WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:46.960 Oh redal Tzar oh Red of Hello and welcome to 2 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.439 the show. This is the Cult of Conspiracy and I 3 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.520 am the Cajun Night and Raven, and today we are 4 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.159 going to be taking a little bit of a of 5 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.880 a walk through the park into something that dates back 6 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.719 to twenty twelve and allegedly never really existed, but also 7 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.519 may have been a recruiting ground for one of the 8 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:10.120 big three letter agencies or one of the big hacker groups. 9 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.920 For anybody who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking 10 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.599 about here today we are going to be talking about 11 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.640 Cicada thirty three oh one. Before we get started here, Raven, 12 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.920 have you ever heard of Cicada three thirty one? 13 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.040 I have not. I don't know what you're talking about. 14 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:30.359 Okay, So the overview of this Cicada thirty three oh 15 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:37.519 one was a series of encrypted messages and ciphers and 16 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.879 codes and songs that would be sent to people's email addresses, 17 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.000 and you had to extrapolate the soundbites from that to 18 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.200 find binary codes that you could use as a cipher 19 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.680 to decode whatever message you got. Last. Some of these 20 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.519 were based out of literary sources. Some of these were 21 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.760 based out of you know, geolocations. Then you know, as 22 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.560 time went on, there was fourteen locations around the world 23 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.200 that you had to go and like scan this QR code. 24 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.519 And so it wasn't just you know, nerds in their 25 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.319 basement just tapping away on the computer to find these codes. 26 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:11.400 You actually had to get out of your house and 27 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:14.000 go find these things. And that led to another call, 28 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.719 not that yeah. 29 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:16.520 I've heard about that. 30 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.080 I heard about the QR codes and people traveling around 31 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:22.800 and like taking photos of them, yeah, and saying like 32 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.080 I found this one, here's the next one, and I 33 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:26.680 know about that. 34 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:28.240 I never knew there was a name or that it 35 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:29.639 was actually something real. 36 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.719 And then also if you shared your intel with anyone else, 37 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.039 you were kicked from the program. And they didn't know 38 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.039 that at first. So basically, these people that were on 39 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.199 these online forums and stuff, hey I figured out this 40 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.919 code by bap bop, they would receive an email when 41 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:45.800 they got to a certain point saying it's clear that 42 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.319 you can't be trusted, so thank you for your participation, 43 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.840 but you know, bye, uh it wold. Then you also 44 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:56.400 had to have a working understanding of Mayan numerology of 45 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:00.000 ancient Nordic rooms. Those came up. That's actually the last 46 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.599 code that has yet to be deciphered. It's a it's 47 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.560 called Liber Primus, and it is a series of Nordic 48 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.199 rune runic messages that only I think one out of 49 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:13.719 the twelve has been decoded. 50 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.800 That's wild. Yeah, I mean, is it like a Mariotti situation? 51 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.199 What do you mean by that? Because that one's John 52 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:22.479 I'm drawn a blank on Mariotti. 53 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.639 Marriotti is Sherlock Holmes's arch nemesis. 54 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.599 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like you know, the decoding 55 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:30.639 of all of. 56 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.520 That well, kind of yes, kind of no. Because along 57 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:36.840 the way, Cicada three thirty one thirty three oh one 58 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.639 rather released a message saying who they are, quote unquote, 59 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.800 they said that they are comparative to a think tank. 60 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.800 They're only looking for the best and the brightest, and 61 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.759 they are not doing any kind of illegal acts. And 62 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.840 as a matter of fact, they knew who the people 63 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.520 were that were making it this far because they're smart, 64 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:58.800 and they were letting them know that if you are 65 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.120 somebody who is engaging any legal activities, either stop your 66 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.479 shit now or you're no longer continuing. We're not gonna 67 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.039 ask questions if you don't want to continue, but understand 68 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.039 that we ain't about that kind of shit either. And 69 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.319 it's like, so is this like it's crazy weird. 70 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.759 Yeah, there's a show that was released like two years ago, 71 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:22.519 I think on Netflix where they get these like alien 72 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.399 tech head like these things that they put over their 73 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.399 head and they play these intense games and pretty much 74 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.079 like they have to decipher it, and it's like brilliant minds. 75 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:32.720 It was nefarious. 