nemesis.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like you know, the decoding
Speaker 2: of all of.
Speaker 1: That well, kind of yes, kind of no. Because along
Speaker 1: the way, Cicada three thirty one thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: rather released a message saying who they are, quote unquote,
Speaker 1: they said that they are comparative to a think tank.
Speaker 1: They're only looking for the best and the brightest, and
Speaker 1: they are not doing any kind of illegal acts. And
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, they knew who the people
Speaker 1: were that were making it this far because they're smart,
Speaker 1: and they were letting them know that if you are
Speaker 1: somebody who is engaging any legal activities, either stop your
Speaker 1: shit now or you're no longer continuing. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: ask questions if you don't want to continue, but understand
Speaker 1: that we ain't about that kind of shit either. And
Speaker 1: it's like, so is this like it's crazy weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a show that was released like two years ago,
Speaker 3: I think on Netflix where they get these like alien
Speaker 3: tech head like these things that they put over their
Speaker 3: head and they play these intense games and pretty much
Speaker 3: like they have to decipher it, and it's like brilliant minds.
Speaker 2: It was nefarious.
Speaker 3: It led into aliens and like taking over the world
Speaker 3: and all this stuff. But the premise of that was
Speaker 3: to send stuff to really intelligent people that they knew
Speaker 3: were intelligent to see who could make it.
Speaker 2: And who couldn't.
Speaker 3: And like they couldn't talk about it with each other either,
Speaker 3: they didn't and.
Speaker 2: Then when they did they ended up dying. But it's
Speaker 2: the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But okay, so that might be based off of this. Honestly,
Speaker 1: now to our knowledge, nobody died allegedly. We don't like it, So.
Speaker 3: Noah is actually cracked it full Like, what happened to
Speaker 3: the people that did it?
Speaker 2: Are they the prime hackers or who?
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say nobody cracked it because the bitch
Speaker 1: of it is if somebody did crack it. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: have gone public about it. We would never know who
Speaker 1: they were there, if they did, and if they accepted
Speaker 1: whatever offer was being extended to them, we would never
Speaker 1: know their name. Nobody would ever know what they did
Speaker 1: or how they ended up working for this agency, this
Speaker 1: think tank, this activist group. Who knows, who knows, But
Speaker 1: we do know that in twenty seventeen was the last
Speaker 1: time that a message was sent out from Cicada thirty
Speaker 1: three to ZHO one. And allegedly no one has deciphered
Speaker 1: it yet. However, I think that some have and they
Speaker 1: just can't talk about it. There's tons of speculation, there's
Speaker 1: tons of theories as to what this was, who this
Speaker 1: was from, what was the overarching point of it all.
Speaker 1: You know, some of these people they think, which we're
Speaker 1: going to actually hear a clip from the Wi Fi
Speaker 1: I was good old WiFi, I'll shout out. He believes
Speaker 1: that this was a thing for the government, right, the CIA,
Speaker 1: the NSA, the FBI, the whatever, to try to find
Speaker 1: the greatest hacking minds there were. But then when people
Speaker 1: got to the final endpoint, they realized that that's what
Speaker 1: it was, and they just decided to stop because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to work for the government because they were
Speaker 1: loving the puzzle solving, right, It's like a dopamine hit.
Speaker 1: And then when they figured out that all this was
Speaker 1: to get a government job, they're like, nah, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to decode puzzles, so dip out Like there's tons,
Speaker 1: there's tons of theories, and none of them are any
Speaker 1: more or less crazy or stupid than the other, because
Speaker 1: no one knows.
Speaker 3: What if it's like a breeding ground for aliens, like
Speaker 3: a type of like super intelligence, and they're picking the
Speaker 3: best of the best.
Speaker 1: Yo, is this how they're finding the star children?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's maybe how they're doing it.
Speaker 3: They're picking out the best of the brightest, and they're like,
Speaker 3: you know what, we're far superior than these little measly humans.
Speaker 2: We're just going to take the absolute smartest.
Speaker 1: I mean it could be, it could be, so, you
Speaker 1: know what, We're just gonna get into it. Aside from
Speaker 1: us bumping our gums and talking that shit, we are
Speaker 1: gonna actually start reading some articles, some first hand accounts.
Speaker 1: We're actually gonna hear from the guy who was the
Speaker 1: first one to decode the first message, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: learn more about Cicada thirty three oh one together, good
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Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three to oh one. All right, so here
Speaker 1: we have it. This is just a quick Wikipedia read down.
Speaker 1: We're not going to read the whole article about it,
Speaker 1: but this will kind of give us a good little
Speaker 1: a little introduction, okay, and this is the cicada in question.
Speaker 1: This is the image that started at all So Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one is the name given eight sets
Speaker 1: of puzzles posted under the name thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: online between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen. The first puzzle
Speaker 1: started on January fourth, twenty twelve, on four chan. As always,
Speaker 1: anything of the deep Web has to start on four cham,
Speaker 1: but don't worry. The dark Web makes its appearance into this.
Speaker 1: Ancient literature makes its appearance into this. Some would even
Speaker 1: say occult symbolism, because it was always about achieving enlightenment.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna get to it anyway, and it ran
Speaker 1: for nearly a month. A second round of puzzles began
Speaker 1: one year and one day later actually in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: and then a third round following the confirmation of a
Speaker 1: fresh clue posted on Twitter on January fourth, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: The third puzzle remains unsolved. The stated intent was to
Speaker 1: recruit quote unquote intelligent individuals by presenting a series of
Speaker 1: puzzles to be solved. No new puzzles were published on
Speaker 1: January fourth, twenty fifteen. A new clue was posted on
Speaker 1: Twitter on January fifth, twenty sixteen, and Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: oh one posted their last verified open PGP signed message
Speaker 1: on April or in April twenty seventeen, denying the validity
Speaker 1: of any unsigned puzzle. So they start using PGP, which
Speaker 1: stands for pretty Good Protection. Basically it's it's like an
Speaker 1: IP address, so basically you can verify if this is
Speaker 1: being sent from the source that it's claiming. Because there
Speaker 1: was tons of people that were like, uh, it's false.
Speaker 1: Cicadas that were sending out messages to make people start
Speaker 1: decoding them in things, but they were very clear, no,
Speaker 1: no check the PGP like this. If it's not verified,
Speaker 1: US don't even fuck with it. The puzzles focused heavily
Speaker 1: on data security, cryptography, steganography, and Internet anonymity. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about what steganography and some of these other things
Speaker 1: that they used was. It was quite ingenious.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: It has been called the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle
Speaker 1: of the Internet age, and is listed as one of
Speaker 1: the top five eeriest unsolved mysteries on the Internet by
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, and much speculation exists as to its function.
Speaker 1: Many have speculated that the puzzles are a recruitment tool
Speaker 1: for the NSA, CIA, m I six, or even the
Speaker 1: Freemasons or Cybermrcenary Group, which I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm leaning more towards a cybermercenary group. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to our own personal theories towards the end. Others have
Speaker 1: stated Cicada thirty three oh one is an alternate reality game,
Speaker 1: although no company or individual has attempted to monetize it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nobody benefited from this. They were never selling anything.
Speaker 1: It was about seeing if you were smart enough to
Speaker 1: figure it. I mean, who's to say, right anyway, So,
Speaker 1: the stated purpose of the puzzles each year was to
Speaker 1: recruit highly intelligent individuals, although the ultimate purpose remains unknown.
Speaker 1: Theories have included claims that Cicada thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: is a secret society with the goal of improving cryptography,
Speaker 1: privacy and anonymity, or that it is a cult or religion.
Speaker 1: According to statements of several people who won the twenty
Speaker 1: twelve puzzle, thirty three oh one typically uses non puzzle
Speaker 1: based recruiting methods, but created the Cicada puzzle because they
Speaker 1: were looking for potential members with cryptography and computer security skills.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get into some of the more
Speaker 1: in depth looks at all of this. This article is
Speaker 1: from The Guardian as a matter of fact, and it
Speaker 1: talks about the person who tried and had failed to
Speaker 1: actually break the code here Cicada thirty three oh one.
Speaker 1: I tried the hardest puzzle on the Internet and failed spectacularly.
Speaker 1: On screen right now you'll see some Nordic runes, some
Speaker 1: in red, some in black, in the Cicada. It might
Speaker 1: seem a little weird, but this is actually part of
Speaker 1: a puzzle, and this is if I'm not mistaken, it's
Speaker 1: part of the puzzle that has not been solved to
Speaker 1: this day, so no one knows who sets it up
Speaker 1: up sets it or what the prize is at the end.
Speaker 1: But Cicada thirty three oh one is back for its
Speaker 1: third year and the internet has gone wild. So this
Speaker 1: was actually posted. Where's the date on this one? I
Speaker 1: just want to see if it's a if this person
Speaker 1: did it relatively recently or not, And I see nothing.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be on your left hand side at the top.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I'm a little retarded. It's okay, all right.
Speaker 1: So this is in twenty fourteen, okaynos.
Speaker 2: More than twelve years ago. That is what it said.
Speaker 1: So this is back when Cicada was like, it just released,
Speaker 1: it's its latest, so this was current to the time.
Speaker 1: So let's get into it here. The hardest puzzle on
Speaker 1: the Internet is not perhaps something to be attempted on
Speaker 1: whim during a quiet January afternoon, But ever since I
Speaker 1: first heard of Cicada thirty three oh one, a mysterious
Speaker 1: event somewhere in the intersect of a game, a competition,
Speaker 1: and a job interview, I wanted to test my metal.
Speaker 1: It couldn't be that hard, right wrong. Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: oh one first appeared in January twenty twelve, with the
Speaker 1: picture posted on four Chan the notorious message board which
Speaker 1: has given birth to everything from log cats to Anonymous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the q Andon people, which some believe.
Speaker 1: That's also what Cicada thirty three to old one was.
Speaker 1: They were looking for recruits for QAnon. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna talk, We're gonna get there anyway.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Anonymous hacker group allegedly has no ties
Speaker 1: to QAnon, even though there's a lot of blatant ties.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to all of it. Who knows, it's
Speaker 1: all speculation at this point. In white text on a
Speaker 1: black background, the post a message read Hello, we are
Speaker 1: looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have
Speaker 1: devised the test. There is a message hidden in this image.
Speaker 1: Find it and it will lead you on the road
Speaker 1: to finding us. We look forward to meeting the feud
Speaker 1: that make it all the way through. Good luck thirty
Speaker 1: three oh one. Every one of their messages was signed
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one at the end. So whenever you
Speaker 1: went in and you found the code and you did
Speaker 1: the things, this image would pop up. It was a
Speaker 1: duck and it said whoops, just decoys. This way looks
Speaker 1: like you can't guess how to get the message out. Now,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Within this message, within this image, there
Speaker 1: is a code. Out guess is a software program that
Speaker 1: you can use to decode things. But unless you knew that,
Speaker 1: or at least it knew that that was what they
Speaker 1: were trying to go here, you would have thought, oh god,
Speaker 1: what is this? And I remember seeing this image and
Speaker 1: everybody's like, it's the purple thing behind the wing. That's
Speaker 1: the clue. It's got to be No. Out guests was
Speaker 1: the clue, and you were supposed to take this image
Speaker 1: to go to out guests and go from there. But anyway,
Speaker 1: let's continue. That message led to a series of puzzles,
Speaker 1: each harder than the last. The first few were just
Speaker 1: about as solvable as a canny individual working alone, requiring
Speaker 1: little more than mild coding ability and wordplayed to get passed,
Speaker 1: but as participants fell deeper into the rabbit hole, the
Speaker 1: references became less obvious. One clue involved a poem from
Speaker 1: a collection of medieval Welsh manuscripts. Another a quote from
Speaker 1: a William Gibson book which was only released on a
Speaker 1: three point five inch floppies. Yeah, you had to go
Speaker 1: and find a floppy disc of this book from William
Speaker 1: Gibson to find the code within the paragraphs to decode
Speaker 1: the message.
Speaker 3: I love really hard puzzles and I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 3: to you. I'm like, wooh, I'm super intrigued.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of the answers that are
Speaker 1: publicly known online, but the third series have not been
Speaker 1: solved so ravenly. If you want to get after it,
Speaker 1: who knows.
Speaker 3: I don't think that I'm a brilliant mind to be
Speaker 3: able to get after it. I don't think I'm smart
Speaker 3: enough for all of that. But yourself, I do love
Speaker 3: me some really hard puzzles, and I love to do
Speaker 3: the whole you know, here go, here go. Hear chasings down.
Speaker 3: They're always so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are. I just if I had any kind
Speaker 1: of background in coding, I might fuck with it, But
Speaker 1: I boy with what time? You know? Seriously, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Cooperating on chatrooms and message boards, a growing collection of
Speaker 1: puzzle solvers broke the codes one by one. When the
Speaker 1: game moved into the real world, a series of GPS
Speaker 1: coordinates were posted, leading to QR codes attached to lamp
Speaker 1: posts over five different nations. From Poland to Austria. It
Speaker 1: was clear that no single could hope to solve everything,
Speaker 1: but as quickly as the cooperation was encouraged, it was
Speaker 1: snuffed out. The final puzzle directed players to an address
Speaker 1: for a website on tour. Yes, that would be the
Speaker 1: Dark Internet. We're going on to now the anonymous browser
Speaker 1: now best known for its use by the Silkrow black market.
Speaker 1: But only the fastest movers got to see what was
Speaker 1: on this page. It was shortly blanked and replaced with
Speaker 1: a statement we want the best, not the followers. For
Speaker 1: those deemed followers, Cicada was over. So it's like, and
Speaker 1: I don't know the actual numbers here, if it was
Speaker 1: like the first five hundred people to get to that
Speaker 1: website and then five ozho one the website was shut down,
Speaker 1: and so it was, and then if you shared whatever
Speaker 1: was on that website, you were kicked out and they
Speaker 1: would send you an email basically thanking you for your time.
Speaker 1: Wild things. So now let's get into the repetition here. Then,
Speaker 1: on January fifth, twenty thirteen, one year and one day
Speaker 1: later after the first, a new image was uploaded onto
Speaker 1: four chan's b message board, saying hello again. Our search
Speaker 1: for intelligent individuals now continues. Again, this image led to
Speaker 1: a series of puzzles. Again, the puzzles eventually point to
Speaker 1: locations in the real world, and again the trail was
Speaker 1: abruptly closed off to all but the best players. Those
Speaker 1: who failed two years in a row had no choice
Speaker 1: but to wait and hope the pattern would repeat itself.
Speaker 1: It did. This year's puzzle began slightly different. Rather than
Speaker 1: an image posted on four cham, a Twitter feed which
Speaker 1: had been involved in the twenty thirteen's hunt sprang to
Speaker 1: life again, sharing yet another image of white text on
Speaker 1: a black background, albeit one with more gnomic text than
Speaker 1: ever before. Says, Hello, epiphany is upon you. Your pilgrimage
Speaker 1: has begun. Enlightenment awaits now. You see how it's kind
Speaker 1: of dipping into some of the more occult themes, the
Speaker 1: spiritual things, you know.
Speaker 2: Hey, okay, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so h This is when the author actually decided
Speaker 1: to jump in here. It says this year, I tried
Speaker 1: to join the hunt. So far it hasn't gone well.
Speaker 1: I at least appreciate the author's honesty, like, oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm figuring it out. No, I'm gonna be honest I
Speaker 1: can't figure this shit. This is weird.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's fair, it doesn't. It definitely looks interesting
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of coded stuff.
Speaker 2: I looked up the different various codes for it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's interesting because I'm uh, because there's actually
Speaker 3: I don't know, you probably saw this, but there is
Speaker 3: a new revised to KADA three thirty one group that's
Speaker 3: actually a ransom group for a double ended ransom group
Speaker 3: that they've apparently already hit like twenty one companies as
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, five large companies excuse me, twenty
Speaker 3: one large companies, five smaller companies. They're apparently they're using
Speaker 3: the term that they actually call themselves, the Kada three
Speaker 3: thirty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if there's an article, pull that up, because
Speaker 1: we're gonna need to talk about We're gonna to talk
Speaker 1: about that towards the end, because I don't know how
Speaker 1: many of those are phonies and how many of those
Speaker 1: are the actual Cicada group, because who's to say one
Speaker 1: way or another.
Speaker 3: Well, they said that it's a spin off from the
Speaker 3: group itself, but they they're using that name as their
Speaker 3: actual group to beet a ransom group.
Speaker 2: They're using ransom software that's online.
Speaker 1: So I haven't looked into what the group is up
Speaker 1: to today because I'm just looking at from twenty twelve
Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen, what they did, how they did it
Speaker 1: in this kind of thing. If there's some modern things
Speaker 1: that are going on with it. Yeah, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about that one towards the end. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: all right, so back to what we were talking about.
Speaker 1: It says, in fact, it could have been stated or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, In fact, it couldn't have started any worse
Speaker 1: is when he was trying to decipher it in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: There are two messages buried in the image file. The
Speaker 1: first is easy enough to get. The black image isn't
Speaker 1: actually pure black. Instead, it's very dark gray, and he
Speaker 1: is the image of the cicada. A couple of seconds
Speaker 1: messing at the color levels and photoshop and it made
Speaker 1: it visible. So this was the original image, and once
Speaker 1: you messed around with photoshop a little bit, you were
Speaker 1: able to see the cicada. Okay, cool, So that was
Speaker 1: like the first bit on here. Unfortunately, the actually important
Speaker 1: message was harder to get. As with the previous two years,
Speaker 1: the image included text hidden with steganography, a technique which
Speaker 1: lets users bury information in seemingly innocuous files. To get
Speaker 1: the information out, require me to use a program called
Speaker 1: out guests. To install out Guests, I need to compile
Speaker 1: the program from the source. To do that, I need
Speaker 1: to install x code, the MACOSX developer tools. Create a
Speaker 1: new command line project based on the source code I downloaded,
Speaker 1: reconfigure the program for Mac, deal with the dependency issues,
Speaker 1: build it, and then run it from the terminal. This
Speaker 1: is to do the first that was a lot. That was.
Speaker 2: A lot. You No, I'm not smart enough, you.
Speaker 1: See what I'm saying. And I know, for like tech people,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, oh, well.
Speaker 3: That's somebody though, yeah, I know somebody that could do this,
Speaker 3: But I really do.
Speaker 1: I mean that person that you know might have already
Speaker 1: done this and got to the end of the yellow
Speaker 1: brick road and was like, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Doing that, to be fair, he works, he works deep
Speaker 3: in the government now and like none of us have
Speaker 3: heard from him for a hot minute.
Speaker 2: But shit, like he's really really smart.
Speaker 3: So he was actually a coder and did like all
Speaker 3: that stuff and calm in the Marine Corps and then
Speaker 3: he got out, well, he got approached to do stuff
Speaker 3: with the government, and then he got out, and like
Speaker 3: last I heard from him, he was like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: got this position like super high up in doing like
Speaker 3: decoding and codes and all this stuff in the government.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, to be fair, he is crazy intelligent, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know he is, and so I don't doubt that
Speaker 3: he could solve this puzzle. He actually is the one
Speaker 3: of the ones that showed me the dark Web and
Speaker 3: like how to get to it and do all this stuff.
Speaker 3: And he's like, oh, yeah, you go here in this code,
Speaker 3: in this code, and I'm like, you know, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: smart in some ways.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 1: Smart, I didn't think i'd ever have to ask you
Speaker 1: this question, But just serious, now, do you think your
Speaker 1: boy might be a Cicada boy?
Speaker 3: If I was to guess of any any person I know,
Speaker 3: which I know some pretty intelligent people, I would say
Speaker 3: that he is probably one of the people that could
Speaker 3: have if he didn't hear about it, I know he
Speaker 3: probably heard about it. Honestly, he probably solved it if
Speaker 3: I was a guess.
Speaker 2: He is so.
Speaker 3: Smart, but very very quiet. The most timid, quiet person
Speaker 3: hardly says a word to anybody. But when it comes
Speaker 3: to computer stuff, oh my god, there's like no one
Speaker 3: I know that's better than that.
Speaker 2: So if I was to guess, I believe that he
Speaker 2: would be one.
Speaker 1: Damn okay, Raven might actually have a plug into Cicada.
Speaker 1: Who knew. But you see what I'm saying, like off
Speaker 1: of that first image, the whole the whoops, I guess
Speaker 1: you have to do something to figure it out. You
Speaker 1: had to know that. What they meant was, oh, you
Speaker 1: got to go to out guests, which, like most people
Speaker 1: is never going to know what guess is, They're never
Speaker 1: gonna know to download that and then all this other
Speaker 1: stuff that was just listed out, install x code, go
Speaker 1: to the developer tools, compare it or do the discrepancies
Speaker 1: for Mac and all that. Like this to a tech person,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I could bust that out in my ten minutes,
Speaker 1: no problem. D For regular people like you and I
Speaker 1: and most of our cult members were like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that was a whole lot of gibberation. It sounded real
Speaker 1: tech knowlogy, and there's that you know. So all right,
Speaker 1: So maybe.
Speaker 3: If someone had showed me and like taught me how
Speaker 3: to do this stuff, Okay, I could probably once I learned,
Speaker 3: I could probably know it, But just to know it
Speaker 3: out the gate, no, So.
Speaker 1: I like how the author is a normal person, he said.
Speaker 1: What I actually do is been the better part of
Speaker 1: an hour clicking around in x code, desperately trying to
Speaker 1: find a magic button to click which will make everything
Speaker 1: work without requiring me to learn how to code in
Speaker 1: an afternoon. There is no such button. This may be
Speaker 1: harder than I thought. I appreciate the realness, honestly, out
Speaker 1: of desperation, I turned to the community. Apparently I'm a
Speaker 1: few days behind the curve. They've already extracted the text
Speaker 1: and solved the puzzle. As I look at the solution,
Speaker 1: my hope begins to melt. It's really mind boggling, ob
Speaker 1: twose a mind bogglingly obtuse. Okay, So here was the solution.
Speaker 1: The text, which can be extracted from the image is
Speaker 1: split into three parts. The third is just a signature
Speaker 1: proof that the image really does come from Cicada and
Speaker 1: that it isn't it hasn't been tampered with. But above
Speaker 1: it is the next step of the puzzle. The first
Speaker 1: part reads like a poem. I'm gonna I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: my best to read this and make it sound like
Speaker 1: it's from them, but hear me out the work of
Speaker 1: a private man who wished to be transcend, or who
Speaker 1: wished to transcend he trusted himself to produce from within.
Speaker 1: That's followed by a series of numbers separated by colon's one,
Speaker 1: colon two, colon three, colon one, slash three, colon three,
Speaker 1: colon thirteen, colon five, slash forty five, colon five, colon two,
Speaker 1: colon three, and so on cat with the word dot onion.
Speaker 1: That last bit means that the solution, when found, will
Speaker 1: be the URL to another website on tour, following the
Speaker 1: pattern of the previous year. So once again you gotta
Speaker 1: go to the dark web. So even after you do
Speaker 1: all of these other things, you're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: to a tour browser just to go to the next step.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the uh, what the sourcing means,
Speaker 1: what the code, the symbolisms, the sequencing. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but apparently people were easy.
Speaker 3: Do you think it retains later to like the other messages?
Speaker 2: Later on? Do they stack onto each other?