76 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.199 It led into aliens and like taking over the world 77 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.160 and all this stuff. But the premise of that was 78 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.199 to send stuff to really intelligent people that they knew 79 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.240 were intelligent to see who could make it. 80 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:44.879 And who couldn't. 81 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.360 And like they couldn't talk about it with each other either, 82 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:48.319 they didn't and. 83 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:50.560 Then when they did they ended up dying. But it's 84 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:51.079 the whole thing. 85 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.920 But okay, so that might be based off of this. Honestly, 86 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.240 now to our knowledge, nobody died allegedly. We don't like it, So. 87 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.040 Noah is actually cracked it full Like, what happened to 88 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:01.959 the people that did it? 89 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.560 Are they the prime hackers or who? 90 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:09.920 I'm not gonna say nobody cracked it because the bitch 91 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:12.319 of it is if somebody did crack it. They wouldn't 92 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.279 have gone public about it. We would never know who 93 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:17.040 they were there, if they did, and if they accepted 94 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.439 whatever offer was being extended to them, we would never 95 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.240 know their name. Nobody would ever know what they did 96 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.959 or how they ended up working for this agency, this 97 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:29.240 think tank, this activist group. Who knows, who knows, But 98 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.720 we do know that in twenty seventeen was the last 99 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.519 time that a message was sent out from Cicada thirty 100 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.560 three to ZHO one. And allegedly no one has deciphered 101 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.560 it yet. However, I think that some have and they 102 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.879 just can't talk about it. There's tons of speculation, there's 103 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.959 tons of theories as to what this was, who this 104 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:53.279 was from, what was the overarching point of it all. 105 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.519 You know, some of these people they think, which we're 106 00:05:57.519 --> 00:05:59.120 going to actually hear a clip from the Wi Fi 107 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.079 I was good old WiFi, I'll shout out. He believes 108 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.240 that this was a thing for the government, right, the CIA, 109 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.839 the NSA, the FBI, the whatever, to try to find 110 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.720 the greatest hacking minds there were. But then when people 111 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.319 got to the final endpoint, they realized that that's what 112 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.199 it was, and they just decided to stop because they 113 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:21.879 didn't want to work for the government because they were 114 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.839 loving the puzzle solving, right, It's like a dopamine hit. 115 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.600 And then when they figured out that all this was 116 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.639 to get a government job, they're like, nah, I just 117 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.240 wanted to decode puzzles, so dip out Like there's tons, 118 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.800 there's tons of theories, and none of them are any 119 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.399 more or less crazy or stupid than the other, because 120 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:39.560 no one knows. 121 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.839 What if it's like a breeding ground for aliens, like 122 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.040 a type of like super intelligence, and they're picking the 123 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:46.839 best of the best. 124 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:48.959 Yo, is this how they're finding the star children? 125 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.000 Yeah, maybe that's maybe how they're doing it. 126 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:53.879 They're picking out the best of the brightest, and they're like, 127 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.839 you know what, we're far superior than these little measly humans. 128 00:06:57.839 --> 00:06:59.920 We're just going to take the absolute smartest. 129 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.959 I mean it could be, it could be, so, you 130 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:04.680 know what, We're just gonna get into it. Aside from 131 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.759 us bumping our gums and talking that shit, we are 132 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.600 gonna actually start reading some articles, some first hand accounts. 133 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.439 We're actually gonna hear from the guy who was the 134 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.879 first one to decode the first message, and we're gonna 135 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.399 learn more about Cicada thirty three oh one together, good 136 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.680 cult members. If you would like to see the articles 137 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.120 in the videos that we are gonna be playing on 138 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.079 this episode rather than just hear us talk about it, 139 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.199 the only place you can go would be too patreon 140 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.839 dot com slash Cult Conspiracy Podcasts. When you go there, 141 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.759 we have a couple of tiers for entry. 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Without further ado, let's learn more about 186 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.320 Cicada thirty three to oh one. All right, so here 187 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.799 we have it. This is just a quick Wikipedia read down. 188 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:36.399 We're not going to read the whole article about it, 189 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.840 but this will kind of give us a good little 190 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:42.879 a little introduction, okay, and this is the cicada in question. 191 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:47.840 This is the image that started at all So Cicada 192 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.120 thirty three oh one is the name given eight sets 193 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.879 of puzzles posted under the name thirty three oh one 194 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.720 online between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen. The first puzzle 195 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.360 started on January fourth, twenty twelve, on four chan. As always, 196 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:04.000 anything of the deep Web has to start on four cham, 197 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.000 but don't worry. The dark Web makes its appearance into this. 198 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:10.240 Ancient literature makes its appearance into this. Some would even 199 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.559 say occult symbolism, because it was always about achieving enlightenment. 200 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.279 We're we're gonna get to it anyway, and it ran 201 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:19.039 for nearly a month. A second round of puzzles began 202 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:23.480 one year and one day later actually in twenty thirteen, 203 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.639 and then a third round following the confirmation of a 204 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.360 fresh clue posted on Twitter on January fourth, twenty fourteen. 205 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:34.519 The third puzzle remains unsolved. The stated intent was to 206 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.679 recruit quote unquote intelligent individuals by presenting a series of 207 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.360 puzzles to be solved. No new puzzles were published on 208 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.799 January fourth, twenty fifteen. A new clue was posted on 209 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.519 Twitter on January fifth, twenty sixteen, and Cicada thirty three 210 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.559 oh one posted their last verified open PGP signed message 211 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.639 on April or in April twenty seventeen, denying the validity 212 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:01.360 of any unsigned puzzle. So they start using PGP, which 213 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:06.519 stands for pretty Good Protection. Basically it's it's like an 214 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.120 IP address, so basically you can verify if this is 215 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.759 being sent from the source that it's claiming. Because there 216 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.519 was tons of people that were like, uh, it's false. 217 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.399 Cicadas that were sending out messages to make people start 218 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.440 decoding them in things, but they were very clear, no, 219 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.919 no check the PGP like this. If it's not verified, 220 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.000 US don't even fuck with it. The puzzles focused heavily 221 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:33.480 on data security, cryptography, steganography, and Internet anonymity. We're gonna 222 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.000 talk about what steganography and some of these other things 223 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:37.879 that they used was. It was quite ingenious. 224 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:38.799 Uh. 225 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.639 It has been called the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle 226 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.919 of the Internet age, and is listed as one of 227 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.159 the top five eeriest unsolved mysteries on the Internet by 228 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.240 the Washington Post, and much speculation exists as to its function. 229 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:55.279 Many have speculated that the puzzles are a recruitment tool 230 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.240 for the NSA, CIA, m I six, or even the 231 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:03.360 Freemasons or Cybermrcenary Group, which I have to tell you, 232 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.519 I'm leaning more towards a cybermercenary group. But we'll get 233 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.200 to our own personal theories towards the end. Others have 234 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.440 stated Cicada thirty three oh one is an alternate reality game, 235 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:17.000 although no company or individual has attempted to monetize it. Yeah, 236 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:21.120 there's nobody benefited from this. They were never selling anything. 237 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:24.279 It was about seeing if you were smart enough to 238 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:30.279 figure it. I mean, who's to say, right anyway, So, 239 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.480 the stated purpose of the puzzles each year was to 240 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.799 recruit highly intelligent individuals, although the ultimate purpose remains unknown. 241 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.360 Theories have included claims that Cicada thirty three oh one 242 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.480 is a secret society with the goal of improving cryptography, 243 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:49.080 privacy and anonymity, or that it is a cult or religion. 244 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.360 According to statements of several people who won the twenty 245 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.080 twelve puzzle, thirty three oh one typically uses non puzzle 246 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.759 based recruiting methods, but created the Cicada puzzle because they 247 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.039 were looking for potential members with cryptography and computer security skills. 248 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.080 So we're going to get into some of the more 249 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.440 in depth looks at all of this. This article is 250 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.279 from The Guardian as a matter of fact, and it 251 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.600 talks about the person who tried and had failed to 252 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:18.080 actually break the code here Cicada thirty three oh one. 253 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.600 I tried the hardest puzzle on the Internet and failed spectacularly. 254 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.440 On screen right now you'll see some Nordic runes, some 255 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.159 in red, some in black, in the Cicada. It might 256 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.960 seem a little weird, but this is actually part of 257 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.399 a puzzle, and this is if I'm not mistaken, it's 258 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:34.159 part of the puzzle that has not been solved to 259 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.879 this day, so no one knows who sets it up 260 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.240 up sets it or what the prize is at the end. 261 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.440 But Cicada thirty three oh one is back for its 262 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.440 third year and the internet has gone wild. So this 263 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.600 was actually posted. Where's the date on this one? I 264 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.759 just want to see if it's a if this person 265 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:55.600 did it relatively recently or not, And I see nothing. 266 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.279 It's gonna be on your left hand side at the top. 267 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.919 I've seen it. I'm a little retarded. It's okay, all right. 268 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.120 So this is in twenty fourteen, okaynos. 269 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.519 More than twelve years ago. That is what it said. 270 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.960 So this is back when Cicada was like, it just released, 271 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.720 it's its latest, so this was current to the time. 272 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.480 So let's get into it here. The hardest puzzle on 273 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.519 the Internet is not perhaps something to be attempted on 274 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.759 whim during a quiet January afternoon, But ever since I 275 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.480 first heard of Cicada thirty three oh one, a mysterious 276 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.279 event somewhere in the intersect of a game, a competition, 277 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:32.039 and a job interview, I wanted to test my metal. 