Speaker 1: Some did, okay, some did, some didn't. Some of them.
Speaker 1: Basically once you figured out the code and you were
Speaker 1: onto the next one. Like later on they bring up
Speaker 1: a Holy Grail and an image of King Arthur that
Speaker 1: you have to like squinch down and turn into one
Speaker 1: of those like seeing eye pictures to see a thing,
Speaker 1: and so like, this code has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: King Arthur or the Holy Grail. Later when they bring
Speaker 1: up Tiberius Julius Caesar, there's a connection between him and
Speaker 1: King Arthur that people have to make that comparison. And
Speaker 1: it's like, I wait what, and it's it's all over
Speaker 1: the place.
Speaker 3: It's all so I don't believe that this is a
Speaker 3: just random stuff like the code that's a code for
Speaker 3: it in and of itself.
Speaker 2: Now I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3: Now you got my mind thinking this is years ago
Speaker 3: and I'm over here like I want.
Speaker 2: To solve it.
Speaker 1: Well, as always.
Speaker 2: I'm not smart about codes, but like.
Speaker 1: As a time of recording, this was almost nine years
Speaker 1: ago when the last message was sent out. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to it all because some people say that
Speaker 1: it just that's all it was was a big game,
Speaker 1: a big Internet game. Some say this was absolutely like
Speaker 1: a job fare for those that knew what to.
Speaker 2: Do a lot of work though for just a game.
Speaker 1: And nobody made money off of it. None of it
Speaker 1: was monetized. There was no commercials, no ads, no nothing
Speaker 1: for that much work for no yield. I'm I don't
Speaker 1: believe that this was just for the fuck of it.
Speaker 3: Does anybody know if people like actually survived though it
Speaker 3: got to like the inn levels, I.
Speaker 1: Wonder some some but the last clues still have not
Speaker 1: been solved to this day, allegedly allegedly because if they
Speaker 1: were solved, we would never know about it because the
Speaker 1: first person that comes forward and says, I did it,
Speaker 1: Cekada's going to shut them down immediately. So like, we
Speaker 1: don't know. So let's get back to the code here.
Speaker 1: So how is it solved? The numbers give a clue.
Speaker 1: The code probably involves a book. That format is a
Speaker 1: relatively known way of using a book as a key
Speaker 1: to a code. The first digit is the paragraph, the
Speaker 1: second is the sentence, the third is the word, and
Speaker 1: the fourth letter the fourth is the letter. But which book?
Speaker 1: So this is called a Caesar cipher by the way.
Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, there was a code
Speaker 1: or excuse me, a treasure map that was used for this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the Beal ciphers.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The bial ciphers are three pages which basically tells where
Speaker 1: the location of forty three million dollars somewhere in is
Speaker 1: it Butler, Virginia, but so Bedford County, excuse me, somewhere
Speaker 1: in Bedford County, Virginia. There's forty three million dollars worth
Speaker 1: of gold and silver and all these things buried, and
Speaker 1: the location of these things are in these encrypted images.
Speaker 1: Right now, here's the deal. This is what it looks like.
Speaker 1: And apparently the second page was decoded using the Decoration
Speaker 1: of Independence, so the Declaration of Independence was used in
Speaker 1: the same way that those numbers were. This is the paragraph,
Speaker 1: this is the line, this is the word, and this
Speaker 1: is the letter. And from that you're able to take
Speaker 1: and figure out the location of the gold, or so
Speaker 1: they say. Anyway, but we don't know what number one
Speaker 1: and number three of the Beal ciphers are actually entailing.
Speaker 1: Number two is the only one that's ever been decoded,
Speaker 1: and they knew that that was supposed to be used
Speaker 1: from the Decoration of Independence. We have no idea what
Speaker 1: document or what book. Number one and number three was
Speaker 1: supposed to be decoded from. So there are other ciphers
Speaker 1: and other maps that have been used in a very
Speaker 1: similar fashion. So whenever you see these numbers, so this
Speaker 1: is page one, paragraph two, word three, and then the
Speaker 1: first letter of that word. So from that you're able
Speaker 1: to take this and figure out which book right. So
Speaker 1: let's read this here It says your help is greatly appreciated,
Speaker 1: but please use as many headings as you can to
Speaker 1: break long documents in smaller chunks. By placing a section
Speaker 1: under headings two, it gets its own edit button next
Speaker 1: to heading, thus making it easier to edit. Try to
Speaker 1: put new header eight height of one screen. You can
Speaker 1: edit only smaller chunks without having code of whole document
Speaker 1: on one screen. It also prevents collisions since many authors
Speaker 1: can edit text under different headers at the same time. Also,
Speaker 1: keep in code form all strings we got from outguests
Speaker 1: so they are searchable in Wilder. I think that's how
Speaker 1: it's kind of blurry as far as these words concerned. Also,
Speaker 1: don't delete multiple links to same pacete. Those paces are
Speaker 1: not forever. We need them as backups. Keep as many
Speaker 1: different links. Paste bind pasty info toom and in Wikia
Speaker 1: as possible. Also, do not delete things that might be
Speaker 1: possible hents for next step, even if they do not
Speaker 1: seem important at the moment, they may be relevant later.
Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone for contributing. So this is basically the
Speaker 1: Circado wiki, right, they had people that at this time,
Speaker 1: we're still trying to share information to find the clues
Speaker 1: later on, whenever it was revealed that like, no, that'll
Speaker 1: work for a point, like working together is going to
Speaker 1: be a critical thing for this, and then yeah, no
Speaker 1: more working together. We need to know if you're trustworthy
Speaker 1: as an individual.
Speaker 2: So okay, based off of still round one, correct, this is.
Speaker 1: I think this is round two. This so this article
Speaker 1: is from twenty fourteen, so actually no, no, this was Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was round three. So round one was in twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: Round two was in twenty thirteen, and round three was
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. Okay, and that's only been there's only
Speaker 1: been three rounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it I was kind of like looking at
Speaker 3: where they had to go and stuff like that, and
Speaker 3: it was interesting because they had to go. So when
Speaker 3: the clock hit zero, they had gotten GPS coordinations for Warsaw, Paris, Soul, Sydney, Seattle,
Speaker 3: and New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that was another thing. New Orleans was
Speaker 1: on that list, which was very interesting for a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And if you look at those cities individually,
Speaker 1: there's some that could it be government things, possibly, could
Speaker 1: it be occult things possibly, Like there's there's no they
Speaker 1: had to.
Speaker 3: Physically travel to each location, which is wild that they
Speaker 3: sent them on a wild goose chase pretty much.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many of you have ever
Speaker 1: used that long to find a specific point. So me
Speaker 1: and my friends used to do something called geocaching. You
Speaker 1: know what that is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Geocash is a website where you go and there's geocash
Speaker 1: locations all over the world, right and they give you
Speaker 1: the grid coordinates to go and find things. National parks
Speaker 1: have a lot of them as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: and it will tell you, you know where to go,
Speaker 1: look up in this tree or under this rock, or
Speaker 1: whatever the case, and you'll find typically like an ammocam
Speaker 1: or something that is sealed to where moisture can't get in,
Speaker 1: and you're supposed to leave something. You're supposed to take
Speaker 1: something and leave something. It's usually like a toy, a
Speaker 1: challenge coin, maybe money, or whatever the case would be
Speaker 1: here's the deal. I don't know how many people have
Speaker 1: actually used like grid coordinates to find a specific location.
Speaker 1: Whenever human error is a thing, it is not so easy.
Speaker 1: So whenever you're giving somebody some sort of a latitude
Speaker 1: and longitude for the city of New Orleans bro on
Speaker 1: which city block that might actually be, is insane. And
Speaker 1: so these people were just they had to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm gonna read really quick this thing though,
Speaker 3: because it actually all the images led together to lead to.
Speaker 2: The Book of the Dead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because which.
Speaker 2: Led to a Tora website. So everybody kind.
Speaker 3: Of ran to these websites, ran to the coordinates, and
Speaker 3: they took photos, and everybody used it together to upload
Speaker 3: into this image host that was like eight four five
Speaker 3: one four five one two seven dot com dot and
Speaker 3: inside that the solvers found a reference to the Book
Speaker 3: of the Dead, which led them to a tora a website.
Speaker 2: And then the first visitors of the website apparently.
Speaker 3: Got recruited, and those who got who got there later
Speaker 3: saw message that said we wanted the best, not the followers.
Speaker 3: It's the CAD's way of filtering out the copycats. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and this website is really interesting. Here that shows all
Speaker 3: the different stuff with it. So I didn't realize when
Speaker 3: you said it was runic thing. It's fifty eight pages
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna pull them up here in a minute.
Speaker 1: I have them. And it's unless you can read Nordic
Speaker 1: ruins and then extrapolate whatever code that you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be able to get from this, you're you're just shit
Speaker 1: out of luck. But yeah, they brought in the Book
Speaker 1: of the Dead things from Julius Caesar, the King Arthur,
Speaker 1: like all of these things are brought in as well
Speaker 1: as being a tech nerd enough to be able to
Speaker 1: use code, and they had.
Speaker 3: To be a historian as well and be able to
Speaker 3: and be able to decipher all these things.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Mayan numbers. Mayan numbers were used at a certain point
Speaker 1: as a source code, like how many how many people
Speaker 1: walking the earth right now know what the fuck Mayan
Speaker 1: numbers look like.
Speaker 3: It's maybe maybe they use this to help develop the
Speaker 3: advanced versions of AI very you know.
Speaker 1: Hold on and say save all possibilities towards the end,
Speaker 1: because like you just said, they brought up I know
Speaker 1: it's there's no crazy ideas, right, And it says that
Speaker 1: the these people were recruited. They don't know that. They're
Speaker 1: assuming that whoever was able to debunk this code or
Speaker 1: whatever the case, was recruited. But then even if you
Speaker 1: got the recruitment email, there's no guarantee that these people
Speaker 1: actually took the job offer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently they actually sent out the recruitment message congratulations.
Speaker 3: Please create a new email address with a public, free
Speaker 3: web based service once you've never used before, one you've
Speaker 3: never used before, and entered it below. We recommend you
Speaker 3: do this while still using Tora for anonymity. We will
Speaker 3: email you a number within the next few days, in
Speaker 3: order in the order in which you arrived at the page.
Speaker 3: Once you've received it, come back to this page and
Speaker 3: append a slash, and then the number you received to
Speaker 3: this URL. For example, if you received and it gives
Speaker 3: a massive number, then you will go to http slash
Speaker 3: and then it gives this whole website and its signed
Speaker 3: thirty three Toho one.
Speaker 2: So that's the second round of people.
Speaker 1: And again let's say they did it. Let's say the
Speaker 1: first hundred, the first five, the first thousand, who knows
Speaker 1: went to that website, did all the things, and then
Speaker 1: it was a job off from the CIA and they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, no, I don't want to work for
Speaker 1: the CIA, and they dipped out. Maybe that's why they
Speaker 1: had so many rounds of this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think it. I don't think it's that. I
Speaker 3: think it's something something else.
Speaker 1: It may have been QAnon, it may have been a
Speaker 1: activist group, it might have been online mercenaries. Like who's
Speaker 1: to say one way or another, but yeah, we're gonna continue.
Speaker 1: But it gets wilder the more you look into it,
Speaker 1: and the amount of work that was associated with solving
Speaker 1: these puzzles. So once you do the cipher and you
Speaker 1: find the actual source code of what you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be deciphering, here the answers contain in a poem sort of.
Speaker 1: It's like the most frustrating cryptic crossword ever, with no conventions,
Speaker 1: no help as it to length, no way of checking
Speaker 1: whether you've got the right answer beyond seeing whether the
Speaker 1: URL works. The answer, apparently is American author Ralph Waldo
Speaker 1: Emerson's essay Self Reliance. Here's the community's explanation as to
Speaker 1: why direct quote here poem references Transcendentalism right. Emerson is
Speaker 1: a noted Transcendentalist author, he trusted himself refers to trust
Speaker 1: thine self, which is a theme throughout self reliance as
Speaker 1: it or as is producing from with them. I do
Speaker 1: not think I would have gotten that on my own,
Speaker 1: says the author. So the community, there's only been one
Speaker 1: trustworthy piece of information as to who lies behind Cicada.
Speaker 1: It comes from an email leaked by one of the
Speaker 1: quote unquote winners of the twenty twelve challenge. It's impossible
Speaker 1: to verify fully because the leaker was forced to remove
Speaker 1: the signature to keep their identity secret, but others who
Speaker 1: receive the same email indicated that the contents were legitimate.
Speaker 1: This is a direct quote you'll have You have all
Speaker 1: wondered who we are. It reads in part, and so
Speaker 1: we shall now tell you. We are an international group.
Speaker 1: We have no name, we have no symbol, we have
Speaker 1: no membership roster, we do not have a public website,
Speaker 1: and we do not advertise ourselves. We are a group
Speaker 1: of individuals who have proven ourselves much like you have
Speaker 1: by completing this recruitment contest, and we are drawn together
Speaker 1: by common beliefs. A careful reading of the text used
Speaker 1: in this context would have revealed some of the of
Speaker 1: these beliefs that tyranny and oppression of any kind must end,
Speaker 1: that censorship is wrong, and that privacy is an inalienable right.
Speaker 1: That doesn't give much. Yeah, however, it does sound very
Speaker 1: much like the anonymous hacker group, right, and other hacker
Speaker 1: mercenary groups that have come forward. So this is the
Speaker 1: Cicada puzzle that you're supposed to be able to put
Speaker 1: into a source code and get that out. Okay, yeah again,
Speaker 1: I'm if I was smart enough and new tech enough
Speaker 1: would be down. But boyl boy, I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying to remember for life in me. It's a it's
Speaker 3: called gosh, it's Atlas. It's Atlas something where they recruit
Speaker 3: and take all the smartest to uh, pretty much their.
Speaker 2: Own utopia Atlas.
Speaker 1: No, it's up North.
Speaker 2: No, it's a movie. There's three of them.
Speaker 3: They're great, but pretty much so what starts happening is
Speaker 3: the elite, like the smartest of the smart start disappearing.
Speaker 1: It's not Atlas, shrug.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The book about the Railroad.
Speaker 3: Is yes, it is, yeah, yeah, And they take and
Speaker 3: they take all the elites and they take them to
Speaker 3: this like utopian place. And I always loved that series
Speaker 3: because I thought it was super fascinating.
Speaker 2: It sounds just like that, though the book is wild.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the series that was based off of it,
Speaker 1: but the book itself, it's like it's about the global
Speaker 1: elites and oppression all these things, but it's like it's
Speaker 1: it's under the veil of railroad companies vie for power
Speaker 1: and shit. But yeah, anyway, anyway, so moving on, it
Speaker 1: says it seems unbelievable, but the number of other possibilities
Speaker 1: is fast shrinking. At the end of the first Cicada,
Speaker 1: it was possible that the whole thing was a game
Speaker 1: or a publicity stunt. For the launch of Halo two,
Speaker 1: Microsoft did something very similar, launching an alternate reality game
Speaker 1: called I Love Bees. Some of you that were alive
Speaker 1: and was popping off at that time might remember it,
Speaker 1: but neither here nor there. But that game ran for
Speaker 1: just three months before it ended with an invitation to
Speaker 1: play the game. Cicada is now on its third year,
Speaker 1: and again, this was in twenty fourteen. Similarly, the security
Speaker 1: services have been known to recruit through puzzles and games,
Speaker 1: but when GCHQ invited people to solve a code to
Speaker 1: get a job, they did so on a site plastered
Speaker 1: with their branding, and it begs beggars belief that they
Speaker 1: or the NSA would seriously start a hunt for spies
Speaker 1: on four Chan. I hear that, But also so, if
Speaker 1: you're looking for hackers who have a certain type of
Speaker 1: belief system and understand the internet and mean culture to
Speaker 1: that level, where else would you recruit from? That's just
Speaker 1: me But okay, okay. At the same time, Takeda must
Speaker 1: be the work of more than one person with some
Speaker 1: hefty resources. So far, physical artifacts from the group have
Speaker 1: appeared in eight nations and eleven US states. It has
Speaker 1: brought phone numbers, paid for server up time, and offered
Speaker 1: something to the winners, which has earned their silence. So
Speaker 1: now last chance. I decided to have one last try
Speaker 1: it solving a puzzle. To stave off temptation to cheat,
Speaker 1: I would try to solve the most recent cipher, a
Speaker 1: seventy character code reading I'm not going to read. It's
Speaker 1: a bunch of letters and numbers beside the point which
Speaker 1: has been found by combining two previously discovered answers. Eavesdropping
Speaker 1: on the chat channel, I see someone point out that
Speaker 1: the Enigma code was formatted in the same way. They
Speaker 1: link to an Enigma simulator and I gave it a go.
Speaker 1: The most common version of the Enigma has a key
Speaker 1: of four letters, so there is a little less than
Speaker 1: half a million combinations. Yeah, that's that works. After half
Speaker 1: an hour of trying to every four letter phrase I
Speaker 1: could think of, that's a CADO may have picked based
Speaker 1: on every previous clue. I gave up and go to bed.
Speaker 1: In the morning. When I check again, the puzzle has
Speaker 1: been solved. Involved putting the letters into thirteen columns and
Speaker 1: shuffling the order around until a legible sentence appeared. The
Speaker 1: enigma theory does not even warrant a mention. The answers
Speaker 1: leads to another dark website with another image and more puzzles,
Speaker 1: which remains incomprehensible to me. When I leave the chat room,
Speaker 1: they are discussing a large chunk of data found between
Speaker 1: two images and yet another dark website. I gave it
Speaker 1: a go and do the G two crossword instead. So
Speaker 1: this is the uh, this is a hold on this
Speaker 1: is an article on it, but anyway, so that's pretty
Speaker 1: much the end of the Guardian article. This guy tried
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen and it was way beyond his comprehension,
Speaker 1: which for record, I get there. There's no shame behind
Speaker 1: most of us, and which that was the point. This
Speaker 1: was not something that they wanted millions of people shooting
Speaker 1: their shot in. They wanted you, if you were going
Speaker 1: to try to make it into Cicada, they wanted to
Speaker 1: know that you knew what the hell you were doing
Speaker 1: and able to think outside of the box, outside of
Speaker 1: the web, into the real world, into ancient texts, into
Speaker 1: decoding the unknown. It was everything all at once.
Speaker 3: I wonder if the links still work. I wonder if
Speaker 3: this is still an active thing. It is not, well,
Speaker 3: go back to it. It's not, it is not.
Speaker 1: So all of what we have right now are basically
Speaker 1: screenshots and things that Cicada is okay with the world
Speaker 1: knowing about the final level, which we're going to get
Speaker 1: to the ruins and shit, that's it. Beyond that, it's
Speaker 1: all speculation. Did these people receive that congratulations email? Was
Speaker 1: that all made up? How can we verify if it's
Speaker 1: real or not? Like it's it's that's it, And they
Speaker 1: haven't re opened it again. So there were three rounds
Speaker 1: and that was it. They have not done another round.
Speaker 1: They did, and we talked about that. In twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: they released a statement. Ever since twenty seventeen, everything's been silent.
Speaker 2: Hmm. It's strange.
Speaker 1: It's very strange. So now let's talk about the guy
Speaker 1: who actually was the first one to solve the first
Speaker 1: cicada in twenty twelve. This dude who uh wait, Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's the next article. Excuse me, this is the guy.
Speaker 1: This is the first dude to solve the first Cicada cipher.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get to him here in a moment.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there's another article talking about it, and this
Speaker 1: is actually from April of last year. So the unsolved
Speaker 1: mystery Cicada thirty three oh one cipher, let's get into
Speaker 1: it here. The Internet has been home to countless cryptic puzzles,
Speaker 1: but fewer have sparked as much intrigue and speculation as
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one. This mysterious organization emerged in
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, posting an elaborate puzzle that sent thousands of
Speaker 1: solvers on a global scavenger hunt involving advanced cryptography staganography,
Speaker 1: which is hidden messages within images and sounds, and real
Speaker 1: World Treasure hunts. Over the years, multiple challenges appeared, leading
Speaker 1: participants through an intricate maze of hidden messages and complex ciphers.
Speaker 1: But was the ultimate goal of Cicada thirty three to
Speaker 1: oh one? Who was behind it? And why did it
Speaker 1: suddenly vanish? To this day, no definite answer exists, leaving
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one is one of the most
Speaker 1: intriguing unsolved mysteries of the Internet. So let's get into
Speaker 1: it here. We talked about this on January fourth, twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: and anonymous black and white image appeared on four chance
Speaker 1: b message board with the following text, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this. As participants developed deeper, they encountered a variety
Speaker 1: of challenges requiring expertise in cryptography, staganography, classical literature, programming
Speaker 1: in cybersecurity, and geographic location decoding. So when we talk
Speaker 1: about the cryptography, a Caesar cipher is a version of this,
Speaker 1: which is probably the most base line that you can get.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you an example of this. So let's
Speaker 1: say that I was to give you a letter, like
Speaker 1: I handwrote a letter to you, and it's not words.
Speaker 1: There's a letters that would form words but none of
Speaker 1: them actually make sense. And I told you that there's
Speaker 1: a Caesar cipher on this with a plus four variable,
Speaker 1: so A would become d, b would become e. Right,
Speaker 1: So you take whatever letter it is, add four and
Speaker 1: when you get to the end of the alphabet you
Speaker 1: wrap around again. This is the very baseline of a code.
Speaker 1: As far as that goes, right, it's very easy to
Speaker 1: decipher as long as you have the key if it's
Speaker 1: a plus four, a plus ten, whatever the case would be,
Speaker 1: or a minus for that matter. But they got into
Speaker 1: some source code shit that I I've never even heard
Speaker 1: of some of these things, for instance, So we talked
Speaker 1: about the Beel ciphers, right, that's just number code. The
Speaker 1: Veneer Visioneer cipher is another one. It's it's Egypt, It's
Speaker 1: it may no goddamn sense to me. I watched videos,
Speaker 1: you know what. Let's see pulling up the images, so
Speaker 1: you have to basically see it makes words in a
Speaker 1: diagonal way, a left right way or right to left way,
Speaker 1: and you have to use code like this to debunk it. Basically.
Speaker 2: Huh, I'm not gonna lie to you. I probably would.
Speaker 2: I probably would do these.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: I just I love I love doing all the codes
Speaker 3: and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So you see this one right here, this at the
Speaker 1: bottom lx fo p v e f r n h R.
Speaker 1: Then whenever you pullic it into a key stream, it
Speaker 1: comes out as lemon lemonal, which the key is lemon,
Speaker 1: and then you use that to decode this and it
Speaker 1: actually says attack it dawn.
Speaker 2: Okay, that'd be really fun. I'm not gonna lie it is.
Speaker 1: It's really cool. But my point is, unless you knew
Speaker 1: that that was what was asked of your way, you
Speaker 1: would never you would be plug and this into some
Speaker 1: sort of a data bank. You'd be trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what a coat like I just said, a couple
Speaker 1: of letters this way, a couple letters that way. It
Speaker 1: would take you fucking forever. But these people knew what
Speaker 1: time it was, and so they went hard with it.
Speaker 1: And like I said, as Caesar show.
Speaker 2: How do people learn this stuff?
Speaker 3: That's what I've always wondered, Where do they learn this
Speaker 3: stuff from?