278 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.080 It couldn't be that hard, right wrong. Cicada thirty three 279 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.720 oh one first appeared in January twenty twelve, with the 280 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.919 picture posted on four Chan the notorious message board which 281 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:46.279 has given birth to everything from log cats to Anonymous. Yeah, 282 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.720 we're talking about the q Andon people, which some believe. 283 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:51.879 That's also what Cicada thirty three to old one was. 284 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.720 They were looking for recruits for QAnon. I don't know, 285 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.039 we're gonna we're gonna talk, We're gonna get there anyway. 286 00:14:59.279 --> 00:14:59.960 That's interesting. 287 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.799 I mean, the Anonymous hacker group allegedly has no ties 288 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.159 to QAnon, even though there's a lot of blatant ties. 289 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.840 But we'll get to all of it. Who knows, it's 290 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.519 all speculation at this point. In white text on a 291 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.559 black background, the post a message read Hello, we are 292 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:20.320 looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have 293 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:23.799 devised the test. There is a message hidden in this image. 294 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.279 Find it and it will lead you on the road 295 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.759 to finding us. We look forward to meeting the feud 296 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.320 that make it all the way through. Good luck thirty 297 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.360 three oh one. Every one of their messages was signed 298 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.240 thirty three oh one at the end. So whenever you 299 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.720 went in and you found the code and you did 300 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.519 the things, this image would pop up. It was a 301 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:46.399 duck and it said whoops, just decoys. This way looks 302 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.360 like you can't guess how to get the message out. Now, 303 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:53.039 here's the deal. Within this message, within this image, there 304 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:59.000 is a code. Out guess is a software program that 305 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.679 you can use to decode things. But unless you knew that, 306 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:04.559 or at least it knew that that was what they 307 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.159 were trying to go here, you would have thought, oh god, 308 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.759 what is this? And I remember seeing this image and 309 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.120 everybody's like, it's the purple thing behind the wing. That's 310 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.919 the clue. It's got to be No. Out guests was 311 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.360 the clue, and you were supposed to take this image 312 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.840 to go to out guests and go from there. But anyway, 313 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:23.200 let's continue. That message led to a series of puzzles, 314 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.440 each harder than the last. The first few were just 315 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.000 about as solvable as a canny individual working alone, requiring 316 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.919 little more than mild coding ability and wordplayed to get passed, 317 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.080 but as participants fell deeper into the rabbit hole, the 318 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.519 references became less obvious. One clue involved a poem from 319 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:44.159 a collection of medieval Welsh manuscripts. Another a quote from 320 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.399 a William Gibson book which was only released on a 321 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.799 three point five inch floppies. Yeah, you had to go 322 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.639 and find a floppy disc of this book from William 323 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:59.120 Gibson to find the code within the paragraphs to decode 324 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:00.120 the message. 325 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.960 I love really hard puzzles and I'm not gonna lie 326 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.799 to you. I'm like, wooh, I'm super intrigued. 327 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.480 I mean, there's a lot of the answers that are 328 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.119 publicly known online, but the third series have not been 329 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.000 solved so ravenly. If you want to get after it, 330 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:14.160 who knows. 331 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.440 I don't think that I'm a brilliant mind to be 332 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.720 able to get after it. I don't think I'm smart 333 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.759 enough for all of that. But yourself, I do love 334 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.119 me some really hard puzzles, and I love to do 335 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.480 the whole you know, here go, here go. Hear chasings down. 336 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.759 They're always so fun. 337 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.759 Yeah they are. I just if I had any kind 338 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.759 of background in coding, I might fuck with it, But 339 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.640 I boy with what time? You know? Seriously, yeah, I know. 340 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.480 Cooperating on chatrooms and message boards, a growing collection of 341 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.400 puzzle solvers broke the codes one by one. When the 342 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.960 game moved into the real world, a series of GPS 343 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.920 coordinates were posted, leading to QR codes attached to lamp 344 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.559 posts over five different nations. From Poland to Austria. It 345 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.880 was clear that no single could hope to solve everything, 346 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.160 but as quickly as the cooperation was encouraged, it was 347 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:08.920 snuffed out. The final puzzle directed players to an address 348 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.839 for a website on tour. Yes, that would be the 349 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.839 Dark Internet. We're going on to now the anonymous browser 350 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.839 now best known for its use by the Silkrow black market. 