Speaker 1: These are just people that get down on puzzles. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean like a ten thousand piece puzzle like
Speaker 1: a jigsaw. No, No, this is this is real brain power.
Speaker 1: Sudoku is like actually third three year old levels for
Speaker 1: these people. Oh yeah, like it's it's.
Speaker 2: I do like that, but you know, I'm not smart
Speaker 2: enough for this for sure, but she is.
Speaker 3: So it is so cool though really to think of
Speaker 3: like how these things were created. But how would you
Speaker 3: even find this stuff out? As what I'm curious about?
Speaker 3: But I mean even with my friend, like he just
Speaker 3: knew shit, right, I was like, don't you see the patterns?
Speaker 3: Is what he would always say, Well, there's patterns to
Speaker 3: it all. I don't know what you're talking about, but
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you see them.
Speaker 1: But that's my point. They were looking for people who
Speaker 1: their brain operates on this wavelength. This was not for
Speaker 1: your average Joe who's punching his nine to five o
Speaker 1: clock and just comes home and watches the football game
Speaker 1: and drinks a six pack every day. That person is
Speaker 1: not even in this conversation, right. This was for people
Speaker 1: whose brains operate on borderline weaponized autism, which is fine, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so anyway, the steganography, like I said, is
Speaker 1: hidden messages within images and sounds like whenever you would
Speaker 1: take that image and you play with the font and
Speaker 1: you play with the color a little bit and it
Speaker 1: shows the cicada. That's baseline. Later on they discovered that
Speaker 1: you had to find three and I'm sure it's gonna
Speaker 1: be brought up here in a minute. There was like
Speaker 1: three numbers that you would need off of this image.
Speaker 1: Thirty three zho one was one of them, and that
Speaker 1: was it, and it was the black and white image.
Speaker 1: Where's the other numbers? Is it in the lettering? Is
Speaker 1: it in the cicada itself? What's up? No, it was
Speaker 1: in the pixels for this way and this way. It
Speaker 1: was like five thirteen and five nineteen pixels that were
Speaker 1: both prime numbers, and so is thirty three oh one.
Speaker 1: These prime numbers plugged into their algorithm and their shit
Speaker 1: gave you an answer that would lead to another question,
Speaker 1: another puzzle, another clue. It's like, what the hell?
Speaker 3: So you sure aliens didn't create this, like they weren't
Speaker 3: like looking for the smartest maybe, right, That's a lot
Speaker 3: of work.
Speaker 1: That is not even the craziest thing that has been
Speaker 1: proposed as far as what this is? Alien? Fuck? Why not?
Speaker 3: Man, I'm truly down to learn more about this. I'm
Speaker 3: very intrigued. My brain's just like.
Speaker 1: Ooh, let's get more into it here, the puzzle is
Speaker 1: not confined to the digital world. As solvers progressed, Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one left physical clues in locations worldwide,
Speaker 1: including the United States, Spain, Port, Poland, South Korea and Australia.
Speaker 1: QR codes were posted its specific coordinates, sending participants further
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole. So let's talk about the evolution
Speaker 1: of this. From twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, Cicada thirty
Speaker 1: three oh one released three major puzzle events in January
Speaker 1: of twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, and twenty fourteen. Every year
Speaker 1: the challenges became more advanced, drawing in thousands of solvers
Speaker 1: around the world. I would argue probably hundreds, but all right.
Speaker 1: In the twenty twelve puzzle right, The first puzzle began
Speaker 1: with the now famous image posted on four CHAM. It
Speaker 1: guided solvers through digital clues, encryption techniques, and even real
Speaker 1: world locations. Those who made it to the end reportedly
Speaker 1: received an email from Cicada confirming that they had reached
Speaker 1: the final stage. What happened after that remains unknown, as
Speaker 1: those selected were likely instructed to remain silent, which that
Speaker 1: checks out right. The twenty thirteen puzzle. A year latest,
Speaker 1: Akida launched a new puzzle with a similar format, but
Speaker 1: this time it featured more complex cryptographic tasks. It required
Speaker 1: deeper knowledge of mathematics, programming, and historical references. Like the
Speaker 1: first puzzle, it ended quietly with no public announcement or
Speaker 1: verified outcome. Then the twenty fourteen puzzle. The third puzzle,
Speaker 1: introduced something new, the Liber Primus, a book written entirely
Speaker 1: runic characters. Some pages have been decoded, revealing philosophical messages
Speaker 1: in riddles, but large portions remain unsolved. Many people believe
Speaker 1: that Liber Primus holds the final key to understanding Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three to OHO one's true purpose. After twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: no new verified puzzles were released by Cicada, apart from
Speaker 1: a disputed message in twenty sixteen warning of impostors. The
Speaker 1: group went silent, leaving the mystery open and unfinished. So
Speaker 1: the thirty three toh one cipher puzzles UH puzzles were
Speaker 1: incredibly complex, drawing on cryptography, literature, and advanced problem solving techniques.
Speaker 1: Each step required deep knowledge of encryption, coding, and historical text.
Speaker 1: Here's the breakdown of some of the key puzzle elements,
Speaker 1: so steganography hidden messages in images. One of the earliest
Speaker 1: puzzles used steganography, the practice of concealing information within images.
Speaker 1: The first clue a black and white image posted on
Speaker 1: four Chan containing contained text hidden in its code. Solvers
Speaker 1: used steganoography tools like outguests, a universal free software that
Speaker 1: conceals information in the redundant bits of data sources such
Speaker 1: as images, to extract a message leading to a cryptic URL.
Speaker 1: This technique appears repeatedly throughout the puzzle series, often hidden
Speaker 1: or hiding encoded instructions within seemingly ordinary images. So you
Speaker 1: needed the out guests to even begin to solve this shit.
Speaker 2: And so that's crazy.
Speaker 3: So I looked up if there was any missing people
Speaker 3: during twenty fourteen that were of like genius level. Several
Speaker 3: notable figures various fields went reported or unaccounted for during
Speaker 3: that year. Also, there were artists and intellectuals of a
Speaker 3: high caliber that went missing under mysterious circumstances, sparking public
Speaker 3: interest during twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: But that's the other thing. If it was an artist,
Speaker 1: they would have to have this level of know how,
Speaker 1: and by artists, I understand we're not talking about just paint,
Speaker 1: not just music, not just digital art, all the above.
Speaker 1: I feel like most if you were saying like genius
Speaker 1: level people, okay, that could be. But even like I'm
Speaker 1: throwing this name out, I know people feel some type
Speaker 1: way about him. Neil deGrasse Tyson couldn't figure this shit out.
Speaker 1: So it's like because he's a genius of a different
Speaker 1: type of breed, of a different category, if you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean maybe maybe they Actually you never
Speaker 3: know what people like to do in their hobby time,
Speaker 3: and artists see a lot of different types of artists,
Speaker 3: see different flows and patterns of things.
Speaker 2: Maybe they knew. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just looked up though, like genius people and intellectual people,
Speaker 3: and a good number of them went missing in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: So from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, just to record,
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just looked up in twenty fourteen and
Speaker 3: when the last one was done, because if they didn't
Speaker 3: go missing, they had to finish all three puzzles. So
Speaker 3: if they finished the third puzzle and they potentially went missing, yeah, now.
Speaker 1: We're gonna to get into the shit that makes regular
Speaker 1: people's brains melts a little bit myself included cryptographic challenges.
Speaker 1: Cryptographic challenges. The puzzles incorporated multiple encryption methods requiring advanced
Speaker 1: cry cryptographic knowledge Jesus Christ. Some of the key techniques
Speaker 1: include Caesar ciphers, which we just talked about a moment ago, right,
Speaker 1: a basic form of encryption where each letter is shifted
Speaker 1: a fixed number of places in the alphabet. For example,
Speaker 1: A might become D with a shift of three. I
Speaker 1: said four earlier. That'd be a three. Excuse me. Many
Speaker 1: solvers used online Caesar cipher decoders to help crack these codes.
Speaker 1: Now there's RSA and PGP encryption. Both are types of
Speaker 1: public key cryptography used to encrypt and decrypt messages securely.
Speaker 1: RSA is widely used encryption algorithm, while PGP, which stands
Speaker 1: for pretty Good Privacy, allows people to send encrypted messages
Speaker 1: that only the intended recipient can read. Their use in
Speaker 1: the puzzle suggests a strong focus on privacy and secure communication. Okay.
Speaker 1: Modular arithmetic a math concept used in many encryption systems
Speaker 1: where numbers wrap around after reaching a certain value. It
Speaker 1: helps solvers decode hidden patterns and solve numerical clues. It
Speaker 1: sounds easy until you see one of them and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? It wraps around, Like basically, you're
Speaker 1: solving for this equation, and every time a seven is
Speaker 1: written out, you start over as far as the linear
Speaker 1: code is concerned, and you continue working the same math problem,
Speaker 1: but now everything has new denominations behind it. And then
Speaker 1: when it hits a seven again, right, then there's prime
Speaker 1: prime number sequences. Prime numbers numbers only divisible by one
Speaker 1: in themselves appeared repeatedly in the puzzles. They were often
Speaker 1: used to hide messages or form the backbone of certain clues.
Speaker 1: Then we get to hashes and Base four encode or
Speaker 1: Base sixty four encoding. Many clues were encoded in Base
Speaker 1: sixty four, a method of encoding data into text. Others
Speaker 1: use cryptographic hashes, which are unique strings created to or
Speaker 1: from input data. May includes harder to reverse engineer without
Speaker 1: the right key. And that was the bitch of it.
Speaker 1: You didn't know if any let's say that this math
Speaker 1: thing took up like three whole pages. Let's hypothetically you're
Speaker 1: right now with pen and paper. You wouldn't know if
Speaker 1: it was wrong until the very end when you tried
Speaker 1: to go to a certain url and it wasn't there then,
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't know at what point you fucked up
Speaker 1: your math. You would have to go back to the beginning,
Speaker 1: because it's like a one degree difference here might be
Speaker 1: a four hundred degree difference in an hour. So you
Speaker 1: you actually don't know where you're at. So only the
Speaker 1: people that were like of.
Speaker 3: That mind, oh, to the people you have provo to
Speaker 3: every person that solved this, like real shit, that's pretty badass.
Speaker 1: It is. And then on top of all of this,
Speaker 1: on top of being able to decode poems, on top
Speaker 1: of being able to do mathmath, encryptions, and all of
Speaker 1: these things, you also had to have a classical and
Speaker 1: esoteric literature background. A distinct feature of Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: zero one's puzzles was the heavy use of literature, philosophy,
Speaker 1: and historical references. Clues frequently included passages from William Blake's poetry,
Speaker 1: particularly The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which deals with
Speaker 1: duality and enlightenment. Alistair Crowley's The Book of Law, a
Speaker 1: cryptic occult text that emphasizes individual will and secret knowledge.
Speaker 1: The Voynage manuscript and undecipherable medieval codex that appears to
Speaker 1: inspire Cicada's thirty three zero one's use of obscure symbols. Yes,
Speaker 1: still to this day that hasn't been decoded, and Liber Primus,
Speaker 1: the most infamous texts of the Cicada mystery. Written entirely
Speaker 1: in ruins, it remains largely unsolved, with many pages still untranslated.
Speaker 1: Some theorists believe the key to unlock Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: oz one's ultimate goal lies in decoding this text, and
Speaker 1: still like even aside from Cicada thirty three oh one,
Speaker 1: just linguists have not been able to decode every page
Speaker 1: of Premium or Liber Primus, which stands for like first.
Speaker 2: Book that's wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I mean, it's interesting that they added in
Speaker 3: specific things that are a cult like that have you know,
Speaker 3: Heaven and Hell and different things like this, Like sh
Speaker 3: I mean, it just sounds it sounds weird. It sounds
Speaker 3: like the elite of the elite, we're looking for maybe
Speaker 3: new fresh blood to add into their their group or something.
Speaker 1: I think that you might be onto something here. It
Speaker 1: may not be when we think of elites. Take take
Speaker 1: Rothschild out take Gates.
Speaker 3: No, I'll take talking about like above them. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about the real ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, the actual elites that we've never like. If you
Speaker 1: were to hear this name, you would not know who
Speaker 1: this person is. That level of elite. I think was
Speaker 1: looking for more henchmen or something close to that.
Speaker 2: You think henchman or do you think they were used.
Speaker 1: To I say henchman, I could I could say employees,
Speaker 1: I could say lackey, I could say to whatever level.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were trying to envelop people into
Speaker 1: the fold. I think they were trying to find more
Speaker 1: worker bees that were able to do things to this level.
Speaker 1: But again, we may have so many more opinions come
Speaker 1: out as we keep reading.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's crazy, though, what.
Speaker 3: I mean because a lot of the linguists, though they've
Speaker 3: been working a long time on some of these things,
Speaker 3: and I'm surprised that they haven't had one find way
Speaker 3: to decipher stuff.
Speaker 1: I forget what it is about, uh liber primus that
Speaker 1: makes it so hard to break down. Because rooms have
Speaker 1: been decoded, right, we understand the letters and the alphabet
Speaker 1: and the type of language that was being used. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it's because some of them don't make sense,
Speaker 1: or because there is a code using rooms that is
Speaker 1: the Liber Primus, and so like you have to know
Speaker 1: what code each individual page is using to decipher it.
Speaker 1: Some of the pages have been deciphered, and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about those more in depth here in a bit.
Speaker 1: Some of them are from what we can tell, it's
Speaker 1: not even gibberish. There's obviously some sort of a code
Speaker 1: being used. We have not cracked it yet, and maybe
Speaker 1: with the use of AI, maybe someone out there will
Speaker 1: be able to. But as of time recording, most of
Speaker 1: Liber Primus is still undecoded.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that supercomputers haven't been able.
Speaker 1: To do it, but I mean, we only have how
Speaker 1: many supercomputers on Earth, and how many of them are
Speaker 1: going to be used for something like this as opposed
Speaker 1: to some other thing that the developer of the computer wants.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. And like I said, maybe
Speaker 1: in the next year or two or five, as they
Speaker 1: keep developing more quantum computers and they start developing more AI,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that more of these things might be decoded.
Speaker 1: But Cicada's shut down. They got the guys that they needed.
Speaker 1: So it's not like any old person with some advanced
Speaker 1: AI on their laptop is going to be able to
Speaker 1: become a member of Cicada. They wanted this to happen
Speaker 1: before this, and maybe that might have been a part
Speaker 1: of the problem, because AI that we know today started
Speaker 1: in what was it twenty ee We talked about this
Speaker 1: a couple episodes ago, I forget, but they might have
Speaker 1: seen the writing on the walls and they knew they
Speaker 1: had to find some of their kind before it got
Speaker 1: to where everybody could do it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's wild.
Speaker 3: So as of twenty twenty five, only two pages out
Speaker 3: of the seventy six have been have been solved, right,
Speaker 3: And it's interesting most people say that it shouldn't be
Speaker 3: solved because of what they have solved from it. It's,
Speaker 3: you know, with the great with truth comes great power
Speaker 3: and great responsibility.
Speaker 2: Don't abuse it.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't sound ominous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't sound like Maybe they shouldn't fuck with
Speaker 3: this book at all.
Speaker 2: Kind of a vibe.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But whoever wrote it definitely wrote it
Speaker 1: with some real intent. And that's the other thing too.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the Cicada thirty three to OHO one people did
Speaker 1: decode it and used it to get to the end goal,
Speaker 1: and they didn't release what they found because at that
Speaker 1: point they it was a complete secrecy situation. So perhaps
Speaker 1: they were able to decode it and they just they
Speaker 1: had never posted it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Anyway, this is that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So moving on here the real world scavenger hunt. One
Speaker 1: of the most astonishing aspects of Cicada thirty three to
Speaker 1: oh one was its extension into the physical world. At
Speaker 1: certain points in the puzzle, solvers received GPS coordinates leading
Speaker 1: them to real world locations. These sites contained QR codes,
Speaker 1: paper posters, and cryptic messages, each directing participants to the
Speaker 1: next phase of the challenge. Confirmed locations include and for
Speaker 1: the record, on screen right now is one of these things.
Speaker 1: It's on a light pole in one of these places.
Speaker 1: But like that might be Paris, Warsaw, Poland. Excuse me, Okay,
Speaker 1: it looked European, but yeah, yeah, So some of the
Speaker 1: more known places Seattle, Washington, a poster with a QR
Speaker 1: code was taped to a lamp post Warsaw, Poland. A
Speaker 1: similar clue was found on a street sign, which we
Speaker 1: just had on screen. Soul, South Korea. A message was
Speaker 1: discovered attached to a telephone pole Sydney, Australia. Another set
Speaker 1: of coordinates led to a hidden message in the city.
Speaker 1: And if you look at these things, this is just paper,
Speaker 1: like one good rainstorm, this is gone. So time was
Speaker 1: of the essence like if you're going to be about
Speaker 1: this life, you better get on a plane. You didn't.
Speaker 1: Now it was the barrier for entry was going up
Speaker 1: a level because it wasn't just are you smart enough?
Speaker 1: Do you have the resources enough to drive or get
Speaker 1: in a plane to go to one of these GPS locations.
Speaker 1: There was fourteen of them around the world. And if you,
Speaker 1: for instance, were in a country that wouldn't let you leave,
Speaker 1: then that sucks. You can't be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Or if you were you know, you know it didn't
Speaker 1: have the finances. Maybe you were super smart, but you
Speaker 1: were living under the poverty line and you couldn't afford
Speaker 1: to rent a car or fly to a certain location. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: once again, you're you sorry.
Speaker 3: So well, it looked like that they were allowed to
Speaker 3: share images with each other for this specific thing is
Speaker 3: how they they were able.
Speaker 1: To do Maybe yes, maybe no, I mean like even
Speaker 1: if this post if this picture was posted. How do
Speaker 1: we know that at that point? Like we remember, we
Speaker 1: said that the websites would shut down after so many
Speaker 1: visitors would hit them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it said the first ones that solve the set
Speaker 3: The second one I guess was able to get into
Speaker 3: the website, and then from there they didn't want to
Speaker 3: take anybody else.
Speaker 1: And that right, So even if you were to go
Speaker 1: to what that QR code would tell you to, you know,
Speaker 1: the website, it would lead to or whatever the case,
Speaker 1: after so many people, that's it. So even if you
Speaker 1: saw this image and you weren't able to go and
Speaker 1: they shared it, who's to say the URL was still
Speaker 1: active by the time you finally tried to go there.
Speaker 1: Whoever set this up was smart enough to know how
Speaker 1: to put fail safees. And I'll give you that. So
Speaker 1: to get you to get you a sense of the
Speaker 1: mystery yourself, try to try this. Look up the coordinates
Speaker 1: on Google Maps thirty four degrees forty one forty four
Speaker 1: north by seventy six degrees forty one twenty one or
Speaker 1: twenty west. Where do they lead? Imagine finding a hidden
Speaker 1: message or clue there? I don't know what those coordinates
Speaker 1: are actually know what let's just I'm just copy and
Speaker 1: paste that real quick. Good cult members, We're gonna go there.
Speaker 1: We are going to go onto Google Maps, and we
Speaker 1: are going to do that right now, Google Maps up, up, up,
Speaker 1: and let's type that in and let's just see what
Speaker 1: happens here and paced. So this was just a random
Speaker 1: test run here, right. But if they were to tell
Speaker 1: you to go there and try to find some sort
Speaker 1: of a thing on a street lamp or whatever, You're
Speaker 1: going to a beach to find some sort of a
Speaker 1: QR code or something. And so when they give you
Speaker 1: these coordinates, it's very difficult and you have to get there,
Speaker 1: you have to find whatever clue you're trying to find,
Speaker 1: plug it in, get back to your home computer that
Speaker 1: has a tour browser, and all these things. So like
Speaker 1: time was of the essence, and if you couldn't do it,
Speaker 1: you couldn't do it. So these physical clues reinforced the
Speaker 1: idea that Cicada thirty three oh one was more than
Speaker 1: just an Internet based challenge. It had real world implications. However,
Speaker 1: the messages at these locations vanished quickly, building more theories
Speaker 1: that only a select few ment were meant to find them.
Speaker 1: So now we get into some of the theories about Cicada. So,
Speaker 1: despite years of investigation and speculation, no one knows for
Speaker 1: sure who created Cicada thirty three ye old one or why. However,
Speaker 1: several theories have emerged, based on the nature of the puzzles,
Speaker 1: the skills required to solve them, and the secrecy surrounding
Speaker 1: the purpose intelligence agency recruitment. That's an option.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an option.
Speaker 1: It's a viable one.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's that.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either, But and there's let's get
Speaker 1: into it. So one of the most widely believed theories
Speaker 1: is that Cicada thirty three oh one was a covert
Speaker 1: recruitment campaign by a government intelligence agency such as the CIA,
Speaker 1: NSA MI six. Whatever. The puzzles attested highly advanced cryptographies, gegonography, coding,
Speaker 1: and reasoning skills, exactly the kind of expertise intelligence agencies seek.
Speaker 1: These groups have been known to use creative means to
Speaker 1: identify and recruit top talent, so the idea of a
Speaker 1: global puzzle as a recruitment tool isn't far fetched. Still,
Speaker 1: no agency has ever claimed involvement, and I feel like
Speaker 1: they would have.
Speaker 3: I just don't believe that that's the true thing. When
Speaker 3: we get down to what I think, we'll see what
Speaker 3: everyone else thinks.
Speaker 2: But I think that my theory is different.
Speaker 1: So okay. So now there's the private cybersecurity collective, which
Speaker 1: again more of the lines of an online mercenary group
Speaker 1: or something like that, which is a viable option. Another
Speaker 1: theory is that CCTA thirty three to oh one was
Speaker 1: created by a decentralized group of ethical hackers or cybersecurity
Speaker 1: professionals looking to quietly recruit like minded individuals. These collectives
Speaker 1: often value privacy, intellect, and anonymity, traits deeply embedded into
Speaker 1: the cicada's puzzles. The idea here is that puzzles were
Speaker 1: used to filter out only the most persistent and skilled candidates,
Speaker 1: who were then invited to join a secret cybersecurity network.
Speaker 1: Now that has the way more credence behind that one
Speaker 1: than the three letter agency thing. However, I don't I
Speaker 1: could see a possibility. I don't believe that that's the
Speaker 1: actual reasoning behind it, although we could be wrong. Moving
Speaker 1: on cybersecurity awareness campaign, I don't believe it, but let's continue.
Speaker 1: Some believes c CADA thirty three to oh one had
Speaker 1: no recruitment goal at all, but was instead meant to
Speaker 1: raise public awareness about online privacy, encryption, and the importance
Speaker 1: of protecting digital freedoms. The heavy use of cryptographic tools
Speaker 1: and open source techniques, along with the inclusion of philosophical
Speaker 1: messages about liberty and free thought, support this idea. In
Speaker 1: this case, the puzzles would have been a kind of
Speaker 1: digital activism or educational project. This is a lot of work.
Speaker 1: This is a lot of technical know how, physical locations,
Speaker 1: sharing things online, going to the dark web. For it
Speaker 1: to be a cybersecurity awareness campaign.
Speaker 2: I no, I don't believe that at all. I think
Speaker 2: that one's like the least likely, the least likely.