351 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.480 But only the fastest movers got to see what was 352 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.240 on this page. It was shortly blanked and replaced with 353 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.200 a statement we want the best, not the followers. For 354 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:32.799 those deemed followers, Cicada was over. So it's like, and 355 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:34.680 I don't know the actual numbers here, if it was 356 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.079 like the first five hundred people to get to that 357 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.079 website and then five ozho one the website was shut down, 358 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:44.880 and so it was, and then if you shared whatever 359 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.559 was on that website, you were kicked out and they 360 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.799 would send you an email basically thanking you for your time. 361 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.920 Wild things. So now let's get into the repetition here. Then, 362 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.759 on January fifth, twenty thirteen, one year and one day 363 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:02.119 later after the first, a new image was uploaded onto 364 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.440 four chan's b message board, saying hello again. Our search 365 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:10.200 for intelligent individuals now continues. Again, this image led to 366 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.759 a series of puzzles. Again, the puzzles eventually point to 367 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.319 locations in the real world, and again the trail was 368 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.799 abruptly closed off to all but the best players. Those 369 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.480 who failed two years in a row had no choice 370 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.160 but to wait and hope the pattern would repeat itself. 371 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.920 It did. This year's puzzle began slightly different. Rather than 372 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.960 an image posted on four cham, a Twitter feed which 373 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.319 had been involved in the twenty thirteen's hunt sprang to 374 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.960 life again, sharing yet another image of white text on 375 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.839 a black background, albeit one with more gnomic text than 376 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:47.400 ever before. Says, Hello, epiphany is upon you. Your pilgrimage 377 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.440 has begun. Enlightenment awaits now. You see how it's kind 378 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:54.319 of dipping into some of the more occult themes, the 379 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:55.880 spiritual things, you know. 380 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:58.680 Hey, okay, okay, all. 381 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.960 Right, so h This is when the author actually decided 382 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:03.640 to jump in here. It says this year, I tried 383 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:06.079 to join the hunt. So far it hasn't gone well. 384 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:11.279 I at least appreciate the author's honesty, like, oh yeah, man, 385 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:13.680 I'm figuring it out. No, I'm gonna be honest I 386 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:15.319 can't figure this shit. This is weird. 387 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:20.240 I mean, that's fair, it doesn't. It definitely looks interesting 388 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:21.720 because there's a lot of coded stuff. 389 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.759 I looked up the different various codes for it. 390 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:28.839 Oh yeah, it's interesting because I'm uh, because there's actually 391 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:31.319 I don't know, you probably saw this, but there is 392 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:35.960 a new revised to KADA three thirty one group that's 393 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.440 actually a ransom group for a double ended ransom group 394 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:43.200 that they've apparently already hit like twenty one companies as 395 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:48.680 of twenty twenty four, five large companies excuse me, twenty 396 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:53.279 one large companies, five smaller companies. They're apparently they're using 397 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.319 the term that they actually call themselves, the Kada three 398 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:56.839 thirty one. 399 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:00.640 Okay, so if there's an article, pull that up, because 400 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:02.960 we're gonna need to talk about We're gonna to talk 401 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.079 about that towards the end, because I don't know how 402 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.240 many of those are phonies and how many of those 403 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:09.359 are the actual Cicada group, because who's to say one 404 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:09.920 way or another. 405 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.000 Well, they said that it's a spin off from the 406 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:17.000 group itself, but they they're using that name as their 407 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:21.039 actual group to beet a ransom group. 408 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:23.960 They're using ransom software that's online. 409 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:26.079 So I haven't looked into what the group is up 410 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.799 to today because I'm just looking at from twenty twelve 411 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:31.599 to twenty seventeen, what they did, how they did it 412 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.119 in this kind of thing. If there's some modern things 413 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:35.519 that are going on with it. Yeah, we're going to 414 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:37.599 talk about that one towards the end. Oh my god, 415 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:40.319 all right, so back to what we were talking about. 416 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:42.440 It says, in fact, it could have been stated or 417 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:45.119 I'm sorry, In fact, it couldn't have started any worse 418 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:47.640 is when he was trying to decipher it in twenty fourteen. 