Speaker 1: I think this was more there's more probability of this
Speaker 1: being an NSA recruiting tool than to say we just
Speaker 1: wanted people to be aware of their cybersecurity.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I mean it's like more likely that NASA US
Speaker 3: recruiting people than this.
Speaker 1: Absolutely So the next option is that this was all
Speaker 1: an alternate reality game. Again, I see where they're going.
Speaker 1: I have my own opinions on this. At first glanced
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one resembles an extremely complex alternate
Speaker 1: reality game, a genre of interactive storytelling that uses real
Speaker 1: world elements and online clues. However, there are key differences.
Speaker 1: Most ARGs are linked to a company, product or entertainment
Speaker 1: project and eventually reveal their purpose. So Kada never promoted
Speaker 1: anything and offered no known reward or conclusion. Still, some
Speaker 1: believe it was have been purely artistic or intellectual challenges
Speaker 1: designed for entertainment or a social experiment.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that at all, not even because well,
Speaker 3: I can understand if it was like a Ready Player
Speaker 3: one situation where like the owner was such an brilliant
Speaker 3: person and that he's leaving the golden egg of his
Speaker 3: entire life's work to somebody to carry on and they
Speaker 3: have to be like of true merit.
Speaker 2: But I think that when you read the stuff that
Speaker 2: they said, it's all.
Speaker 3: About truth, and it's all about not trusting the governments,
Speaker 3: not working for the governments, not working for anybody. That
Speaker 3: these are specialized people that believe in wanting the truth.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that is the situation when it
Speaker 2: comes to this.
Speaker 1: Same for entertainment. And granted, like I'm sure the people
Speaker 1: that were I'm sure the people that were solving the puzzles,
Speaker 1: got a good kick out of it, and it was
Speaker 1: fun as hell. Like I see it, I get that
Speaker 1: this is way too intricate for the for the lulls,
Speaker 1: there's no way, but all right, that's a theory. The
Speaker 1: next one, which I think is probably the more probable
Speaker 1: a dark web organization. A more ominous theory, suggests that
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one was connected to a secretive
Speaker 1: organization operating on the dark web. According to this theory,
Speaker 1: the puzzles were used to vet individuals for access to
Speaker 1: hidden networks or illicit operations. While there's no public evidence
Speaker 1: linking Cicada to any criminal or extremist activity, the group's
Speaker 1: total anonymity and sudden disappearance after twenty fourteen leave no
Speaker 1: leave room for this possibility. I think that this is close.
Speaker 1: I don't think that this was uh they're trying to
Speaker 1: find a way to hack the system and steal cryptocurrency, right,
Speaker 1: Although I have also seen that theory that some believe
Speaker 1: that Cicada thirty three to oh one was just a
Speaker 1: way to get the world's best bitcoin minors, And it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that that's the case. Honestly, I could
Speaker 1: see why they would make that conclusion, but there's no
Speaker 1: way I what's.
Speaker 3: Your theory, Well, what's your actual theory when it comes
Speaker 3: to this, like, what do you believe as the truth?
Speaker 1: We have a long way to go as far as
Speaker 1: the episode is concerned, but as of this moment, I'm
Speaker 1: leaning more towards this was I believe this was recruitment.
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. Now for whom and for what purpose,
Speaker 1: that's it's open to speculation. I believe that it was
Speaker 1: something outside of any kind of government, but I also
Speaker 1: believe that it was possibly a Hactavism group. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean QAnon, although there are people that make the
Speaker 1: comparison that this is where QAnon and Anonymous got their people.
Speaker 1: But there's so many documentaries about Anonymous, and there are
Speaker 1: so many people that are known affiliates of Anonymous that
Speaker 1: have left the group that have come forward to talk
Speaker 1: about their experiences. None of it had to do with
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one, so I don't think that's
Speaker 1: necessarily it either. I don't believe that this has anything
Speaker 1: to do with some sort of uh making the world
Speaker 1: a better place thing, although I could see possibly, but
Speaker 1: it's not like Cicada thirty three oh one's actually doing
Speaker 1: the work to fight child trafficking. Like, No, I don't
Speaker 1: believe that at all either. I believe that this was
Speaker 1: to how could I put this to the same level
Speaker 1: that you said of the global elites that are actually
Speaker 1: running the world that we would never know if we
Speaker 1: even if we met them or heard their name. I
Speaker 1: think that this was to do something to that level
Speaker 1: of dark web activism, something that we would never know.
Speaker 1: It's like a James Bond right, whenever he does something
Speaker 1: to save the world and no one ever knows about it,
Speaker 1: but he was doing all this wild shit. I think
Speaker 1: it's like that this group might be out there trying
Speaker 1: to save the world from god knows what, but the
Speaker 1: only reason that they are doing it is and being
Speaker 1: so successful at it, is because we don't know about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's your thoughts as of this moment.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't. Are we going to read about the premius?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, Well.
Speaker 3: Then I'm going to hold off because I already have
Speaker 3: my conclusion of what I think this is. But already
Speaker 3: it yes, because I was I read the text of
Speaker 3: what it actually states and so.
Speaker 2: I have a I have.
Speaker 3: A theory that's not of not of this world. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to hold off until we read that. But
Speaker 3: it's an interesting I mean, I could see logically if
Speaker 3: we weren't going to speculate into the other realms, if
Speaker 3: it was just human based, I would see it being
Speaker 3: more along the elites. But I guess my problem with that.
Speaker 2: Theory is is the they already own everything.
Speaker 3: They already have everything, So them needing you know, intelligent.
Speaker 2: People for a dark web situation or whatever.
Speaker 3: Why would they need that when they pretty much created
Speaker 3: the system, so they own and operate everything. You wouldn't
Speaker 3: need anybody intelligent for that, unless it's more or less
Speaker 3: a breeding stock or they're using them to create something else.
Speaker 2: That's in stock.
Speaker 1: I didn't even consider that option.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what, yeah, I mean, if I was, if
Speaker 3: I was to think of something they where they want
Speaker 3: to be able to boost their numbers or add in
Speaker 3: fresh blood because they've done too many generations of this
Speaker 3: or whatever, you know, because eventually our genes break down.
Speaker 3: Why not take the best of the best, at least
Speaker 3: in the sense of intellectual wise and take them and
Speaker 3: use them as breeding stock. That makes more sense to
Speaker 3: me if you're trying to create something, or you know,
Speaker 3: see what makes the brain different from other people? How
Speaker 3: are these people more intelligent than the normal people? Do
Speaker 3: tests on them, use whatever, use their blood, use actual
Speaker 3: like you know, the celluar makeup pretty much, or I
Speaker 3: can see them using them in the sense of may
Speaker 3: there's like a I don't know, maybe you're training them
Speaker 3: for something. Maybe you're utilizing them for something, creating a
Speaker 3: super weapon, or using them to be able to communicate
Speaker 3: with somebody else, those along those lines.
Speaker 2: I feel like the dark web.
Speaker 3: I feel like they already control everything, they already know everything.
Speaker 3: They're the ones that push forward these things. They allow
Speaker 3: this stuff to come out. So they don't need them
Speaker 3: for anything, but they need them for something. I would
Speaker 3: feel they need them for their actual intellect. What is
Speaker 3: it about these people? Could we get to another dimension
Speaker 3: using them? Could we use them for something else? Like
Speaker 3: that's my theory as of right now.
Speaker 1: I have this wait, So these are the people that
Speaker 1: they're trying to use to colonize Mars.
Speaker 2: I mean it would make sense to use them for use.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're that intellectually intelligent, you have a
Speaker 3: different your brain.
Speaker 2: Is working in a different way than the majority of people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So whatever it is that they how they.
Speaker 3: Are, I would feel like they would want to utilize
Speaker 3: that and then.
Speaker 2: See the patterns of it.
Speaker 3: Because if you look at how many billions of us
Speaker 3: there are, and how many actually genius level intellectual people
Speaker 3: there is is such a minute number comparative.
Speaker 2: How do they get that?
Speaker 3: I would assume that they would see the patterns and
Speaker 3: how do we get that?
Speaker 2: How do we keep unlocking.
Speaker 3: Various portions of the brain If we were reset at
Speaker 3: some point, maybe they're trying to get back to being.
Speaker 2: Where we were at one point in history.
Speaker 1: It's very possible, and that's that's kind of the killer
Speaker 1: of all of this. Despite these theories, no concrete evidence
Speaker 1: has surfaced to confirm any of them. It's all speculation.
Speaker 1: What we're doing right now is as much information as
Speaker 1: anyone else has on the situation. So who's to say
Speaker 1: one way or another? So now where a Cicada thirty
Speaker 1: three oh one. Now, to this day, no one publicly
Speaker 1: claims to have fully solved Cicada thirty three oh one.
Speaker 1: Some individuals reported reaching the final stage, allegedly receiving private
Speaker 1: invitations from Cicada, but no verified proof of what happened
Speaker 1: afterwards exists. A select group of solvers supposedly completed the
Speaker 1: puzzles and were asked to participate in a secret project. However,
Speaker 1: whether this was recruitment, experimentation, or another purpose remains unknown.
Speaker 1: After twenty fourteen's puzzle, the Cicada thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: suddenly stopped posting. In twenty sixteen, a message appeared online
Speaker 1: warning about unauthorized third party groups falsely claiming to be
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one. Whether this message was truly
Speaker 1: from the original group remains debated. Meanwhile, Liber Primus still
Speaker 1: contains unsolved passages. Some believe that unlocking its full meaning
Speaker 1: could reveal the last piece of the mystery. However, with
Speaker 1: no new puzzles and no official communication since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: the fate of Cicada thirty three oh one remains uncertain.
Speaker 1: Unless it resurfaces, the full story behind its elaborate challenges
Speaker 1: may never be known. So now is the mystery really over?
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one is still one one of
Speaker 1: the biggest Internet mysteries. Was it a way of recruiting
Speaker 1: topry top cryptographers, a secret cybersecurity project, or someone else.
Speaker 1: No one knows for sure. After twenty fourteen. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's all it's the biggest mystery. It's the biggest mystery
Speaker 1: on the Internet. But let's talk about this homeboy right here,
Speaker 1: the one who actually was the first to solve the
Speaker 1: first puzzle in twenty twelve. This is from Virginia Tech magazine.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it here. Codecs are Coder Creator by
Speaker 1: Stephen McKay. It was an enigmatic puzzle that only the
Speaker 1: nimbless intellects would take on a series of highly complicated
Speaker 1: cryptographic mind benders containing prime numbers, riddles, and treks through
Speaker 1: assorted fantasy novels, and Virginia Tech's rising sophomore Marcus Weyner,
Speaker 1: solved it in twenty twelve when he was a homeschooled
Speaker 1: fifteen year old in Copper Hill, Virginia fifteen. He was
Speaker 1: fifteen when he solved it in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Oh man, we didn't make me feel stupid.
Speaker 1: No, no, but this is my point.
Speaker 2: I mean all of us, like God, damn it, it's.
Speaker 1: A fifteen year old, A homeschooled kid who's fifteen years
Speaker 1: old found the Cicada thing, and he's like, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give it a whirl and succeeded allegedly.
Speaker 2: And this is him crazy.
Speaker 1: This, this is the guy.
Speaker 2: He looks really smart, he doesn't he he has that smart.
Speaker 1: Vibe he does. He looks like he's just not intellectual superiority,
Speaker 1: but also like he knows he's smarter than you, but
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a dick about it. He
Speaker 1: seems like that guy. Yeh, let's see. The exercise, which
Speaker 1: appeared on the underground website four chan, was created by
Speaker 1: a secret group identified themselves as a Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: oh one, claiming to be in search of those skilled
Speaker 1: at deciphering cryptography the group that the group may have
Speaker 1: been a loose network of tech savvy free speech activists
Speaker 1: looking for new members, or perhaps a poll of programmers
Speaker 1: just having fun. Now all but silent. The group was not,
Speaker 1: from all reports, a cooperation of the government or corporation.
Speaker 1: I should say, as one of only a handful of
Speaker 1: people in the world who have solved the puzzle, all
Speaker 1: of whom were subsequently invited to collaborate on an online
Speaker 1: project related to Internet privacy. Wayner Wanner Don't Know was
Speaker 1: featured in a story about Cicada thirty three to oh
Speaker 1: one in an early January edition of Rolling Stone magazine.
Speaker 1: So Kata puzzle long behind him and the online project
Speaker 1: abandoned Wayner, who's majoring in computer science. Shocker held two
Speaker 1: jobs on campus last year, serving as a computer coder
Speaker 1: for the university's Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System Lab, which
Speaker 1: monitors nearby Strubbles Creek, and providing high performance computer coding
Speaker 1: support for genomic researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute or VBI.
Speaker 1: So Marcus is a unique student that in that he
Speaker 1: realizes he is here to learn and not to show
Speaker 1: off his excellent programming skills, said Zalman Waxman, a postdecorate
Speaker 1: doctorate excuse me, research fellow at VBI. He is willing
Speaker 1: to work on projects in areas where he is less comfortable,
Speaker 1: which is why he wanted to go into bioinformatics, biology
Speaker 1: and genomics. He already is overcoming this and learning a
Speaker 1: new problem solving approach, which makes him far more valuable
Speaker 1: as a future colleague than others with equivalent skills. So
Speaker 1: now this is a Q and A with him. Let's
Speaker 1: hear what he has to say. So, what drew you
Speaker 1: to Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle? He says, I
Speaker 1: have friends who enjoy puzzles such as this. I was
Speaker 1: drawn to thirty three oh one puzzle specifically because it
Speaker 1: was low level file format and networking stuff, very minimal
Speaker 1: and clean from a technical perspective. With most Internet puzzles,
Speaker 1: if you dig deep enough, you can see some nessy
Speaker 1: behind the scenes clutter, which really kills the mystery for me.
Speaker 1: But thirty three oh one managed to avoid any of
Speaker 1: this as far as I can tell. So for me,
Speaker 1: it was clear that the person running the puzzle had
Speaker 1: a very high degree of competence, and I was interested
Speaker 1: in being involved with whatever they were recruiting for. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, how is your work
Speaker 1: and cracking genetic code assisting researchers. He goes into a
Speaker 1: little bit about the the VBI stuff. We're not really
Speaker 1: worried about that on this one. So both your employers
Speaker 1: are dedicated to good causes, curing genetic diseases and tracking
Speaker 1: water quality. Where you drawn to the cause or the challenges.
Speaker 1: He says on one of the reasons I came to
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech was the opportunity to apply my skills to
Speaker 1: useful research. While a student, I had no initial interest
Speaker 1: in water quality or healthcare before I started, But as
Speaker 1: I worked with people who have a real passion for
Speaker 1: each subject matter and seeing the real data and its implications,
Speaker 1: I have become excited about the research. None of us,
Speaker 1: single handily are going to change the world, but we
Speaker 1: are trying to come as close as we can. So
Speaker 1: he seems like a good kid.
Speaker 2: He seems seems like a really good kid.
Speaker 1: You know, Blade, what's your favorite computer tech theme film?
Speaker 1: Both in regard to accuracy and guilt pleasure inaccuracy? Blade
Speaker 1: Runner nineteen eighty two is at the top of my
Speaker 1: list right now.
Speaker 2: Freaking movie.
Speaker 1: I mean, I figured you would get a kick out
Speaker 1: of that one.
Speaker 2: I would because I absolutely love that movie.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, and so basically ask him more about
Speaker 1: him personally and stuff. So, although he was the first
Speaker 1: to break the puzzle, he's obviously not a member of
Speaker 1: Cicada now or he wouldn't be publicly speaking on it. Right.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that he chose janeic Jeneic not testing. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: Jenek like sequencing to break.
Speaker 3: It makes sense to me because if he's so intelligent
Speaker 3: when it comes to coding, DNA is like a code
Speaker 3: that you're trying to solve a crack right and move
Speaker 3: things around. So it's just it's fascinating. At fifteen, he's
Speaker 3: just like, Yeah, it seemed like a you know, pretty
Speaker 3: easy thing and not messy, and they seemed legit.
Speaker 1: And it's like, what what part of that seemed easy
Speaker 1: and clean?
Speaker 3: I'm I have no idea, but good for him. These
Speaker 3: people are so cool that they're so smart, Like I
Speaker 3: wish I was on that level.
Speaker 1: Man, Good for him, and God bless him. Mister Wanner,
Speaker 1: if you're out there awayne, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing
Speaker 1: your name, Mima, kudos to you for doing the mostest.
Speaker 1: So right here we have a fandom article, a list
Speaker 1: of Cicada's references. So these are the other works that
Speaker 1: were brought up. Okay, so the decoy duck image, all right,
Speaker 1: So that was made by a dude named Autumn Wings.
Speaker 1: The source was frost Waterfowls. That was in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: King Arthur's tapestry. This was it's a tapestry. It's a
Speaker 1: real historical tapestry of King Arthur that they squished together
Speaker 1: and formed layers of it on top of each other
Speaker 1: to make an image that you had to decode. That
Speaker 1: was a part of the twenty twelve releases Agrippa by
Speaker 1: William Gibson, which is a book code key, and that
Speaker 1: was also in twenty twelve. So I don't I'm unfamiliar
Speaker 1: with the work itself, but if it has anything to
Speaker 1: do with Cornelius Agrippa, this goes into the esoteric, which
Speaker 1: would make sense based off of all the other things
Speaker 1: we read. Here mebin Gayon Mabinajian, which is by Charlotte Guest,
Speaker 1: is a book code text. You had to go get
Speaker 1: this book and use the code to decipher what the
Speaker 1: actual message was this page, this paragraph, this sentence, this word,
Speaker 1: all the things. Next was the Encyclopedia Britannica. You had
Speaker 1: to you had to go into that good bit here
Speaker 1: a Song of Liberty by William Blake that you had
Speaker 1: to go to Bartleby for that one. And that was
Speaker 1: also a thing too. They were getting sent to them
Speaker 1: bits of sound bites songs that you would have and
Speaker 1: they didn't sound. Some of them sounded weird, some of
Speaker 1: them sounded kind of you know, synthesis levels of of
Speaker 1: whatever kind of technoy. But you had to take these
Speaker 1: and break down the sound bites, to look at the
Speaker 1: numbers designation on them, and then put those into a
Speaker 1: binary code system to get a message out of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's sane.
Speaker 3: It's fucking insane, crazy, Like, that's so many levels to
Speaker 3: this that I don't think this is just some simple
Speaker 3: little thing that Sony did for entertainment that just doesn't
Speaker 3: make any sense.
Speaker 1: I agree whatsoever. The next one is the Marriage of
Speaker 1: Heaven and Hell from William Blake. We talked about that
Speaker 1: one Lieber Alvell Legis, which is the Book of Laws
Speaker 1: by Alistair Crowley. You had to use that to get
Speaker 1: a certain code text the New Inquisition. Oh I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: So William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. That
Speaker 1: was the last one from twenty twelve, and that was
Speaker 1: like your second chance to figure this out if you
Speaker 1: couldn't figure it out from a Song of Liberty. Both
Speaker 1: were from William Blake, by the way. Next twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: we start off with Alistair Crowley. Next, the New Inquisition
Speaker 1: by Robert Anton Wilson, Self Reliance and Other Essays by
Speaker 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, and that started the twenty fourteen releases.
Speaker 1: So for twenty thirteen you only had these two releases,
Speaker 1: one from Crowley and one from Wilson, and so there
Speaker 1: was other things. There was other online things, but as
Speaker 1: far as the book sources go, this was it. So
Speaker 1: for twenty fourteen, Self Reliance and Other Essays. Portrait of
Speaker 1: Andreas del Peril, which is from Goya. Ecent's not sure
Speaker 1: and it was from the National Gallery, so it's an
Speaker 1: art piece. Image of Grigory resputant. In twenty fourteen, you
Speaker 1: had to use that one trio Trio Sonata in G Major,
Speaker 1: which is from Bach. You had to go and listen
Speaker 1: to this to find source codes from it to use
Speaker 1: to make a codex, which I love that they used
Speaker 1: Bach because Bach has always had a mathematical quality to it,
Speaker 1: or at least I've always felt so. And two years
Speaker 1: ago and I was speaking to an opera singer about it.
Speaker 1: It's very rare that I get to actually like chop
Speaker 1: it up on some nerd levels about classic music, and
Speaker 1: he agreed that like Bach was mathematic everything was done
Speaker 1: that way on purpose, because he gave a structure. His
Speaker 1: actual quote, I love this into death. He's a member
Speaker 1: of the Christian nonprophlem a part of he said back.
Speaker 1: Gave us structure so that Mozart could give us fire. Okay,
Speaker 1: And so looking at the Trio Sonado and g major
Speaker 1: Bock's mathematical principles that he applied to his music, you
Speaker 1: were supposed to take this in twenty fourteen and extrapolate
Speaker 1: numbers that you would then put into some sort of
Speaker 1: a source code binary hexadecimal. Who knows to get out
Speaker 1: a message that would lead you to another clue.
Speaker 3: That's interesting that they so many of this ties together
Speaker 3: with each other in different ways. I'm curious to see
Speaker 3: when we get to the end of this, what your
Speaker 3: theory is.
Speaker 1: I mean all open to interpretation, honestly, and I'm not
Speaker 1: like married to my idea as far as what this
Speaker 1: was very very subject to change on this. The next
Speaker 1: one was I by Escher mc Escher it's an image.
Speaker 1: And then Golden escher Bach, which is an internal golden braid.
Speaker 1: This was by Douglas Hofstadter. And this is a book
Speaker 1: that you had to go in and find the code
Speaker 1: for all of these things. That was twenty fourteen and
Speaker 1: that was it. Everything else is silent. And on this
Speaker 1: there's also jamatria. Let's see it going down here. There's
Speaker 1: JPEGs that are used, hex dumps, which is within the
Speaker 1: hexodesmer Caesar ciphers, URLs, outguest PGPs, mayan numerals book code UTC,
Speaker 1: which is coordinated Universal Time QR codes that were used
Speaker 1: the tour Network or dot Onion sites RSA. That's the
Speaker 1: second chance part. In the second chance part aka Amdi
Speaker 1: puzzle was mi id i midi perl in the RSA
Speaker 1: message xo R, which is used a lot throughout the
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen puzzle Jamatria converting words into numbers and vice versa.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of mostly blank and outguests. Telenet,
Speaker 1: which was an Internet protocol used in twenty thirteen puzzles
Speaker 1: to communicate with websites without the web browse sure Schmir's
Speaker 1: secret sharing scheme. This is used in a twenty thirteen puzzle.
Speaker 1: In the phone call part, you would receive a phone call.
Speaker 1: You had to like actually get a there was a
Speaker 1: telephone number that you would get. You had to call
Speaker 1: and they would there was a message that you would
Speaker 1: get that you were supposed to take as the source
Speaker 1: for your next clue. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when when I'm looking into this stuff, so I'm like,
Speaker 3: as I'm listening to you, I'm looking up different variations
Speaker 3: and sources of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So what I find interesting is so the portrait of
Speaker 3: Andreus and dres So he's actually known as being his
Speaker 3: main thing even though he.
Speaker 2: Was a sitter of the Doctor of Law.
Speaker 3: His main thing was known for being a collector of
Speaker 3: the paintings by Goya.
Speaker 2: Now if you look up Goya.