419 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.960 There are two messages buried in the image file. The 420 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:54.279 first is easy enough to get. The black image isn't 421 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:57.039 actually pure black. Instead, it's very dark gray, and he 422 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.599 is the image of the cicada. A couple of seconds 423 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:02.440 messing at the color levels and photoshop and it made 424 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:06.480 it visible. So this was the original image, and once 425 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:09.079 you messed around with photoshop a little bit, you were 426 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.000 able to see the cicada. Okay, cool, So that was 427 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:17.200 like the first bit on here. Unfortunately, the actually important 428 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:20.319 message was harder to get. As with the previous two years, 429 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:24.119 the image included text hidden with steganography, a technique which 430 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:28.160 lets users bury information in seemingly innocuous files. To get 431 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:30.960 the information out, require me to use a program called 432 00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:34.880 out guests. To install out Guests, I need to compile 433 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.519 the program from the source. To do that, I need 434 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:41.960 to install x code, the MACOSX developer tools. Create a 435 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.200 new command line project based on the source code I downloaded, 436 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:49.200 reconfigure the program for Mac, deal with the dependency issues, 437 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:52.519 build it, and then run it from the terminal. This 438 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:54.680 is to do the first that was a lot. That was. 439 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.640 A lot. You No, I'm not smart enough, you. 440 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:00.799 See what I'm saying. And I know, for like tech people, 441 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:01.839 they're gonna be like, oh, well. 442 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.720 That's somebody though, yeah, I know somebody that could do this, 443 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:05.880 But I really do. 444 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:08.960 I mean that person that you know might have already 445 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:10.440 done this and got to the end of the yellow 446 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:12.000 brick road and was like, yeah, I'm not. 447 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.440 Doing that, to be fair, he works, he works deep 448 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:16.160 in the government now and like none of us have 449 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:17.640 heard from him for a hot minute. 450 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:20.759 But shit, like he's really really smart. 451 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:23.880 So he was actually a coder and did like all 452 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.759 that stuff and calm in the Marine Corps and then 453 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:30.160 he got out, well, he got approached to do stuff 454 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.319 with the government, and then he got out, and like 455 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:35.200 last I heard from him, he was like, yeah, I 456 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:38.880 got this position like super high up in doing like 457 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.279 decoding and codes and all this stuff in the government. 458 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:48.240 And I'm like, to be fair, he is crazy intelligent, Like, oh, 459 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:51.119 you know he is, and so I don't doubt that 460 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:53.119 he could solve this puzzle. He actually is the one 461 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:54.920 of the ones that showed me the dark Web and 462 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:56.559 like how to get to it and do all this stuff. 463 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:58.359 And he's like, oh, yeah, you go here in this code, 464 00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:00.319 in this code, and I'm like, you know, oh, I'm 465 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:01.599 smart in some ways. 466 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:01.640 But like. 467 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.519 Smart, I didn't think i'd ever have to ask you 468 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:09.119 this question, But just serious, now, do you think your 469 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:11.079 boy might be a Cicada boy? 470 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.200 If I was to guess of any any person I know, 471 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:17.559 which I know some pretty intelligent people, I would say 472 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:19.519 that he is probably one of the people that could 473 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.279 have if he didn't hear about it, I know he 474 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:24.559 probably heard about it. Honestly, he probably solved it if 475 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:25.319 I was a guess. 476 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:26.000 He is so. 477 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:30.920 Smart, but very very quiet. The most timid, quiet person 478 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:33.359 hardly says a word to anybody. But when it comes 479 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.279 to computer stuff, oh my god, there's like no one 480 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:37.400 I know that's better than that. 481 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.440 So if I was to guess, I believe that he 482 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:41.039 would be one. 483 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.799 Damn okay, Raven might actually have a plug into Cicada. 484 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:48.240 Who knew. But you see what I'm saying, like off 485 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.519 of that first image, the whole the whoops, I guess 486 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.799 you have to do something to figure it out. You 487 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:55.720 had to know that. What they meant was, oh, you 488 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.960 got to go to out guests, which, like most people 489 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:01.119 is never going to know what guess is, They're never 490 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:03.599 gonna know to download that and then all this other 491 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.279 stuff that was just listed out, install x code, go 492 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.440 to the developer tools, compare it or do the discrepancies 493 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:12.359 for Mac and all that. Like this to a tech person, 494 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:14.319 oh yeah, I could bust that out in my ten minutes, 495 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.200 no problem. D For regular people like you and I 496 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:19.160 and most of our cult members were like, I'm sorry, 497 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:21.559 that was a whole lot of gibberation. It sounded real 498 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:25.000 tech knowlogy, and there's that you know. So all right, 499 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:27.359 So maybe. 500 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:29.160 If someone had showed me and like taught me how 501 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.559 to do this stuff, Okay, I could probably once I learned, 502 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.759 I could probably know it, But just to know it 503 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:38.200 out the gate, no, So. 504 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:40.559 I like how the author is a normal person, he said. 505 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:42.559 What I actually do is been the better part of 506 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.000 an hour clicking around in x code, desperately trying to 507 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:47.119 find a magic button to click which will make everything 508 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.200 work without requiring me to learn how to code in 509 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.039 an afternoon. There is no such button. This may be 510 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.680 harder than I thought. I appreciate the realness, honestly, out 511 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.799 of desperation, I turned to the community. Apparently I'm a 512 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:02.640 few days behind the curve. They've already extracted the text 513 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:05.119 and solved the puzzle. As I look at the solution, 514 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:08.559 my hope begins to melt. It's really mind boggling, ob 515 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:13.079 twose a mind bogglingly obtuse. Okay, So here was the solution. 