Speaker 3: In himself, he paints a lot of interesting things, but
Speaker 3: one of his most famous is a Luciferian one of
Speaker 3: Lucifer and Witches of the Sabbath by the Horn God.
Speaker 3: He also has a lot of demonic ones that he
Speaker 3: does paintings.
Speaker 2: For his paintings, he.
Speaker 3: Has like normal people, but a lot of it comes
Speaker 3: back to the devil and different various occult things as well.
Speaker 2: And then if you're looking into.
Speaker 3: The marriage of heaven and hell, yeah, it's the duality
Speaker 3: of existence, merging the opposites of good and evil. Changes
Speaker 3: traditional religious views, advocating for personal experience over dogma pretty much.
Speaker 2: A lot of what they've put into this is very symbolized,
Speaker 2: very occult, very good and evil, truth and not truth
Speaker 2: human experience. And then we're not even to get into
Speaker 2: the previous yet, but there's a lot that is pointing
Speaker 2: to this being.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say angels and demon vibe, but
Speaker 3: it definitely seems that there is something maybe the fairies
Speaker 3: to this, maybe darker because if like, just going off
Speaker 3: of three sources that I've looked at, all of which
Speaker 3: have ties to good and evil, heaven and hell, that
Speaker 3: kind of that kind of religious I wouldn't even say religious,
Speaker 3: just that kind of you know, balance of duality and
Speaker 3: personal experience and stuff like that. So it's it's interesting,
Speaker 3: and even in some of the stuff that they wrote,
Speaker 3: when I was looking at different passages that they wrote
Speaker 3: into this, it was a lot to do with personal
Speaker 3: like how people are in and of itself, are they good?
Speaker 2: Are the evil?
Speaker 3: Different questioning of what that actually means.
Speaker 2: It's interesting though that if you wouldn't have.
Speaker 3: Looked up who this person was and how he was connected,
Speaker 3: because if you just look at the person himself, he's
Speaker 3: really he's not really that exciting.
Speaker 2: But it's who he's associated with.
Speaker 3: And how he's known as being the top collector of
Speaker 3: that specific Baphomet kind of.
Speaker 2: Paintings and stuff like that, which I.
Speaker 3: Just found it to be weird that all of it
Speaker 3: ties together.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying that there was no occult or
Speaker 1: spiritual significance to any of this, but especially when you're
Speaker 1: looking at some of these books they were using. They
Speaker 1: could have used any book for this, right, All you
Speaker 1: had to do was give a code. You could have used.
Speaker 1: You could have used the book Holes, you could have
Speaker 1: used Moby Dick, right, and just given the same code,
Speaker 1: and not the same code, you would have to write
Speaker 1: out the code and the numbers and all the things.
Speaker 1: So is it that they were trying to force these
Speaker 1: people into esoteric and gnostic works to try to get
Speaker 1: it or were they trying to test to see if
Speaker 1: these people were willing to do whatever it took. Were
Speaker 1: these people that were willing to question certain narratives or
Speaker 1: wouldn't get offended by reading Crowley's works and things like this, right,
Speaker 1: All these are ways of filtering out the ones that
Speaker 1: they didn't want. Possibly it was to get them to
Speaker 1: read into these things. And perhaps there was some dark
Speaker 1: occult symbolism behind it. Maybe it was just the same,
Speaker 1: Maybe it could have been any innocuous symbol, but they
Speaker 1: chose to make it more of the dark and ominous
Speaker 1: for that purpose. Like I don't know, but to.
Speaker 3: Use Krawley, to use this guy that had Collectsgoya, which
Speaker 3: is I mean, he has other works, but his famous
Speaker 3: for doing more the Satanic route of things.
Speaker 2: You know, to put in.
Speaker 3: Certain stuff, I mean, to put in the premus ind
Speaker 3: of itself that tells you pretty much like, hey, be careful,
Speaker 3: what you're gonna find in here is going to be
Speaker 3: pretty intense. Like it's just interesting that they selected these
Speaker 3: types of things. And if I'm gonna have to look
Speaker 3: at it, I'm pretty sure that there was a math.
Speaker 3: Bach made a piece that was questionable of the way
Speaker 3: that the sounds were that caused you to have like
Speaker 3: different vibrations. I know I heard it somewhere, but I
Speaker 3: would have to look into it more.
Speaker 1: But I know Mozart did that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Bach did or I mean, honestly, who's to say, right,
Speaker 1: Bac very well may have done that on purpose. Continuing on,
Speaker 1: TML was used for exploring websites and onions. Throughout the
Speaker 1: puzzle TCP At the end stage of twenty thirteen, this
Speaker 1: puzzle puzzles the winner needed to code TCP servers. Base
Speaker 1: sixty four, which we talked about is a scheme to
Speaker 1: encode unprintable bytes into printable characters. Visionaire, we talked about
Speaker 1: that code that they were using to decode certain things
Speaker 1: in Graham. This was used in the third Onion in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen puzzle. Column transposition cipher used in the third
Speaker 1: Onion at bash was used in the second Onion totient
Speaker 1: function mentioned in the Third Onion twenty fourteen puzzle and
Speaker 1: used to decrypt the final page of LP or Liber
Speaker 1: primusob which is out of band data and then hash
Speaker 1: a hash function in any function that can be used
Speaker 1: to map data or arbitrary sized to fixed sized values.
Speaker 1: So again they he kind of went all over the
Speaker 1: place on this. They were using literary sources, they were
Speaker 1: using technological sources, they were using ancient coded text and
Speaker 1: things that you would have to use, a Caesar cipher,
Speaker 1: a Visioneer cipher, whatever the case. And of course they
Speaker 1: use a couple of different websites four Chan, Reddit, mitke server, Twitter,
Speaker 1: minger or iminger infotoom paste bin and uh yeah this
Speaker 1: was wild things from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen and
Speaker 1: still no real answers, right, So.
Speaker 2: Now that's crazy.
Speaker 1: We're going to get hubis gist dot, get hub instantly
Speaker 1: share codes and snippets. So this is a detailed breakdown
Speaker 1: of the Cicada thirty three oh one puzzles, their solutions
Speaker 1: and associated messages.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're starting off at the top here. We're
Speaker 1: not going to read all of it, but actually no,
Speaker 1: we can read some of it. Why not here? So, uh,
Speaker 1: the first one home is zoom in a little bit
Speaker 1: because my eyes ain't what they used to be. I'm
Speaker 1: getting old cult members, getting old r n p R
Speaker 1: n p R and p. Here is a more detailed
Speaker 1: breakdown of the Cicada thirty three oh one puzzles, their solutions,
Speaker 1: and associated messages. So puzzle number one, the first Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one puzzle, was posted on four Chan
Speaker 1: January twenty twelve, involved an image that contained a message
Speaker 1: hidden using steganography. The message led to a book code that,
Speaker 1: when applied to the book liber alvel Ligis by Alistair Crowley,
Speaker 1: produced a message that directed the solver to an onion
Speaker 1: website containing another message right. The solution the image used
Speaker 1: in the puzzle containing a hidden message in the form
Speaker 1: of a string of characters. This message, when decrypted using
Speaker 1: a steganography tool called Outguests, produced a link to a
Speaker 1: subreddit containing a series of encrypted messages. Using the key
Speaker 1: ao clock, the messages were decrypted and compiled into a
Speaker 1: book code. The book code pointed to a specific page,
Speaker 1: line and word in a book of law from Crowley
Speaker 1: that revealed a message call us.
Speaker 3: Okay using that book, they could have used any other book.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly so. The message call us led to a
Speaker 1: tour website that contained another message, Hello, we are looking
Speaker 1: for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have designed
Speaker 1: a test. There is a message hidden in this image.
Speaker 1: Find it and it will lead you on the road
Speaker 1: to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few
Speaker 1: that will make it all the way through. Good Luck
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one. So you had to go into
Speaker 1: Crowley's work just to get there the first step of
Speaker 1: basically hey, welcome.
Speaker 2: That's it's definitely done intentionally, I think so.
Speaker 1: The second puzzle was posted in twenty thirteen and involved
Speaker 1: a list of complex prime numbers and a series of
Speaker 1: symbols that needed to be combined in a particular way
Speaker 1: to reveal a message. The message was a book code
Speaker 1: that directed the solver to a physical location in the world.
Speaker 1: We talked about that the symbols in the puzzle were
Speaker 1: arranged in a spiral pattern and when combined with the
Speaker 1: prime numbers, revealed a message in base sixty four code.
Speaker 1: The message was a book code that pointed to a
Speaker 1: specific page and line in a book which we talked
Speaker 1: about Alistair Crowley that revealed the message call us at
Speaker 1: telephone number two one four three nine zero nine six
Speaker 1: zero eight. Yeah, they gave actual phone number on this one.
Speaker 1: When called, the number played a pre recorded message of
Speaker 1: a robotic voice reading out a series of letters and numbers.
Speaker 1: The message call us at telephone number a bop was
Speaker 1: the solution to the second Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle,
Speaker 1: so with that. The third Cicada thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: puzzle was posted in twenty fourteen and involved the Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one Twitter account that posted an image
Speaker 1: containing a message hidden using stecnography. Again, the message directed
Speaker 1: the solver to a tour website containing another message that
Speaker 1: led to a series of quizzes on obscure topics. The
Speaker 1: full solution to this puzzle has not been made public.
Speaker 1: They sent a test like a personality quiz yeah in
Speaker 1: puzzle number three, and you could only find it if
Speaker 1: you went to the dark web and knew where to look.
Speaker 1: So the solution, like we said or we read that
Speaker 1: one already. The message hidden in the Twitter image directed
Speaker 1: of the sovereign to a tour website with another message.
Speaker 1: But the full solution has never been made public. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You would get sent something basically saying
Speaker 1: congratulation you passed the test, or thank you for your submission,
Speaker 1: will let you know something soon, essentially, right, ok So
Speaker 1: puzzle number four, the fourth Cicada thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: puzzle was posted in twenty sixteen. Allegedly they stopped in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, but this is when that twenty sixteen happened, right,
Speaker 1: And involved a music file that contained spectagram a spectrogram
Speaker 1: rather that when decoded, produced a message that led to
Speaker 1: a website containing a message written in ruins. The music
Speaker 1: file contained a spectrogram that which we talked about that
Speaker 1: basically when decoded using a spectrogram reading tool produce an
Speaker 1: image with the word Tiberius Claudius Caesar. Would we would
Speaker 1: know who that is?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Du yes Caesar. The Fort Cicada thirty three h one
Speaker 1: puzzle was posted in twenty sixteen. We talked about the
Speaker 1: music file and wh decoded it. Lets you know about this,
Speaker 1: produce a message that led to a website containing a
Speaker 1: message written in Runes, and I think that they were
Speaker 1: letting you know that you were going to need a
Speaker 1: Caesar cipher in order to break that code. The Fort
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle was posted on Twitter
Speaker 1: and twenty fourteen involved a music file named four thirty
Speaker 1: three four Apostrophe thirty three Quotations by John Cage, which
Speaker 1: is a piece of music that consists of four minutes
Speaker 1: and thirty three seconds of listening or excuse me, four
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. However, upon analyzing
Speaker 1: the spectrogram in the music file, a message could be
Speaker 1: decoded using a technique called steganography, which involves hiding messages
Speaker 1: within other data.
Speaker 3: Which is interesting that they chose thirty three as well,
Speaker 3: which is the symbol for enlightenment.
Speaker 1: Right now, I agree.
Speaker 2: And spiritual growth.
Speaker 3: So it's strange that they chose specifically thirty three.
Speaker 1: Very true, very Masonic number, which is why a lot
Speaker 1: of people think that that might be the connection to
Speaker 1: the Freemasons. And again I'm not saying that there's no connection.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that of all of the things we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, that's I don't know, See, that's the case,
Speaker 1: right right. The message hidden in the spectrogram led to
Speaker 1: a website that contained a message written in a variant
Speaker 1: of Runic alphabet, which is an ancient writing system used
Speaker 1: by the Germanic and Nordic people. The Runic message translates
Speaker 1: into English reads beware of false paths, always speak truth
Speaker 1: and do not fear, for it is time for you
Speaker 1: to seek the ultimate truth. And it repeats that three times.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The message also contained an image of a cicada
Speaker 1: insect along with the phrase preliminary training completed check back
Speaker 1: on the first or January fifth, twenty seventeen seven zeteen
Speaker 1: hundred Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: This was the image that was posted a golden one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is interesting because the golden the golden sphere
Speaker 3: and everything else with a lot of different things that
Speaker 3: are about enlightenment is all golden as well.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: They have a ton of symbolism just to be a
Speaker 3: quote unquote fake thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a way too many symbolism for this.
Speaker 1: So now let's go to this next article here from
Speaker 1: clevcode dot org Joel Erickson or Joel, I don't know
Speaker 1: he would pronounce it. Uh. He basically was talking about
Speaker 1: the Cicada thirty three oh one and we're gonna read
Speaker 1: it now, so we already talked about what it's from.
Speaker 1: Top five areas Unsolved Internet Mysteries. Cool cool, cool cool.
Speaker 1: The following is a blog post that I originally posted
Speaker 1: on January thirteenth, twenty twelve, while the puzzle was still ongoing,
Speaker 1: and at the time the puzzle had started to get
Speaker 1: a lot of attention on various Internet forums. As it
Speaker 1: turns out, I was one of the few that were
Speaker 1: working solo on solving it. Most of the people that
Speaker 1: eventually got far were working in teams with groups of people.
Speaker 1: But for me, the whole point was to try to
Speaker 1: solve it myself. I've always enjoyed a challenge. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, the story of Cicada thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: was even turned into a movie, and I can either
Speaker 1: confirm or deny that this is roughly how it all
Speaker 1: went down. So apparently there's a movie on thirty three
Speaker 1: ZHO one which I find fascinating. Yeah. Actually a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, we might be able to play a little
Speaker 1: sex segment of it.
Speaker 4: Now, let's see, mister Black, how did you first get
Speaker 4: involved with Cicada three three zero one?
Speaker 3: Actually I should back.
Speaker 5: It up a few people around here for about twenty
Speaker 5: percent for quality service. But no, you drop fifty cent
Speaker 5: equating to what point five nine three percent on a
Speaker 5: bill that's eighty four dollars and thirty one sense there's.
Speaker 1: Some kind of walking calculator freak, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 5: So I have perfect recall told a couple of strangers
Speaker 5: in the dark night about some douchebags credit card. Now,
Speaker 5: the Cicada files, that's a click of the mouse is
Speaker 5: sincerely regret.
Speaker 2: They're elusive, kind of like the IT department of the Ilumnati.
Speaker 2: You can't make this shit up.
Speaker 3: At this point, you got involved with the NSA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just about. Let's see how cute you are when
Speaker 1: I found your paint back Jesus Carver, take it down
Speaker 1: a knoch, just take it down a knoch. I thought
Speaker 1: you said I was bad cop. No, I said you
Speaker 1: are a bad cop. We would like your help with something.
Speaker 6: You get your ass back to Hauntank Cicada and help
Speaker 6: us bring them down.
Speaker 2: You got in and you weren't gonna tell me.
Speaker 1: You have done well to come this far.
Speaker 5: Everyone who finished this game disappeared.
Speaker 2: You guys need to stop now.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting murdered by some crazy ass cold leader.
Speaker 1: Some of us have things flew show yourself.
Speaker 2: Saper has to kick some secret in, said booty. Do
Speaker 2: not try who I'm smart us.
Speaker 4: You will lose.
Speaker 5: Look, I mean I could go on and on and
Speaker 5: on and on.
Speaker 1: Such a dick.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of images there that was like
Speaker 1: what the fuck are we looking at here?
Speaker 2: But sure it was like does he have a dick
Speaker 2: on his forehead?
Speaker 3: And then it played in and it was in his mouth,
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, that's exactly.
Speaker 2: What I did see.
Speaker 1: That was like a chindo but on his mouth, which
Speaker 1: like that's a thing, that's totally a thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was a random part, but interesting. They mentioned
Speaker 3: an Illuminati and everything else into it.
Speaker 1: I do want to watch this movie now, And be honest,
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was a thing. And that's not
Speaker 1: like an unknown cast by any mean. I recognize some
Speaker 1: of those actors.
Speaker 2: Sure, well that's the guy from.
Speaker 1: Reacher Preacher, Yeah, Reacher, who also played Fad from Blue
Speaker 1: Mountain State. But I would love to see this movie now.
Speaker 1: Didn't know that was a thing before we started this research.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so how it all began on January four,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. We talked about this already, the image uploaded
Speaker 1: to four chan. It led you down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: This is the image. This is the actual message itself. Hello,
Speaker 1: we are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them,
Speaker 1: we advise a test. There's a message hidden in this image.
Speaker 1: Find it and it will lead you down a road
Speaker 1: to find us. We look forward to meeting the few
Speaker 1: that will make it all the way through. Good Luck
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one. And then he saw about His
Speaker 1: first thought was that it was to use steganography to
Speaker 1: hide a message, and since it was a JPEG image,
Speaker 1: I tried using Steg detect excuse me by Neil's provos
Speaker 1: in case one of the detectable schemes was used. Since
Speaker 1: Steg detect have not been updated in almost seven years,
Speaker 1: I didn't really get my hopes up that high, but
Speaker 1: it was always worth a shot. The results can be
Speaker 1: seen below, and that's when they saw the Tiberius Claudus. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't detect any common s technography schemes, but notified
Speaker 1: me of sixty one appended bites of ACESCII text. Since
Speaker 1: my move would have been to use strings, I would
Speaker 1: have discovered this anyway, but Steg detect was kind enough
Speaker 1: to tell me directly instead. So let's see what we have.
Speaker 1: Tiberius Claudius Caesar. This quote obviously a shift of cipher
Speaker 1: of some sort, also known as a Caesar cipher, with
Speaker 1: lxxt greater than thirty three being ciphered version of the
Speaker 1: HTTP colon slash slash. I didn't know that it is again,
Speaker 1: but that's again. This is it. So this is the
Speaker 1: ciphered version of the HTTP thing that we have on
Speaker 1: every website ever. Thirty three No, no, no, lxxt greater
Speaker 1: than thirty three. So the slash slash is thirty three.
Speaker 1: Apparently I didn't know that, but.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're all about as symbolism.
Speaker 1: Here we are indeed, so a shift c replaces each
Speaker 1: letter in the plain text with a letter or in
Speaker 1: this case, an arbitrary character with a letter a certain
Speaker 1: number of positions down the alphabet. So let's compare it
Speaker 1: to the values and suppose a plain text that we
Speaker 1: see in the shift value. In this particular case, this
Speaker 1: might have been a bit overkilled, since we could have
Speaker 1: just as well manually counted the distance between H and
Speaker 1: I and the alphabet or H and L. I should
Speaker 1: say it is probably not a coincidence that Claudius happens
Speaker 1: to be the fourth emperor of the Roman Empire and
Speaker 1: the shift value happens to be four, So fair enough
Speaker 1: to decipher this A pearl on a pearl one line
Speaker 1: is enough. So then we have this image right, which
Speaker 1: we talked about already. It seems the image you are
Speaker 1: el commut. Okay, it seems like the challenge is a
Speaker 1: bit harder than a Caesar cipher after all. Note that
Speaker 1: the message contains the word out and guess, though, which
Speaker 1: could be a hint that we are actually supposed to
Speaker 1: use an old outguess tool to extract the hidden message. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: outguess is also developed by Neil's Provos and is available
Speaker 1: for download from the same site as steg Detect. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it seems like stag detect is the only able to
Speaker 1: detect when the older out guests has been used and
Speaker 1: not out guests point one three instead of out Guess
Speaker 1: point two. Again, they're getting into things that I know
Speaker 1: nothing about. Using out guests point two with the minus
Speaker 1: R option immediately reveals a hidden message in the original image.
Speaker 1: So they have these bytes, they have these numbers, but
Speaker 1: it's Outguess thirty three oh one jpeg and thirty three
Speaker 1: oh one text. So there's a hidden message that can
Speaker 1: be found. Is this a hyperlink? Let's see, let's go
Speaker 1: to the hyperlink. So this is the book code. This
Speaker 1: was the actual message, and at the bottom says here's
Speaker 1: the book code. To find the book and more information,
Speaker 1: go to a reddit website. And then this was the
Speaker 1: book code, and at the bottom it says, good luck
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get flagged. I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe we're also a conspiracy show, so we're
Speaker 1: probably on some lists. It'd be like that. So now
Speaker 1: things are actually getting interesting, although the challenges have not
Speaker 1: been required any particularly advanced skills yet, which I respectfully disagree.
Speaker 1: But okay, just looking at that duck image of being like, oh,
Speaker 1: they clearly mean out guests and a different version of
Speaker 1: it because it's made from the same guy. But I
Speaker 1: think that requires an advanced set of skills to even
Speaker 1: see that shit.
Speaker 2: Half of the shit that you've read them like, m.
Speaker 1: Yes, the same same someone has obviously been putting some
Speaker 1: work into it. The hidden message says that we could
Speaker 1: go to the following yurl, which is a Reddit thread
Speaker 1: which you know what, Let's see if we can click
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, this is it. Hello, we have found
Speaker 1: the individuals we saw. Thus our month long journey ends
Speaker 1: for now. Thank you for dedication or excuse me, thank
Speaker 1: you for your dedication and effort. If you were unable
Speaker 1: to complete the test or did not receive an email,
Speaker 1: do not despair. There will be more opportunities like this one.
Speaker 1: Thank you all thirty three oh one ps. And he
Speaker 1: gave a long list of numbers and slashes and things
Speaker 1: and stuff, so you were supposed to just take that
Speaker 1: no to you know, find the message. Yep, that's the
Speaker 1: thing anyway. The hidden message also includes a so called
Speaker 1: book codes consisting consisting of a number of lines with
Speaker 1: two digits separated by a colon on each, and we
Speaker 1: talked about that already. Some of the book ciphers here,
Speaker 1: So when visiting the Reddit page we can make a
Speaker 1: number of observations. Most notably, there are a number of
Speaker 1: posts by the pseudonym cage throttle us that seems to
Speaker 1: consist of encoded text, which we can assume to be
Speaker 1: the book. It looks like an ordinary Caesar sipher may
Speaker 1: have been used, but on a closer look, no shift
Speaker 1: values results in readable text. It seems most likely that
Speaker 1: a key of some sort is required to decode the text.
Speaker 1: Looking closer at the page, we can also see that
Speaker 1: the title is It's a lot of letters and numbers.
Speaker 1: The uur self is truncated version of this to the
Speaker 1: right below subscribe button, the title text is repeated and
Speaker 1: verify seven A thirty five, zero, nine zero F is
Speaker 1: written underneath. We can also see pictures of some Mayan
Speaker 1: numbers on the top of the page. Mayan numbers are
Speaker 1: quite logical, at least from zero to nineteen, A dot
Speaker 1: equals one and a vertical line equals five. Two lines
Speaker 1: thus equals ten one line with two dots equals seven,
Speaker 1: five and two cool so on. And if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen Mayan numbers, it looks it's just dashes with some
Speaker 1: dots on top. But for the Mayans this was their
Speaker 1: mathematical numerology, which is great. There's also a symbol resembling
Speaker 1: a rugby ball that equals zero, so they had that too.
Speaker 1: They understood the concept of zero. So many people are
Speaker 1: like man, the Greeks are the first to even think
Speaker 1: of what zero meant. Ancient Maya already knew that zero
Speaker 1: meant no value. It was like a placeholder kind of thing.
Speaker 1: The number sequence using written using the Maya numbers is
Speaker 1: as follows ten two, fourteen, seven nineteen six eighteen twelve
Speaker 1: seven eight seventeen zero nineteen. Now, comparing this with the
Speaker 1: long thing in the title, we can see that the
Speaker 1: number below ten in the sequence above is also found
Speaker 1: in this string at the same positions.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, like, yeah, this is just so easy. What.
Speaker 1: Also, note that instead of the ten, we have a A,
Speaker 1: instead of fourteen, we have a E, and so on
Speaker 1: up to j being nineteen. Since the title of the
Speaker 1: page contains twenty three characters and there were only thirteen
Speaker 1: maya numbers. It is quite likely that we are supposed
Speaker 1: to continue convert characters from the title to numbers, and
Speaker 1: that gives us and I'm not going to rea all
Speaker 1: those numbers off. This could very well be the key
Speaker 1: required to decode the text regarding the verify in those numbers.
Speaker 1: It may refer to any number of things. A PGB
Speaker 1: key ID, however, a good assumption, since it consists of
Speaker 1: thirty two bit value normally encoded as eight hex characters,
Speaker 1: and since PGP keys can be used to verify the
Speaker 1: signature and thus the authenticity of messages signed with a
Speaker 1: PGP key, this could quite This could be quite handy
Speaker 1: in case the challenges go on, and in case people
Speaker 1: decide to drop false leads to people working on it.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's an article where he basically breaks
Speaker 1: it all the way down. But you see the level
Speaker 1: of intellect. Yes, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: That's that's crazy, and yeah, he goes into more details
Speaker 3: and all this stuff and how to do it.
Speaker 1: He shows all the messages, He shows how he got
Speaker 1: to where he was. The file Reddit text consists of
Speaker 1: the lines posting the reddit page so.
Speaker 2: Far that one says king Arthur.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's all its about, yeah, the Guinevere and her
Speaker 1: it's all of these things. It ties in so many
Speaker 1: different things. There's no way to not see that. And
Speaker 1: then also read the King Arthur's story to get what
Speaker 1: the next clue is supposed to be. So crazy he
Speaker 1: used bash script to get to the next part. He's
Speaker 1: talking about upper cases and lower cases and column ciphers
Speaker 1: and R right before the s on this line as well,
Speaker 1: from the word daggers that's also used. Another thing in
Speaker 1: common for these particular lines of texts that they include
Speaker 1: a period somewhere before the character that has been decoded incorrectly.
Speaker 1: If we assume that periods, which in sentences should count
Speaker 1: as two characters instead of one. When applying it to
Speaker 1: the book code, we get this, which looks a bit neater,
Speaker 1: and it shows uh, call us at the telephone number
Speaker 1: two one four, three nine nine six eight. So that's
Speaker 1: low key.
Speaker 2: Want to call it a live here.
Speaker 1: Call it raven, call it on your phone, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it to you two to one four hang
Speaker 1: on hand, all right, and put it on speakerphone too,
Speaker 1: so we can all hear. Okay, two one four, three
Speaker 1: nine zero three nine zero nine six zero eight.
Speaker 2: Nine six zero eight.
Speaker 3: Man, I swear, if I get some crazy people show
Speaker 3: up in my house, we're.
Speaker 1: About to get swatted. No, but this is open sources
Speaker 1: all over the internet. Of course, it's the number that
Speaker 1: no longer works anymore. And that's the other thing. It
Speaker 1: only worked for so long. It was only online for
Speaker 1: I mean maybe a few months. But they said that
Speaker 1: this all took place in one month, so in January
Speaker 1: of twenty twelve, and then January twenty thirteen, January twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: after the one month it was over Allegedly.
Speaker 2: It's a Texas number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Austin.
Speaker 3: No, it's Carrol Carrollton. It's Carrollton, Texas.
Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if that would have like, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like saying like a two two five is a
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge number, but like that's not necessarily it's like
Speaker 1: the surrounding areas too. I don't know. I heard somewhere
Speaker 1: when I was doing my research that it was an
Speaker 1: Austin number. But if Carrollton is close to then fine,
Speaker 1: or if that's fuck out there and out biopasso. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm looking if it's on a lay line.
Speaker 3: If Carrollton is on a lay line, potentially, Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: at this point. I feel like there's nothing that is.
Speaker 3: I feel like everything is super intentional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair then.
Speaker 3: And so it's like I've you know, I feel like
Speaker 3: anything and everything is very intentional with these people, So
Speaker 3: why would it not be so?
Speaker 1: With that? Right, it's a Texas based phone number. They
Speaker 1: put some effort in obviously when calling the number one is,
Speaker 1: or rather was the number has now been deactivated. Wow,
Speaker 1: we should have read that before we called. Greeted by
Speaker 1: the following message, very good, you have done well. There
Speaker 1: are three prime numbers associated with the original final JPEG image.
Speaker 1: Thirty three oh one is one of them. You will
Speaker 1: have to find the other two. Multiply all three of
Speaker 1: these numbers together and add a dot com to find
Speaker 1: the next step. Good luck and goodbye. So this is
Speaker 1: where they actually went and found the pixels, because they
Speaker 1: just said that thirty three oh one was one of them.
Speaker 1: And if you look at it, five oh three and
Speaker 1: five oh nine, if you realize, if you looked at it,
Speaker 1: it's not a perfect square. It was almost a perfect square.
Speaker 1: So when you took the number of pixels on the
Speaker 1: width and the length of this thirty three oh one
Speaker 1: times five oh three times five oh nine, you would
Speaker 1: get this number eight four five one four five one
Speaker 1: two seven. Okay. And when looking at the metadata for
Speaker 1: the original image that was noted, when you would type
Speaker 1: that in as a dot com, it would send you
Speaker 1: to another website and then you would have to use
Speaker 1: that it would show the Cicada countdown.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 3: So apparently it is on a lay line that is
Speaker 3: referred to in the Bible as well.
Speaker 1: Texas.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is so. It says it says.
Speaker 3: That significance of Carrollton, Texas being on a lay line
Speaker 3: in the Bible, and it talks about lay lines, and
Speaker 3: it talks about it doesn't specifically mention lay lines, but
Speaker 3: people connected to it. And it says that Carrollton's location
Speaker 3: may seem significant and spiritual and metaphysical reasons.
Speaker 2: Okay, So apparently it is.
Speaker 1: So it's it's all tied in.
Speaker 3: It's twenty eight seventeen, I guess, or that's what I
Speaker 3: haven't read all the way into it. I'm just briefly
Speaker 3: skimming it, but it is tight in.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I told you everything is somehow intentional with these
Speaker 3: people obviously.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Point first is my point when we get to it,
Speaker 3: of what I believe is actually happening.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. So now, whenever you found these numbers
Speaker 1: and you've got you've multiplied them to get this number,
Speaker 1: and you went to a dot com, it brought you
Speaker 1: to the Cicada countdown. And once the countdown was over,
Speaker 1: it due to all of this code, right, and we
Speaker 1: talked about that there was a Caada countdown that was
Speaker 1: going on. This is a key, and so when you
Speaker 1: signed in using the Cicada three three zero one key,
Speaker 1: the challenge so far had been quite fun but rather
Speaker 1: different experience. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
Speaker 1: When the countdown was finished at seventeen hundred UTC January ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, it was replaced by a string of digits
Speaker 1: resembling GPS coordinates. This is whenever we got to the
Speaker 1: real world applications, and there was some fourteen places around
Speaker 1: the world where you had to go and find those
Speaker 1: QR codes. So again this is from a person who
Speaker 1: actually did the work and went there and did all
Speaker 1: these things right. They both also included a twenty two
Speaker 1: line book code. Both of them included text the product
Speaker 1: of the first two primes at line three and fifteen,
Speaker 1: and one of them also included the text the first
Speaker 1: prime at line eight. This probably means that the characters
Speaker 1: on these positions should be replaced with the numbers described.
Speaker 1: Note that the definition of a prime number is a
Speaker 1: natural number greater than one with no positive divisors other
Speaker 1: than one itself and itself. This means that the first
Speaker 1: two prime numbers are two and three.
Speaker 2: The three read the message above it. I think she
Speaker 2: would have actually said right.
Speaker 1: There, okay, So let's see. I'll read both of them here.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to see what they say because
Speaker 3: I feel like everything is super connected and I want
Speaker 3: to hear how what is actually being said?
Speaker 1: Okay? In twenty nine volumes, knowledge was once contained. How
Speaker 1: many lines of code remained when the mad big Mabinogian paused,
Speaker 1: go for that in from the beginning and find my
Speaker 1: first name? Okay? Then the other one had this text,
Speaker 1: a poem of fading death named for a king, meant
Speaker 1: to be read only once in vanish alas it could
Speaker 1: not remain unseen. Okay, supercryptic poems.
Speaker 2: Here supercryptic, but hey, I'm interested in.
Speaker 1: It, so anyway. The three lines of text in each
Speaker 1: message seemed likely to be a hint to which book
Speaker 1: slash text to use, and as the key to include
Speaker 1: the book code by googling for some keywords. In the
Speaker 1: second message, the poem fading and death read only once
Speaker 1: in vanish. The wiki entry for a three hundred line
Speaker 1: poem by William Gibson is among the first hints. The
Speaker 1: poem is called Agrippa or a book of the Dead,
Speaker 1: and according to the Wikipedia, its principal notoriety arose from
Speaker 1: the fact that the poem, stored on a three point
Speaker 1: five inch floppy disc, was programmed to erase itself after
Speaker 1: a single use. Similarly, the pages of the artist's book
Speaker 1: were treated with photosensitive chemicals, affecting the gradual fading of
Speaker 1: the words and images from the book's first exposure to light.
Speaker 1: This fits the description perfectly.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, yeah, And I mean you.
Speaker 1: Have to find this floppy disc then and to do that,
Speaker 1: And yeah, so it's a Grippa is a book of
Speaker 1: the dead, so it's not about Cornelius Agrippa. I was
Speaker 1: wrong on that one. But anyway, when googling for William
Speaker 1: Gibson's Agrippa, the first hit sends you to the website.
Speaker 1: Basically take taking this text, including line breaks as the
Speaker 1: key for the book code results in the following and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things on the screen right now.
Speaker 1: But moving on, it says, judging by the dot onion
Speaker 1: at the end of the string, this is actually an
Speaker 1: anonymous hidden service on the tour network. Unfortunately, by the
Speaker 1: time I arrived with the stage, the tour service was
Speaker 1: not available anymore. Thirty three oh one, it concluded the
Speaker 1: last couple of messages with you've shared too much at
Speaker 1: this point. We want the best, not the followers. Thus
Speaker 1: the first few there will receive the prize. So it
Speaker 1: was probably the first, come, first serve the ones who
Speaker 1: are lucky enough to arrive in time, most of which
Speaker 1: did not solve much or any of this challenge themselves.
Speaker 1: Since people were sharing their solutions, got to enter their
Speaker 1: email addresses and were informed that they would be contact
Speaker 1: within a few days. But so Agrippa wasn't even the point,
Speaker 1: right the book itself, the Book of the Dead, none
Speaker 1: of that was the point. All of it was to
Speaker 1: lead you to a tour browser that after so many
Speaker 1: visits was shut down.
Speaker 2: I think all of it's a book.
Speaker 3: I think all of the references and everything that is
Speaker 3: tight in is all the point though, is actually the
Speaker 3: point of it? Yeah, I think that this was that
Speaker 3: they were having people do these things, obviously to test
Speaker 3: the knowledge. But I think every single component of this
Speaker 3: was one hundred percent the point.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, because like.
Speaker 3: Even looking up this manuscript, the memo, I don't even
Speaker 3: know how to say.
Speaker 2: It may been. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's a Celtic mythology, and it comes from two different sources,
Speaker 3: two different manuscripts, the Red Book of her Guest and
Speaker 3: the White Book of Rye doctor right Rye, the Dirich
Speaker 3: right Dirich or something, and like it has fourteen it
Speaker 3: has eleven separate tales, and like they go into all
Speaker 3: sorts of stuff. But I think every single one of
Speaker 3: these things is important to the overall arching theme.
Speaker 2: Of what actually or who is actually behind it.
Speaker 1: Personally, I'm with you, and I think that was all
Speaker 1: very specifically done right. None of this, none of this
Speaker 1: was by accident. Every bit of it was a clue
Speaker 1: or a key or something that was supposed to lead
Speaker 1: you to the next clue or key or or a
Speaker 1: bit of information or whatever the case is. So with
Speaker 1: all that being said, we're going to another website here,
Speaker 1: the Connortumbelson dot com Cicada thirty three oh one Mystery
Speaker 1: Part three or I'm sorry, Puzzle three Solve part four.
Speaker 1: So they talking about how they've been talking about this
Speaker 1: on a couple of them. But this is where we
Speaker 1: get into these. This is Premier Leabis and it all
Speaker 1: looks like, you know, there's these women on either side
Speaker 1: of it. These are the text lines anyway, and the
Speaker 1: red part is supposed to be very important. Right now,
Speaker 1: I've recently started appreciating the Foremost as a tool over
Speaker 1: ben Walk recently, so we have to we can ask
Speaker 1: Foremost to exact extract Jesus these four images. I am
Speaker 1: messing up my reading right now. Now it appears we
Speaker 1: have four more pages of leave a Premus book extracted.
Speaker 1: Unless you can read runs, you're not gonna know what
Speaker 1: to do with this.
Speaker 3: I actually found a website that tells you, step by
Speaker 3: step literally how to try and decipher it. They said,
Speaker 3: pretty much, it's unlikely that you'll be able to do it,
Speaker 3: because no one has really done it.
Speaker 2: But they give you.
Speaker 3: A website and it's like it's one of those encrypted
Speaker 3: websites that like actually tell you step by step.
Speaker 2: It's called uh it's git hub dot com, and it tells.
Speaker 3: You step by step how to do the text files,
Speaker 3: how to use various ones. It shows you all the
Speaker 3: images of using different types of deciphering codes to be
Speaker 3: able to try to decipher it.
Speaker 2: But it said you're unlikely to be able to do it.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, honestly. So we're not going to read
Speaker 1: the entire article, but we are going to kind of
Speaker 1: talk about some of these things here. So before we
Speaker 1: go refra rcual on our magic squares from the previous
Speaker 1: puzzle which they talk about magic squares. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'll just do this, create one tour hidden service that
Speaker 1: can accept CGI file uploads. When this hidden service returns,
Speaker 1: you can when you can accept input, post three post
Speaker 1: the three magic squares and the URL to your tour
Speaker 1: hidden service here work alone. Good luck thirty three oh one,
Speaker 1: and so these were this was the message that was
Speaker 1: sent out to them. So before we go refresh on
Speaker 1: our magic squares from the previous puzzles, we should go
Speaker 1: figure out what these four pages of the books say.
Speaker 1: We have quite a collection of scripts to run on
Speaker 1: runs now, so we will try each of the following
Speaker 1: and look for successful decoding. Direct translation, reverse translation xor
Speaker 1: with puzzle to brute force visionaire key and brute force
Speaker 1: column key. As we go down the list, it doesn't
Speaker 1: take long as this is a direct translation of rooms
Speaker 1: to English, which I'm gonna be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. These right here is basically the loss
Speaker 1: of divinity. That's what these rooms say. I would never
Speaker 1: know that. I don't speak the language. But as you
Speaker 1: can see, a direct translation started spelling out the loss
Speaker 1: of divinity. Now we have to remind ourselves of what
Speaker 1: this translation looks. That this why this looks a bit
Speaker 1: odd the lack of a better words. Lightning bolt Roun
Speaker 1: has either a S or Z as a value letter value.
Speaker 1: The letter V has no corresponding rune. So we have
Speaker 1: to kind of infer some things throughout. Do not edit
Speaker 1: or change this book or the message contained within either
Speaker 1: the words or their numbers, for all is sacred. So
Speaker 1: as we go forward, we probably have to treat the
Speaker 1: message exactly as they are decoded, even if it doesn't
Speaker 1: look exactly like perfect English. As you continue going through
Speaker 1: these four pages are they all are a simple direct
Speaker 1: translation which ends up forming this story titled The Loss
Speaker 1: of Divinity, which we will correct into proper spelling for
Speaker 1: the sake of reading it. Now. Remember we don't have
Speaker 1: a letter V in the translation, so the proper spelling
Speaker 1: would be do we unity, which may or may not
Speaker 1: be become relevant. Don't really know that at the time,
Speaker 1: which also I find interesting. In Old English to modern English,
Speaker 1: the U and the V were used interchangeably as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, which like, there's a reason why W
Speaker 1: as a word even though it's written out as a
Speaker 1: double V. And in other languages, like in French, it's dubleva,
Speaker 1: which is V. It's double V, that's how they call it.
Speaker 1: But in the English language we call it double U
Speaker 1: even though there's not us in it. S's and f's
Speaker 1: were also kind of interchanged weirdly and wildly at the
Speaker 1: turn of the sixteen hundreds and things like this, So
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's there's some sort of precedence to that.
Speaker 3: I feel like they missed the key component of that
Speaker 3: message though, because like above that message, there's another message
Speaker 3: and it's like, so it's all one message and it
Speaker 3: says a warning, believe nothing from the book except what
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's it's actually spelled weird, so I have to
Speaker 2: look for it.
Speaker 3: Except what you know to be true, test the knowledge,
Speaker 3: find your truth, experience your death. Do not edit and
Speaker 3: do not change this book and the rest of what
Speaker 3: you read, but experience your death.
Speaker 2: And it's a warning. That's the first thing in the book.
Speaker 1: Book. But that's from the book itself, right, like the
Speaker 1: liber Primus.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's exactly from the book itself, and it's it's
Speaker 3: the first thing that they that you that you read.
Speaker 3: It's the first thing that they deciphered. Believe nothing from
Speaker 3: this book except what you know to be true. Test
Speaker 3: the knowledge, find your truth, experience your death.
Speaker 1: But that's the point though it's the same as like
Speaker 1: Crowley's book. They weren't wanting people to read Crowley and
Speaker 1: apply them to their lives. They were using it as
Speaker 1: a code to get to the next level. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's also what this was being used for.
Speaker 1: They were using a book that's very obscure and very
Speaker 1: esoteric in all these things. But it's not like the
Speaker 1: information contained within the book is important. It's about the
Speaker 1: code that you're able to extrapolate from it to get
Speaker 1: you to the next clue.
Speaker 2: I think I disagree.
Speaker 3: I think whatever is inside that book is completely important.
Speaker 1: But we haven't even been able to decode the entire
Speaker 1: book even into regular reading.
Speaker 3: Well, most of what I've been seeing, as it said that, like,
Speaker 3: it seems like it's waiting, like whoever is like helping along,
Speaker 3: This is waiting to see, like they're dropping enough knowledge
Speaker 3: here and there to be able to decipher it as it.
Speaker 2: Needs to happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair, I.
Speaker 3: Think there's something inside of that book that will change
Speaker 3: the course of humanity possibly.
Speaker 1: But remember they talked about these magic squares, right, So
Speaker 1: we continue it here while we discovered the meaning behind
Speaker 1: those four pages the onion we originally obtained those images
Speaker 1: from updated. This had become a pattern at this point
Speaker 1: where an onion was discovered, it will go offline for
Speaker 1: five to seven days and come back online changed. So
Speaker 1: these are the magic squares that we are talking about here.
Speaker 1: Website had a few instructions attached. Please paste the magic
Speaker 1: squares into the appropriate text areas below, then provide the
Speaker 1: URL to your tour hidden service. The path to your
Speaker 1: CGI script will which accepts uploads should be cgi bin upload,
Speaker 1: and the HTML from input which accepts file uploads should
Speaker 1: be named file. Additionally, please generate a g n upg
Speaker 1: key pair and place the public key in the local
Speaker 1: location key acs. Okay, so now we get into the
Speaker 1: new numbers of it. So as as much as the
Speaker 1: book was to tell us about the squares, it actually
Speaker 1: leads more towards thirty three oh one, it doesn't actually
Speaker 1: have to do what the information contained within the books.
Speaker 1: So we have to generate three different magic squares with
Speaker 1: the values ten, thirty three twice and thirty three oh
Speaker 1: one at either a seven x seven or five y
Speaker 1: five grid. Thankfully I recently bloged about the magic squares
Speaker 1: in our previous works. So bye ba bab. We have
Speaker 1: to host and build a tour website and this is
Speaker 1: what comes up. So the question is whether we have
Speaker 1: to painfully generate these or discover them with them previous puzzles.
Speaker 1: We know way back in part two, we found a
Speaker 1: magic square that was utilized for decoding a page. Right,
Speaker 1: this is a perfectly valid magic square that sums to
Speaker 1: eleven oh three on every row column diagonalm so I'm
Speaker 1: leaning toward going back through all media assets from the
Speaker 1: previous puzzles to discover more squares. Thankfully, within a few
Speaker 1: weeks between blog posts a bit of renewed energy to
Speaker 1: try and again, and it didn't take long. I just
Speaker 1: popped the image into a forensic beta and message with
Speaker 1: a JPEG error correction scale. Once I started seeing the
Speaker 1: Cicada logo on Personal and Person, Rasputant comes into focus.
Speaker 1: I just messed with the sliders and the numbers appeared.
Speaker 1: So this is the image. So once you did all
Speaker 1: these things, you went to Premier Libis, you got these numbers,
Speaker 1: you made the magic squares, and you made a tore browser.
Speaker 1: This image would come up and you had to mess
Speaker 1: with the color schemes, you had to mess with the
Speaker 1: brightness and all this an image of Rasputant Cicada and
Speaker 1: these numbers showed up. So again I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think it actually had to do with Premier Lebis. I
Speaker 1: don't think it actually had to do with Crowley. I
Speaker 1: don't think it actually had to do with Gibson, although
Speaker 1: it might everything is connected. I think that that was
Speaker 1: more of a stepping stone to get you to the
Speaker 1: next spot. I could be wrong, but this is a
Speaker 1: more zoomed in image of it, and it's I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even think to do this if I been
Speaker 1: given this image, I'm not gonna start messing with the
Speaker 1: sliders to find brightness and contrast to get these things.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you gotta be really smart.
Speaker 1: So this goo ahead, No go ahead. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna keep reading.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It says that this results in a left column of
Speaker 1: numbers and a right column of numbers. Sadly, this does
Speaker 1: not appear to be a full magic square, and no
Speaker 1: more numbers could be discovered. However, if you sum the
Speaker 1: left column and the right column, they equal ten thirty
Speaker 1: three and thirty three oh one, mirror images of each other.