516 00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:16.359 The text, which can be extracted from the image is 517 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:19.599 split into three parts. The third is just a signature 518 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:22.200 proof that the image really does come from Cicada and 519 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:25.559 that it isn't it hasn't been tampered with. But above 520 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:28.480 it is the next step of the puzzle. The first 521 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:30.880 part reads like a poem. I'm gonna I'm gonna do 522 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.279 my best to read this and make it sound like 523 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.839 it's from them, but hear me out the work of 524 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:40.119 a private man who wished to be transcend, or who 525 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:44.119 wished to transcend he trusted himself to produce from within. 526 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.720 That's followed by a series of numbers separated by colon's one, 527 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:53.400 colon two, colon three, colon one, slash three, colon three, 528 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:58.400 colon thirteen, colon five, slash forty five, colon five, colon two, 529 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:02.519 colon three, and so on cat with the word dot onion. 530 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.079 That last bit means that the solution, when found, will 531 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:09.240 be the URL to another website on tour, following the 532 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:12.000 pattern of the previous year. So once again you gotta 533 00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:13.759 go to the dark web. So even after you do 534 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.039 all of these other things, you're gonna have to go 535 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:18.240 to a tour browser just to go to the next step. 536 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:23.279 So I don't know what the uh, what the sourcing means, 537 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:29.200 what the code, the symbolisms, the sequencing. I have no idea, 538 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:32.160 but apparently people were easy. 539 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:35.599 Do you think it retains later to like the other messages? 540 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:38.000 Later on? Do they stack onto each other? 541 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:42.400 Some did, okay, some did, some didn't. Some of them. 542 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.960 Basically once you figured out the code and you were 543 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.000 onto the next one. Like later on they bring up 544 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.640 a Holy Grail and an image of King Arthur that 545 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:52.599 you have to like squinch down and turn into one 546 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.640 of those like seeing eye pictures to see a thing, 547 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:58.680 and so like, this code has nothing to do with 548 00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:01.200 King Arthur or the Holy Grail. Later when they bring 549 00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:04.880 up Tiberius Julius Caesar, there's a connection between him and 550 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.440 King Arthur that people have to make that comparison. And 551 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.920 it's like, I wait what, and it's it's all over 552 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:11.319 the place. 553 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.279 It's all so I don't believe that this is a 554 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.279 just random stuff like the code that's a code for 555 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:18.160 it in and of itself. 556 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.279 Now I'm intrigued. 557 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:22.400 Now you got my mind thinking this is years ago 558 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.920 and I'm over here like I want. 559 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:24.400 To solve it. 560 00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:25.920 Well, as always. 561 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:27.599 I'm not smart about codes, but like. 562 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:32.599 As a time of recording, this was almost nine years 563 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:35.839 ago when the last message was sent out. But we're 564 00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:38.160 gonna get to it all because some people say that 565 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:40.400 it just that's all it was was a big game, 566 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.599 a big Internet game. Some say this was absolutely like 567 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.119 a job fare for those that knew what to. 568 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.559 Do a lot of work though for just a game. 569 00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.160 And nobody made money off of it. None of it 570 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.839 was monetized. There was no commercials, no ads, no nothing 571 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.000 for that much work for no yield. I'm I don't 572 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:02.440 believe that this was just for the fuck of it. 573 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.079 Does anybody know if people like actually survived though it 574 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.960 got to like the inn levels, I. 575 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.960 Wonder some some but the last clues still have not 576 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:17.960 been solved to this day, allegedly allegedly because if they 577 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:20.799 were solved, we would never know about it because the 578 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:22.799 first person that comes forward and says, I did it, 579 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:25.359 Cekada's going to shut them down immediately. So like, we 580 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:29.119 don't know. So let's get back to the code here. 581 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.519 So how is it solved? The numbers give a clue. 582 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.400 The code probably involves a book. That format is a 583 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:36.960 relatively known way of using a book as a key 584 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.880 to a code. The first digit is the paragraph, the 585 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:42.440 second is the sentence, the third is the word, and 586 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:46.400 the fourth letter the fourth is the letter. But which book? 587 00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:50.200 So this is called a Caesar cipher by the way. 588 00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.880 And as a matter of fact, there was a code 589 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.720 or excuse me, a treasure map that was used for this. 590 00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:58.720 Have you ever heard of the Beal ciphers. 