Speaker 1: We know we already have a five y five square
Speaker 1: that sums two ten thirty three, and the left column
Speaker 1: could be a single column or row of the seven
Speaker 1: x seven square, and likewise, the right column sums two
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one and could represent the five by
Speaker 1: five magic square that psalms thirty three oh one. But anyway,
Speaker 1: continuing on here, so if we look back at the
Speaker 1: end at all the assets from the puzzle, we had
Speaker 1: an image of Godell's incompetentness theorem or incompleteness theorem. An
Speaker 1: I mc esher a three second audio clip of Box
Speaker 1: Trio Sonata, the photo above, and an MP three song Interconnectedness,
Speaker 1: which you could still find online right now Interconnectedness by
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one. So the first three assets are
Speaker 1: so tiny, and we already packed in an image, so
Speaker 1: there was probably not much luck of finding some hidden
Speaker 1: magic squares within those. We've already ripped apart the photo above,
Speaker 1: So I believe the missing is something in the audio file,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people agreed with that. By the way,
Speaker 1: with the initial release date included, I tossed out any
Speaker 1: tool that was built after the third puzzle was release
Speaker 1: East January twenty fourteen, and it wouldn't make sense to
Speaker 1: use a stenograph scenography tool that didn't exist at the
Speaker 1: time of the Cicada puzzles. I'll attempt to use this
Speaker 1: latest version. So basically, this dude is documenting his walk
Speaker 1: in trying to figure all this shit out. There we go.
Speaker 1: This is a clip of the audio file itself. I
Speaker 1: want to say, if I coul zoom in and read
Speaker 1: what the hell that says? One secret found or yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: secret found on word ABCD that was That was the clue,
Speaker 1: and he had to use all these tools within the
Speaker 1: audio files to find that this message that's this is I.
Speaker 2: Don't even understand how like they're so smart.
Speaker 1: This is scary levels of smart. But yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: this is alright. Oh, let's see if we could play
Speaker 1: it here. So I loaded the song into Sonic Visualizer
Speaker 1: and was personally lost beyond belief. Oh let's check it out.
Speaker 2: I can't hear it.
Speaker 1: Neither can the audio's up. But again, it wasn't about
Speaker 1: the song.
Speaker 2: See I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've been building and formulating my theory, so I'm ready.
Speaker 1: To I hear you. And again there's no incorrect theories here.
Speaker 1: Nothing is concrete here. My knowledge using waveform spectagrams and
Speaker 1: melodic frequency graphing was next to zero, so I had
Speaker 1: to spend some time learning techniques for discovering information hidden
Speaker 1: within a song. With a bit of research, I went
Speaker 1: through the following spectrogram analysis. I was looking for some
Speaker 1: messenger code hidden within the spectagram waveform analysis. I was
Speaker 1: looking for anomalies in the waveform that might suggest some
Speaker 1: data within success thrives in the world of Sonic Visualizer,
Speaker 1: when you have an original audio file and one you
Speaker 1: think is modified to compare against this song produced by Cicada,
Speaker 1: As far as I can tell, as an original creation,
Speaker 1: we have nothing to compare it against. The more I
Speaker 1: researched the audio via Sonic, the more I realized that
Speaker 1: Kada thirty three to oh one would not have made
Speaker 1: something so easy to spot in a tool. So Kata
Speaker 1: puzzles are resistant to brute forcing generally, so my guess,
Speaker 1: if anything is packed in this file, we haven't found it.
Speaker 1: This tool Sonic has gone through nearly twenty versions since
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, but I'm under the belief the tools visualizing
Speaker 1: data have only improved, so I'll ignored the older versions
Speaker 1: and just move on, all right, So continue on. We're
Speaker 1: skipping way ahead in this because my god, he's talking
Speaker 1: about things that I feel like most people have no
Speaker 1: idea what it's about. So anyway, so I decided to
Speaker 1: try again using an older version of open Puff version
Speaker 1: four point zero and run through my possible passwords again.
Speaker 1: To my surprise, I hit thirty three oh one one
Speaker 1: zero three three with a fifty percent bit selection and
Speaker 1: saw a different message than ever before. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: the password was in front of my face the entire time.
Speaker 1: As I hit okay, another dialogue popped up with the
Speaker 1: details on what it discovered. Hidden file name magic square
Speaker 1: text or it says beginner report hidden file magic square
Speaker 1: dot text. Bite size is seven hundred and forty five bytes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that letter's supposed to be into report.
Speaker 1: Success was finally here a hidden file called magic square
Speaker 1: dot text was hidden within the interconnected MP three. So
Speaker 1: hidden within that song when you knew what to plug
Speaker 1: up and want to look into it, here a text
Speaker 1: box was able to be extrapolated Magic squares. I don't
Speaker 1: even know, like what to make of that. You're muted.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're muted at this moment.
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, no, I said, I don't even know what
Speaker 3: to think about that like that. I would die if
Speaker 3: this was like someone like you had to solve it
Speaker 3: or you die kind of vibe.
Speaker 2: No, I'm smart enough for this.
Speaker 1: But but then magic squares, being that he had already
Speaker 1: put in these numbers from these magic squares earlier, so
Speaker 1: he was able to go there in this eighty one
Speaker 1: seven fifteen, all this stuff and seven was the last
Speaker 1: column in the second magic square. All these other numbers
Speaker 1: was the first column reversed in the first magic square.
Speaker 1: So now we had the magic squares discovered, and we
Speaker 1: had to build a tour website that Sikata would presumably
Speaker 1: communicate with us through which they did. These are the
Speaker 1: file locators. This is what they were communicating like carefully,
Speaker 1: the magic squares were pasted into their respective box in
Speaker 1: the URL to create the onion was added and submit
Speaker 1: was clicked. Instead of the generic unsuccessful page, we were
Speaker 1: presented with a simple response page with three more book pages.
Speaker 1: It's that's what I'm saying. It's it's it's more of
Speaker 1: the premier lebas And you have to use this to
Speaker 1: go back and do all this again to find more info,
Speaker 1: to find more intel and all these things. This whole
Speaker 1: page right, and then these numbers at the bottom. I
Speaker 1: ran each stream through a basic Translate reverse and surprising,
Speaker 1: the last page decoded successfully. I see and instruction.
Speaker 2: See an instruction in what we thing all? I think
Speaker 2: I think I have it actually pulled up.
Speaker 1: Let me see all things. Discover truth inside yourself, follow
Speaker 1: your truth.
Speaker 3: I have this one that says welcome welcome, welcome, pilgrim
Speaker 3: to the great journey toward the end of all things.
Speaker 3: It is not an easy trip for those who find
Speaker 3: their way here, it is a necessary one. Along the
Speaker 3: way you will find to find an end to all
Speaker 3: struggle in suffering, your innocence, your illusions, your certainty, and
Speaker 3: your reality. Ultimately, your will discover an end too self.
Speaker 3: And it is through this pilgrim pil pilgrimage that we
Speaker 3: shape ourselves in our realities, journey deep within reality, and
Speaker 3: will arrive outside the lice that interstar. It is only
Speaker 3: through going with in that we may emerge in wisdom.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I thought I had that part.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're good A bit of I have.
Speaker 3: Actually, I pulled up a website that has a lot
Speaker 3: of all the deciphers.
Speaker 1: Of this word that we couldn't figure. That's question all things,
Speaker 1: Question all things, it says. The audio occurs with what
Speaker 1: is clearly question all things. You can see the only
Speaker 1: option we have is C or K when we expected
Speaker 1: a Q. So that's supposed to be question in all things.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 1: So basically, uh an instruction question all things, truth inside
Speaker 1: or discover. Yeah, so that's supposed to be discover because
Speaker 1: the U and the V right. Discover truth inside yourself,
Speaker 1: follow your truth, impose nothing on others. Know this. So
Speaker 1: again an instruction question all things. Discover truth inside yourself,
Speaker 1: follow your truth, impose nothing on others. Know this, and
Speaker 1: then a number. See all of that was extrapolated off
Speaker 1: of a tour browser, off of a audio clip, off
Speaker 1: of the liber Primus, off of this other thing. It
Speaker 1: all it's just one thing after another after another after another.
Speaker 1: So we're scrolling all the way down here because the
Speaker 1: dude goes way more in depth with it, and he
Speaker 1: used so many different keys to decode this. So right
Speaker 1: here we have a chart the original the original runic character,
Speaker 1: the original runic character index of what the numbers were
Speaker 1: supposed to mean. Then when you plug that into a
Speaker 1: visionaire key, uh gomatria primus visionaire index, a shifted runic sequence,
Speaker 1: and then the shifted runic character. And that's how he
Speaker 1: was able to decode and decipher all of this shit,
Speaker 1: which then led him back to the book and there
Speaker 1: was more things, and it's let's see if they're going
Speaker 1: to break this down. So a Cohen during so with
Speaker 1: a bit of cleanup I could clean up the entire
Speaker 1: three pages into one solid story long way he got here,
Speaker 1: but this, let's just get here a cone. During a lesson,
Speaker 1: the master explained the I. The I is the voice
Speaker 1: of the circumference, he said. When asked by a student
Speaker 1: to explain what he meant, the master said, it is
Speaker 1: a voice inside your head. I don't have a voice
Speaker 1: in my head, thought the student, and he raised his
Speaker 1: hand to tell the master. The master stopped the student
Speaker 1: and said, the voice that just said that you don't
Speaker 1: have a voice in your head is the eye. And
Speaker 1: the students were enlightened an instruction question all things. Discover
Speaker 1: the truth inside yourself, follow the truth, impose nothing on others.
Speaker 1: Know this and the number sequence. So that was the
Speaker 1: entire thing from this, and he goes more in depth
Speaker 1: with a lot of it. But yeah, this dude put
Speaker 1: in the legwork to find the answer to these puzzles.
Speaker 2: Good God, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So the inn Star Emergence was another audio clip that
Speaker 1: was used, and I do believe you could find the
Speaker 1: sound bite still on YouTube if you know where to look.
Speaker 1: So this is liber Primus of the Cicada thirty three
Speaker 1: oh one Z library and for those that don't know. Wait, wise,
Speaker 1: this is not loading. There we go, now, it's loading.
Speaker 1: It's taking a minute. Chapter one the infus and unless
Speaker 1: you can read Nordic ruins, you're gonna be shit out
Speaker 1: of luck on trying to figure out what the hell
Speaker 1: they're trying to say here, honestly. But there's more. There's
Speaker 1: these pages and pages and pages, and there's a cicada
Speaker 1: at the bottom of this one. Right then you have
Speaker 1: these Some letters are read, that's very significant, some are not.
Speaker 1: Some have the women standing on the side of them,
Speaker 1: some just have the little fancy swirlly marks. But this
Speaker 1: is the entirety of the Premier or liber Primus book.
Speaker 1: These dots, I feel like those dots are also significant.
Speaker 2: Everything is significant, Everything is significant.
Speaker 1: We got a tree, what's this one gonna be?
Speaker 3: Which is not uncommon considering mythology and the tree of
Speaker 3: life and all the different things that revolve around trees.
Speaker 1: Which that also makes sense because if you're to cut
Speaker 1: this in half, that's one way up. That's when we're
Speaker 1: going down, like the roots and the limbs of the tree.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so this is the book in question. This
Speaker 1: one has a flying cicada and a tree. This one's
Speaker 1: got read an infinity symbol. Again, good cult members, If
Speaker 1: you're not seeing this on your screen right now, you
Speaker 1: really do need a condopatreon dot com slash CULTU conspiracy
Speaker 1: podcast to see what the hell we are talking about
Speaker 1: on this anyway, moving on, moving on, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to show that, yes, liber Primus is still a thing
Speaker 1: that you can go to right now. You can still
Speaker 1: search it up and if you can read runes then
Speaker 1: by all means get after it homing. But even those
Speaker 1: that can read Nordic runs, they're saying that this isn't
Speaker 1: an indelible sentence. This is a code. There's ciphers, there's
Speaker 1: ways that it's written that don't make sense in regular
Speaker 1: speech pattern, and it's done that way specifically apparently. Now
Speaker 1: I don't know if Cicada made this, or if this
Speaker 1: is some sort of an old text that dates way
Speaker 1: way way back and then Cicada is using it for
Speaker 1: this purpose or what. I don't know, But I mean,
Speaker 1: at this point, anybody's guess is as good as anybody
Speaker 1: else is here. So this is uh, the leber Primus
Speaker 1: on is uncovering Cicada dot fandom. This is what you
Speaker 1: were talking about believe nothing from this book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a lot of stuff. It
Speaker 2: was discovered in two thousand and eight or twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: So that was after the cicada stuff had already been
Speaker 1: wrapped up.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the warning we already read that one do
Speaker 1: not change this book or digital.
Speaker 3: The digital book emerged in the puzzles in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first book. So I'm like, let me, let me
Speaker 2: double check because it's.
Speaker 1: Said that this isn't ancient Nordic literature.
Speaker 3: I know, but it said Google. I'm looking at Google. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like, that doesn't make any sense to me. Why
Speaker 3: that would be, uh, why that would be saying that
Speaker 3: it was found It was discovered in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: So I learned to you. So I will read the
Speaker 1: pages that had been deciphered and we'll just see what
Speaker 1: we got here. So we already talked about the warning.
Speaker 1: The next one is welcome. Welcome, Pilgrim, Pilgrim, piglmm. Welcome
Speaker 1: pilgrim to the great journey toward the end of all things.
Speaker 1: This is not an easy trip, but for those who
Speaker 1: find their way here, it is a necessary one. Along
Speaker 1: the way, you will find an end to all struggle
Speaker 1: and suffering, your innocence, your illusions, your certainty, and your reality. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: you will discover an end to self. And it's through
Speaker 1: this pilgrimage that we shape ourselves and our realities. Journey
Speaker 1: deep within and you will arrive outside like the in star.
Speaker 1: It is only through going within that we may emerge wisdom.
Speaker 1: You are a being unto yourself. You are a law
Speaker 1: unto yourself. Each intelligence is holy, for all that lives
Speaker 1: is holy, an instruction command for your own self some wisdom.
Speaker 1: The primes are sacred, the tocient function is sacred. All
Speaker 1: things should be encrypted. Know this, and then that's the
Speaker 1: number sequence right there, right, And we already talked about
Speaker 1: a cohen A man decided to go on to study
Speaker 1: with a master. We read that one already. Let's see.
Speaker 1: The man thought for a moment, replied, oh wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait wait wait, yeah, so that's actually a really
Speaker 3: interesting part.
Speaker 2: I have it highlighted from my theory.
Speaker 1: Actually, so a cohen A man decided to go on
Speaker 1: to study with a master. He went to the door
Speaker 1: of the master. Who are you who wishes to study here?
Speaker 1: Ask the master? The student told the master his name.
Speaker 1: That is not who you are, That is only what
Speaker 1: you are called. Who you are? Or who are you?
Speaker 1: Who wishes to study here? He asked again. The man
Speaker 1: thought for a moment and replied, I am a professor.
Speaker 1: That is what you do, not who you are, replied
Speaker 1: the master. This reminds me of that scene from Anger Management.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: That is what you do, not who you are, replied
Speaker 1: the master. Who are you who wishes to study here? Confuse?
Speaker 1: The man thought some more. Finally he answered, I am
Speaker 1: a human being that is only your species, not who
Speaker 1: you are. Who are you that wishes to study here?
Speaker 1: The master asked again. After a moment of thought, the
Speaker 1: professor replied, I am a conscious inhabiting or I am
Speaker 1: a consciousness inhabiting an arbitrary body. That is merely what
Speaker 1: you are, not who you are. Who are you who
Speaker 1: wishes to study here? The man was getting irritated. I am,
Speaker 1: he stated, but he could not think of anything else
Speaker 1: to say, so he trailed off. After a long pause,
Speaker 1: the master applied, then you are welcome to come study
Speaker 1: an instruction. Do four unreasonable things each day? So wait, wait,
Speaker 1: so he's basically saying I am, and then just didn't
Speaker 1: say anything after that, and he's like, then you are
Speaker 1: welcome to study. Okay, So do four unreasonable things each
Speaker 1: day the loss of divinity. The circumference practices three behave
Speaker 1: which cause the loss of divinity. Consumption. We consume too
Speaker 1: much because we believe the following two errors within the deception.
Speaker 1: Number one, we do not have enough or there is
Speaker 1: not enough, or number two we have what we have
Speaker 1: now by luck, and we will not be strong enough
Speaker 1: later to obtain what we need. Most things are not
Speaker 1: worth consuming. Preservation. We preserve things because we believe we
Speaker 1: are weak. If we lose them, we will not be
Speaker 1: strong enough to gain them. Again. This is the deception.
Speaker 1: Most things are not worth preserving. Most things are not
Speaker 1: worth preserving. Adherents we follow dogma so that we can belong,
Speaker 1: to belong and be right, or we follow reasons so
Speaker 1: we can belong and be right. There is nothing to
Speaker 1: be right about. To belong is death. It is the
Speaker 1: behaviors of consumption, preservation, and adherence that we have us
Speaker 1: that have us lost, that have us lose our primality
Speaker 1: and thus our divinity. Some wisdom a mass great wealth.
Speaker 1: Never become attached to what you own. Be prepared to
Speaker 1: destroy all that you own. An instruction program, your mind
Speaker 1: program reality a cone. During a lesson, the master explained,
Speaker 1: this is the voice and the circumference. The master stopped
Speaker 1: and the students were enlightened. Question all things to discover
Speaker 1: your truth. Know this. We talked about the numbers on
Speaker 1: that already an end. Within the deep web, there exists
Speaker 1: a page that hashes tolah blah. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: code there. It is the duty of every pilgrim to
Speaker 1: seek out this page. Parable like the instar tunneling through
Speaker 1: the surface, we must shed our circumferences, find the divinity
Speaker 1: within and emerge.
Speaker 3: So that's crazy as I can't find anything on who
Speaker 3: actually made this and where it came from and when
Speaker 3: it happened.
Speaker 2: Everything keeps putting back to Cicada.
Speaker 1: This isn't, like I said, This isn't like an ancient
Speaker 1: Nordic text. This is a thing created by Cicada for
Speaker 1: this entire purpose. It's not written by Crowley, written by Huxley,
Speaker 1: written by Agrippa like, this is literally just made for
Speaker 1: this purpose, which is pretty fascinating enough it self. So
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's tons. There's tons to break down here.
Speaker 3: So this is the more That article is basically the
Speaker 3: people that took Cikeida and made it into a ransom software.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll read that one towards the end. Two because
Speaker 1: the Y files shout out to the y files. They
Speaker 1: did an episode on this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I hear what he thinks as far as the
Speaker 1: overarching theme behind it, but I don't necessarily agree and
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree either. Y'all tell me what y'all
Speaker 1: think about a good cult members. Let's play it now.
Speaker 2: Iber Primus is the way.
Speaker 5: Its words are the map, the meaning is the road,
Speaker 5: and their numbers are the direction.
Speaker 2: They devoted.
Speaker 1: Seek and you will be found. Good luck will be
Speaker 1: thirty three oh one.
Speaker 6: Will beware false paths. Many speculated that their numbers are
Speaker 6: the direction was the major clue, but still no progress
Speaker 6: was made. In twenty seventeen, a user stumbled across a
Speaker 6: message from Cicada in Google's cased pages that nobody had noticed.
Speaker 5: Beware false paths, always verify PGP signature.
Speaker 1: We're thirty three oh one, and.
Speaker 6: That was the last anyone heard from Cicada thirty three
Speaker 6: oh one. It's been a few years with no solution
Speaker 6: to Liber Primus and no further contact from Cicada. This
Speaker 6: was disappointing to a lot of people. After all this
Speaker 6: over several years, we were still no closer to finding
Speaker 6: out who Cicada thirty three oh one was or what
Speaker 6: they did. But liber Primus was the third quest. The
Speaker 6: first two were solved, and the people who solved them
Speaker 6: they started talking. When that first image appeared on four
Speaker 6: Chan looking for highly intelligent individuals, the chase was on.
Speaker 6: The mysterious group known as thirty three oh one presented
Speaker 6: clues and challenges that thousands of techies and puzzle solvers
Speaker 6: found impossible to resist. Each mystery became more complex. The
Speaker 6: clues that connected Julius Caesar and King Arthur to cryptography
Speaker 6: were genius and easy enough to solve that people became hooked.
Speaker 6: The solutions that led to phone numbers and geographic coordinates
Speaker 6: made the search even more real. But over time it
Speaker 6: became clear that thirty three oh one was looking for
Speaker 6: a specific type of person. To solve Cicada, you needed
Speaker 6: knowledge of the concepts and the tools used in encryption.
Speaker 6: You had to have computer skills, understand operating systems, and
Speaker 6: be handy with programming. It also didn't hurt if you
Speaker 6: had expertise in may numerology and pre Christian literature. Yeah,
Speaker 6: who doesn't, But who was Cicada. A popular theory was
Speaker 6: that this was a recruiting effort for a government intelligence
Speaker 6: agency like CIA, NSA or MI six, and there was
Speaker 6: plenty of precedent for that. During the Second World War,
Speaker 6: the top secret Government Code and Cipher School used cross
Speaker 6: exsword puzzles printed in the Daily Telegraph to identify good
Speaker 6: candidates for Bletchley Park. Those recruits, along with Alan Turing,
Speaker 6: went on to solve the Enigma machine, which helped the
Speaker 6: Allies win the war. NSA and CIA ran similar contests
Speaker 6: over the years. Companies like Google and Microsoft have also
Speaker 6: used cryptography and puzzles to recruit, but one of the
Speaker 6: early winners said Cicada was none of these. After solving
Speaker 6: the final round of puzzles in twenty thirteen, he received
Speaker 6: an email with a username and password, along with a
Speaker 6: site address on the dark Web. The site had two parts,
Speaker 6: a message board and a chat room. The message board
Speaker 6: had various topics, including a welcome section, and an area
Speaker 6: for Cicada's goals and current projects. The chatroom had about
Speaker 6: twenty members. According to a couple of the winners, Cicada
Speaker 6: wanted to further the use of cryptography so more people
Speaker 6: would have access to Internet privacy. Section and an area
Speaker 6: for Cicada's goals and current projects. The chatroom had about
Speaker 6: twenty members. According to a couple of the winners, Cicada
Speaker 6: wanted to further the use of cryptography so more people
Speaker 6: would have access to Internet privacy. Cicada had some big goals,
Speaker 6: but in the short term, they wanted to recruit highly
Speaker 6: technical people to develop open source cryptography software. All I
Speaker 6: had to fight people to write free software yep, and
Speaker 6: I think this was Cickada's big mistake. The recruits didn't
Speaker 6: want to write software that wanted to solve puzzles, and
Speaker 6: when the puzzles stopped, the membership dwindled. There were spikes
Speaker 6: in membership when new challenges appeared, but it was the
Speaker 6: same story. The winners weren't interested in writing software, they
Speaker 6: weren't driven by ideology, they didn't care about politics. They
Speaker 6: just wanted to solve puzzles. The same thing happens when
Speaker 6: NSACIAGHQ and other intelligence organizations do recruitment drives. Many of
Speaker 6: the winners are offered positions in one of these agencies,
Speaker 6: and many of them refuse. They don't want to work
Speaker 6: in government and it too smart to wake and government. Well,
Speaker 6: that might be part of it, but really they just
Speaker 6: want to solve puzzles. Whenever you achieve a task, your
Speaker 6: brain rewards you with a hit of dopamin. This could
Speaker 6: mean finishing a workout, completing a school project, or figuring
Speaker 6: out an escape room. Achieve a goal gets some dopamin.
Speaker 6: Our brains love dopamin. It turns out that solving problems
Speaker 6: is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, source
Speaker 6: of dopamin for the brain. Solving puzzles like those presented
Speaker 6: by Cicada reward us with dopaman while we're working on them,
Speaker 6: and when we actually solve one, well, Cicada solvers describe
Speaker 6: that feeling is nothing less than exhilarating. Now, plenty of
Speaker 6: people are interested in politics and ideology, but not too
Speaker 6: many of them would describe their interest as exhilarating. Puzzles
Speaker 6: make us happy. When was the last time politics made
Speaker 6: you happy? And although two of the goals of this
Speaker 6: channel are to educate and inspire. The primary goal is
Speaker 6: to entertain. In other words, the WI Files is here
Speaker 6: to make you happy. So that's why I've included a
Speaker 6: Cicada type puzzle in this video. Think you can find it.
Speaker 1: Shout out once again to the wy Files. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love the program. But now, okay, I hear what he's
Speaker 1: saying that perhaps Cicada was used as some sort of
Speaker 1: recruitment tool. But and I do agree with that to
Speaker 1: a point. Was it for a government agency. Possibly? Was
Speaker 1: it for a group of activist people, possibly that too.
Speaker 1: But again, if they got to the end of the
Speaker 1: yellow brick road and discovered that all it was was
Speaker 1: a group that was writing code to make Internet more
Speaker 1: accessible to everybody, I could understand why a lot of
Speaker 1: them be like, Yeah, I didn't put in all this
Speaker 1: work and all this extra thinking to write code for
Speaker 1: some group of people I'm never gonna meet and never
Speaker 1: gonna make money from, So like thanks, but no thanks.
Speaker 1: I could imagine that too.
Speaker 3: I have a theory that's kind of I have two
Speaker 3: that I've been working throughout this entire thing. Now I'm
Speaker 3: not the numerology person that's but I found it interesting
Speaker 3: that certain things kept repeating itself throughout all of this,
Speaker 3: and when I kept breaking down more and more of
Speaker 3: what we were reading and what they put it in,
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, there's too much of
Speaker 3: it to think of the to not acknowledge it at least.
Speaker 3: So thirty three oh one is actually the angel number,
Speaker 3: which I thought was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Are you sure, because I've heard a lot of these
Speaker 1: numbers be used as an angel number, like the god
Speaker 1: frequency and whatever.
Speaker 3: So I'm actually on numerology box dot com and it
Speaker 3: says explaining the thirty three Zho one angel number meaning
Speaker 3: and it talks about that it's uh that it's actually
Speaker 3: apparently an angel number meaning spirituality and as as it
Speaker 3: breakings us down into three components with creativity, self.
Speaker 2: Expiration, and communication.
Speaker 3: What I what I originally started looking at was the
Speaker 3: actual numbers in and of itself, like zero one and
Speaker 3: thirty three and so like zero is void, infinite cycles,
Speaker 3: one is beginnings, fresh individuality and independence, and thirty three
Speaker 3: is spiritual awareness, enlightenment, compassion, and healing. Was like, it's interesting,
Speaker 3: I mean, because if you look at the theme of
Speaker 3: everything that they brought to every little piece of this.
Speaker 3: It all really boils down to as like new beginnings,
Speaker 3: it restarting stuff over good and evil, enlightenment. And so
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, well that's kind of weird. So thirty
Speaker 3: three one equal seven, which is introspection, spirituality, and analytical thinking.
Speaker 3: Now I'm not Jonathan, so I don't know the woouness
Speaker 3: of all the numerology, but I felt like it was
Speaker 3: something worth actually saying, because it all seems to add
Speaker 3: into this compounding, massive thing that they built.
Speaker 2: And what I found. Did you see did you show
Speaker 2: a feather on one of the.
Speaker 1: Pages the premier Lebis. Yes, there was a cicada. There
Speaker 1: was like a cicada that seemed like it was more
Speaker 1: of a cocoon. There was a feather, There was women,
Speaker 1: there were swirls, or were trees.
Speaker 3: So the feather was kind of kind of made me
Speaker 3: think of something. So I was like, you know what
Speaker 3: they put in Egyptian stuff as well?
Speaker 2: And I was like, which I remember, the.
Speaker 1: Goddess, where where do they put in Egyptian stuff? You
Speaker 1: said that earlier when it was the Book of the Dead,
Speaker 1: that was Agrippa, That wasn't Egypt.
Speaker 3: No, because when I was reading another section of it,
Speaker 3: they somehow brought in Egyptian. I didn't know if that
Speaker 3: was actually in it or if this was one of
Speaker 3: those fandom things.
Speaker 2: That like included that in.
Speaker 3: Maybe that was, but I mean, if you look at
Speaker 3: it in the sense of their bringing all types of
Speaker 3: because even the one book that they brought that they
Speaker 3: referenced has mythology into Celtic lure and about justice, about injustice.
Speaker 2: A lot of it has to do with justice.
Speaker 3: A lot of their stuff that they were talking about, right,
Speaker 3: And so if you look at the if it was
Speaker 3: actually a feather, and then if if the Egyptian was
Speaker 3: brought in or not, you know, because the.
Speaker 1: Way your heart against the feather to see where you
Speaker 1: go in the afterlife.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a symbol mat depiction of an ostrich feather
Speaker 3: as a symbol of truth and justice. So again justice
Speaker 3: is referenced in another way, if that was a part
Speaker 3: of it or not, which I found to be really
Speaker 3: kind of strange that everything kept being thirty three and
Speaker 3: adding back to enlightenment and all these different things. Aleistair
Speaker 3: Crowley's Book of Law is supposedly dictated to him by
Speaker 3: a beyond human being which you know it's weird.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he was trying to talk with demons
Speaker 1: a lot. That was his whole thing. He wanted to
Speaker 1: be the most wicked man to ever live, which.
Speaker 3: You know, I think applies to this because this was
Speaker 3: also like and then I read more about it, it was
Speaker 3: all about enlightenment, digital freedom, which makes me kind of
Speaker 3: like circle all back to my.
Speaker 2: Theory of I have two theories. Either this is a
Speaker 2: new age.
Speaker 3: In like new age vigilante group that is wanting to
Speaker 3: bring about justice and what it talked about in the
Speaker 3: portions that you could see about the Libra was talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, beware of the truth that's gonna you're gonna
Speaker 3: find and all this stuff that's gonna happen. You know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna pretty much break it apart and you will find.
Speaker 3: Of course, I can't find them one thing that I'm
Speaker 3: looking for. Hang on, I think that these might be
Speaker 3: vigilantes in some way. Yeah, I think it, or believe
Speaker 3: nothing in the book finds your truth, experience your death.
Speaker 3: I feel like when they're talking about this, they're talking
Speaker 3: about the dark web in and of itself, and that
Speaker 3: you're gonna find all of what you don't want to see,
Speaker 3: like if they are this smart and it is a
Speaker 3: vigilante cyber hacking group that is like actually fighting the
Speaker 3: true evil like the the elites, the elite elite, and
Speaker 3: find out really what they are, really what's been happening
Speaker 3: for centuries and all of this stuff. I think that
Speaker 3: plays into this is your enlightenment. You're becoming more enlightened
Speaker 3: of what's actually around you.
Speaker 2: Uh. That's probably more along the lines of what this is.
Speaker 2: My other thought, which is kind.
Speaker 3: Of crazy, is that it's an ancient society, like a
Speaker 3: secret society that has been around for a long time
Speaker 3: that dabbles, that is involved in the good and evil
Speaker 3: war that's.
Speaker 2: Been going on for centuries, and that this is a
Speaker 2: part of recruiting people that could help wage the win
Speaker 2: the war now that we're in the digital.
Speaker 3: Aspect of things versus what it used to be, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And that they're looking for specific characteristics of people, and
Speaker 3: that they're letting you know that like this is going
Speaker 3: to be something that once you get into this, then
Speaker 3: you're never going to get back out, and that there's
Speaker 3: so much more to this world and this is going
Speaker 3: to be your true enlightenment once you break the code,
Speaker 3: you're going to be recruited into this. So those are
Speaker 3: my two random, weird theories. But I feel like if
Speaker 3: you look at it all of it, it.
Speaker 2: Breaks it down.
Speaker 1: I think you're onto something With both of those actually
Speaker 1: taking into account everything, this was clearly a recruiting tool
Speaker 1: for some group, and I've got to be honest, I
Speaker 1: don't think that it was a group that was out
Speaker 1: there doing the good war wor I'll put it like that.
Speaker 1: And there's multiple reasons why I believe that. For one,
Speaker 1: the fact that they wanted people that were that well
Speaker 1: acquainted with the dark Web, Like most most good people
Speaker 1: out there doing good things are not going onto the
Speaker 1: dark web for any fucking thing right now. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying everybody who's on the dark web or evil. Well, again,
Speaker 1: if you're hacking, you're probably not doing it for good purposes.
Speaker 3: But a lot of people do try to hack to
Speaker 3: get information to be spread out.
Speaker 2: Not everyone, not everyone, but there are.
Speaker 3: Decent people, and I think that's what that personality test
Speaker 3: was for. I think what a lot of these things
Speaker 3: were for is to realize that they are whoever they're
Speaker 3: recruiting might need to be morally gray because of what
Speaker 3: they're going to be doing. Yes, is I personally think
Speaker 3: that this is actually a positive thing, that they recruited
Speaker 3: people for a positive, vigilante style war that they're waging
Speaker 3: that we aren't a part of, Like we don't see.
Speaker 1: So I could see the point of that. And also
Speaker 1: I could see that most of the people that were
Speaker 1: participating in this, I don't think we're like bad people
Speaker 1: like by any anything like, right right, right, right. But
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is when they finally got their offer letter,
Speaker 1: the fifteen year old obviously didn't do it. Like he
Speaker 1: got the offer, he made it through and decided, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go help people instead. You see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like he had all that capability to work
Speaker 1: with Cicada to be a part of the click, and
Speaker 1: he decided, Nah, dude, I'm going to go try to
Speaker 1: help the earth and help you know, the human genome
Speaker 1: in totality instead. I'm good, But That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And then also that everything had to be secret in nature.
Speaker 1: Most very positive things are not secret in nature, right.
Speaker 2: And then but if.
Speaker 3: You're waging your war against things that we don't know about,
Speaker 3: like the common folk don't know about that that this
Speaker 3: is stuff that we hypothetically feel like it might be true,
Speaker 3: but this is these people actually understand the underbelty or
Speaker 3: the dimensional stuff or all of these things that we
Speaker 3: think that might be true, but no, they are going
Speaker 3: to find out for the for real, like this is
Speaker 3: what's really gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It's gonna break your truth.
Speaker 3: It's gonna you're gonna experience your death as a human
Speaker 3: and you're gonna become something else. You're gonna become enlightened
Speaker 3: in some way, and you're gonna do something.
Speaker 1: Else, which also ties into what I think they're like, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your humanity if you if you do this,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna be a part of the bad guys.
Speaker 1: I think that this is a recruitment tool for the
Speaker 1: dark elites. They were claiming that it was for good purposes,
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't know any different until you got your
Speaker 1: welcome letter and then realize all the projects that they're
Speaker 1: associated with, and then you realize like, oh oh, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like that scene like Hans, are we the Baddies?
Speaker 1: I think that might have been what this was.
Speaker 3: I could be so I can appreciate your theory too,
Speaker 3: because I definitely didn't think about that as well.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 3: I was considering, you know, what could this be for good?
Speaker 3: Could this be for evil? What are the balancing because
Speaker 3: everything is about balance, scales, justice, enlightenment. You know, you're
Speaker 3: finding all this truth beginnings, you know all that step so.
Speaker 1: And take away religious dogma, take away whatever religious take
Speaker 1: away the dogma, but of this thought process. And I'm
Speaker 1: not even saying Christian or Buddhist or what take away
Speaker 1: religious titles for just a second, of all spiritual walks
Speaker 1: on earth, one side is telling you that, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you don't have enlightenment, but we can offer it to you.
Speaker 1: And the other side is saying, no, if you're wanting enlightenment, dude,
Speaker 1: dot dot dot, And like here you go. One of
Speaker 1: these sides operates in the darkness and they're talking about
Speaker 1: revealing the light to you, and the other side talks
Speaker 1: about how, no, no, here's the light. You could just
Speaker 1: take it. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I do, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And again, I could be so wrong.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what it could be.
Speaker 3: I just found to be interesting that the cycles kept
Speaker 3: repeating the specific people that they chose what they were saying, like,
Speaker 3: you didn't need to select all of these things.
Speaker 2: You didn't need to.
Speaker 3: Select these certain people that have ties into everything else
Speaker 3: that bring up different types of occult meanings, that have
Speaker 3: mythology and these different things that are talking about constantly.
Speaker 2: Justice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, And that was only just a
Speaker 3: little bit that we broke that I was able to
Speaker 3: break down while we were having this conversation. So to
Speaker 3: break it fully down, I'm curious to see what it
Speaker 3: would actually lay out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. And that's the worst part. No
Speaker 1: one is ever gonna know because allegedly the people that
Speaker 1: got their welcome letter either walked away and they've never
Speaker 1: spoken of it since. And perhaps that could be because
Speaker 1: they realize whatever level of people they're talking to could
Speaker 1: affect their actual real life, right, and so they're just like,
Speaker 1: hey man, silence is key and I'm walking away, Or
Speaker 1: they took the acceptance letter and they'll never speak of
Speaker 1: it because now they're in the click. So it's like
Speaker 1: where they disappeared, or they disappeared that all of this
Speaker 1: could be true. Hell, this could be the fucking Aliens
Speaker 1: for all we know. Real shit, it could be.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I thought, like half of the episode,
Speaker 3: I really thought this was like aliens of some type.
Speaker 3: Like I really thought that it was aliens or supernatural being.
Speaker 3: I actually wrote down my first initial thought was that
Speaker 3: this was an inch of society before the reset, before
Speaker 3: we got reset and lost a lot of our information.
Speaker 3: This is a subgroup that has been around fighting the
Speaker 3: dark Elites or fighting the darkness of some type, and
Speaker 3: that they have now utilized this to find new recruits
Speaker 3: to add in their fold to try and combat this
Speaker 3: on the digital scale. I didn't that was my initial
Speaker 3: thoughts that I was thinking maybe aliens. I was thinking different,
Speaker 3: just a whole bunch of different things.
Speaker 1: It might be Illuminati, it might be global dark Elites,
Speaker 1: it might be a real genuine activists that are like
Speaker 1: doing good things for the Earth. There's so many possibilities here,
Speaker 1: to be completely honest, and I'm very glad that we
Speaker 1: did this episode.
Speaker 3: To be honest, me too, It's very it's been very
Speaker 3: interesting and.
Speaker 1: Enlightening and enlightening. So now we have this last article here, Raven,
Speaker 1: you sent this one to me as a matter of fact, Well.
Speaker 2: They don't have to like break it all the way down.
Speaker 3: But I found it to be interesting that the this
Speaker 3: so twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, they talk
Speaker 3: about the Cicada thirty three oh one now being used
Speaker 3: as a ransomware and that this is it was on
Speaker 3: all the big tech sites, so this is apparently a
Speaker 3: thing that this got turned into.
Speaker 2: They don't feel that it has an association with it.
Speaker 1: So it's a copycat, but it's.
Speaker 3: A copycat of it that specifically used that though to
Speaker 3: do this, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, so yeah. Dissecting Cicada. A new ransomware group
Speaker 1: calling themselves Cicada thirty three oho one was observed in
Speaker 1: in June twenty twenty four when they posted four victims
Speaker 1: on a victim blog. Since then, Cicada thirty three oh
Speaker 1: one has added more victims to this list. The name
Speaker 1: Cicada thirty three oh one appears to be taken from
Speaker 1: an internet cryptography game a few years ago, but there
Speaker 1: is nothing to tie this ransomware group to that phenomena. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it appears to be a traditional ransomware as a
Speaker 1: service group that offers a platform for double extortion with
Speaker 1: both a ransomware and a data league site to its affiliates.
Speaker 1: The first published leak on the group's data leak site
Speaker 1: is dated to June twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Four
Speaker 1: days later, on June twenty nine, the group published an
Speaker 1: invitation to potential affiliates to join their ransomware as a
Speaker 1: service platform on the cybercrime forum ramp okay. As as
Speaker 1: advertised above, the Cicada group uses a ransomware written in
Speaker 1: Rust for both Windows and Linux hosts. This report will
Speaker 1: focus on the x ex eesxi Excuse Me ransomware. There
Speaker 1: are artifacts in the code that suggest that the Windows
Speaker 1: ransomware is the same ransomware, just as a different compilation.
Speaker 1: While more and more ransomware groups are adding the es
Speaker 1: XI ransomware to their arsenal, only a few groups are
Speaker 1: known to have used the es XI written in Rust.
Speaker 1: One of them is a now defunct black Cat alf
Speaker 1: V ransomware as a service group. Analysis of the code
Speaker 1: has also shown several similarities to the code to the
Speaker 1: ALFV set.
Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, so apparently they stole it from the
Speaker 3: black Cat group is pretty much what another website was saying,
Speaker 3: that they stole it or they converted it into this
Speaker 3: new one.
Speaker 1: Wow. So when they say ransomware, they're like they're extorting
Speaker 1: people seeking.
Speaker 3: From Yeah, they're storing money from companies and apparently they've
Speaker 3: hit a ton of companies and they have data proof
Speaker 3: of different types of financial stuff, different types of you know,
Speaker 3: blackmail pretty much, and they once they have a ransom
Speaker 3: they have also the leak attached to it, and so
Speaker 3: pretty much if you don't if you pay it but
Speaker 3: don't do a certain thing, then it will leak the
Speaker 3: information or if you pay, like there's a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of different stuff, and pretty much it talks about breaking
Speaker 3: down the they're trying to hunt this group down and
Speaker 3: try to basically not get hacked and get involved.
Speaker 2: In this situation. So this is true.
Speaker 3: SECT is a hacking AI platform group that talks about
Speaker 3: different stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But I just thought it was interesting because that was
Speaker 2: the first thing.
Speaker 3: That popped up when I typed in Cicada three point
Speaker 3: thirty one was this group that's ransoming out money from
Speaker 3: companies globally.
Speaker 1: And then keep in mind the Cicada, the original Cicada
Speaker 1: said to watch out for copycats and check the PGP
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's coming from the original source
Speaker 1: because they knew there was going to be a ton
Speaker 1: of copycats. They're going to try to use their name
Speaker 1: to do things. So yeah, I personally don't believe this
Speaker 1: is the same group, but I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: Wow. But yeah, so what an episode that was. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lie. I totally want to dig into this more.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, Oh my god, this there's so many
Speaker 1: levels to it. It goes so deep. Just the amount
Speaker 1: of work that was needed to break down the first
Speaker 1: code and then to go to the next one and
Speaker 1: go to the next one. Like I who has the
Speaker 1: time and the brain power to do this kind of shit?
Speaker 1: But apparently when one person got to the final element,
Speaker 1: there was like twenty people in the chat room, So
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, out of the entire world, maybe twenty
Speaker 1: people could figure it out. Okay, see it. I could
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: I could see it. It's such a minute number. But
Speaker 2: I don't know. I want to I'm not gonna lie until.
Speaker 3: You want to sit I don't have the time to
Speaker 3: do it, but I want to sit down and break
Speaker 3: everything down that they put into it and see how
Speaker 3: it all connects. And I mean, I don't We're never
Speaker 3: gonna know, and it's not like we're smart enough to
Speaker 3: figure that shit out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, you're not so. In conclusion, members Cicada
Speaker 1: thirty three to oh one. In twenty twelve, this random
Speaker 1: thing popped up and so many online brainiacts got their
Speaker 1: hands on it and decided they wanted to find out
Speaker 1: the deeper meaning. It led them down quite a rabbit hole,
Speaker 1: and then one month later it went away. They redid
Speaker 1: it again in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen and allegedly
Speaker 1: was as a recruiting tool. Was it from the government,
Speaker 1: Was it from a activist source? Was it from the Illuminati?
Speaker 1: Was it from the Aliens? We don't know. Was it
Speaker 1: from the Freemasons? We don't know. But they finally found
Speaker 1: whatever recruiting number they were looking for, because after three
Speaker 1: rounds of it, they finally sectioned it off and closed
Speaker 1: it down for good. What do you make of this?
Speaker 1: Where is it going? What is the overarching themes? What
Speaker 1: was their goal? The world may actually never know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do like how I do like how
Speaker 1: there's so much speculation, and how you and I were
Speaker 1: able to pull from this and come up with our
Speaker 1: own theories on this, and there's no right or wrong.
Speaker 1: There's no way of knowing.
Speaker 3: I have no idea either, but I'm curious to see
Speaker 3: what other cult members say, what their theories are, I
Speaker 3: mean mine, we're kind of just listening this the first
Speaker 3: time I've really heard of it, and just shot out
Speaker 3: of a cannon and just reading what I could while
Speaker 3: we were talking and all this stuff, and who knows.
Speaker 3: I do think though, that I personally think that it
Speaker 3: is some type of good that was going to come
Speaker 3: from this, and that the only way to find these
Speaker 3: people is utilized in the dark web. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of people that understand how to because that's where all
Speaker 3: the platforms are to break things down and to talk
Speaker 3: about all this stuff is through that your average Joe
Speaker 3: or even the people that are looking around, they're they're
Speaker 3: not going to just be on the web and just
Speaker 3: some random thing.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I think it might be an
Speaker 2: ancient society still. I think it might be a vigilante group.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it just seems it just seems.
Speaker 3: Too like in the positive of justice that for me personally,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's something they took whoever it was,
Speaker 3: and did good with it.
Speaker 1: But that's the other thing. Justice is subjective, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be there. There should be pretty pretty clear cut,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately it depends on who you ask. What is justice?
Speaker 1: How is justice truly served? Right? And so for these
Speaker 1: people's online interpretation of justice through an esoteric lens, is
Speaker 1: that the correct form of justice? And then who's to
Speaker 1: say if it is or is not correct? They had
Speaker 1: a very heavy emphasis on justice, a very heavy emphasis
Speaker 1: on secrecy. Secrecy. God, I'm having issues speaking and the
Speaker 1: occult and knowledge self enlightenment, enlightenment and totality, and then
Speaker 1: also a serious understanding of technical know how to be
Speaker 1: able to extrapolate all of these things. I don't know
Speaker 1: who they were hunting.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a matrix. Maybe it's the matrix, break the matrix.
Speaker 3: This is Morpheus, missus Morpheus.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's that he's trying to find the NEOs.
Speaker 3: You, yeah, Maybe that he's trying to find the NEOs
Speaker 3: and to break it through. I did actually think about
Speaker 3: that earlier too, but I just forgot about it. It
Speaker 3: would make sense, I mean, they need people that are
Speaker 3: able to read the binary codes and all the different
Speaker 3: shit that and be able to be so smart to
Speaker 3: break the.
Speaker 2: Matrix that is the global evil elite and all this stuff.
Speaker 3: If Jonathan is correct and we're living in alternate reality
Speaker 3: and all these things, we needed the smarter, the smart
Speaker 3: to be able to get to it, and it would
Speaker 3: break you. You would have a human death because everything
Speaker 3: you knew is ultimately a lie and we aren't even
Speaker 3: real like we're not actually experiencing the way that we're
Speaker 3: supposed to live.
Speaker 2: Woo man, mind blown.
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