591 00:29:59.079 --> 00:29:59.880 I don't know. 592 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:05.440 The bial ciphers are three pages which basically tells where 593 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:09.839 the location of forty three million dollars somewhere in is 594 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:14.839 it Butler, Virginia, but so Bedford County, excuse me, somewhere 595 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:17.559 in Bedford County, Virginia. There's forty three million dollars worth 596 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:20.559 of gold and silver and all these things buried, and 597 00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:24.359 the location of these things are in these encrypted images. 598 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:27.119 Right now, here's the deal. This is what it looks like. 599 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:33.039 And apparently the second page was decoded using the Decoration 600 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.799 of Independence, so the Declaration of Independence was used in 601 00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:39.440 the same way that those numbers were. This is the paragraph, 602 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:41.519 this is the line, this is the word, and this 603 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.319 is the letter. And from that you're able to take 604 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:48.160 and figure out the location of the gold, or so 605 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.599 they say. Anyway, but we don't know what number one 606 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.200 and number three of the Beal ciphers are actually entailing. 607 00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:59.960 Number two is the only one that's ever been decoded, 608 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:02.480 and they knew that that was supposed to be used 609 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:05.839 from the Decoration of Independence. We have no idea what 610 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.480 document or what book. Number one and number three was 611 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:13.960 supposed to be decoded from. So there are other ciphers 612 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:15.920 and other maps that have been used in a very 613 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.920 similar fashion. So whenever you see these numbers, so this 614 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:23.559 is page one, paragraph two, word three, and then the 615 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.160 first letter of that word. So from that you're able 616 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:29.519 to take this and figure out which book right. So 617 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.119 let's read this here It says your help is greatly appreciated, 618 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.799 but please use as many headings as you can to 619 00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:39.400 break long documents in smaller chunks. By placing a section 620 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.920 under headings two, it gets its own edit button next 621 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:45.880 to heading, thus making it easier to edit. Try to 622 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.000 put new header eight height of one screen. You can 623 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.160 edit only smaller chunks without having code of whole document 624 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.559 on one screen. It also prevents collisions since many authors 625 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:03.119 can edit text under different headers at the same time. Also, 626 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.880 keep in code form all strings we got from outguests 627 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.039 so they are searchable in Wilder. I think that's how 628 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:13.559 it's kind of blurry as far as these words concerned. Also, 629 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.680 don't delete multiple links to same pacete. Those paces are 630 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:20.759 not forever. We need them as backups. Keep as many 631 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:26.000 different links. Paste bind pasty info toom and in Wikia 632 00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:28.640 as possible. Also, do not delete things that might be 633 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.240 possible hents for next step, even if they do not 634 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:33.640 seem important at the moment, they may be relevant later. 635 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.279 Thanks to everyone for contributing. So this is basically the 636 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:41.279 Circado wiki, right, they had people that at this time, 637 00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:44.440 we're still trying to share information to find the clues 638 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.559 later on, whenever it was revealed that like, no, that'll 639 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.039 work for a point, like working together is going to 640 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.799 be a critical thing for this, and then yeah, no 641 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.279 more working together. We need to know if you're trustworthy 642 00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:56.160 as an individual. 643 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:02.599 So okay, based off of still round one, correct, this is. 644 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:04.920 I think this is round two. This so this article 645 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.839 is from twenty fourteen, so actually no, no, this was Yeah, 646 00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:13.119 this was round three. So round one was in twenty twelve, 647 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.839 Round two was in twenty thirteen, and round three was 648 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.759 in twenty fourteen. Okay, and that's only been there's only 649 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:21.720 been three rounds. 650 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.279 Yeah, because it I was kind of like looking at 651 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.839 where they had to go and stuff like that, and 652 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:28.920 it was interesting because they had to go. So when 653 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:35.839 the clock hit zero, they had gotten GPS coordinations for Warsaw, Paris, Soul, Sydney, Seattle, 654 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:36.599 and New Orleans. 655 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.920 Yeah, and so that was another thing. New Orleans was 656 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:41.839 on that list, which was very interesting for a lot 657 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:43.759 of things. And if you look at those cities individually, 658 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.240 there's some that could it be government things, possibly, could 659 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.680 it be occult things possibly, Like there's there's no they 660 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:51.000 had to. 661 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:54.200 Physically travel to each location, which is wild that they 662 00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.119 sent them on a wild goose chase pretty much. 663 00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:58.759 And I don't know how many of you have ever 664 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:04.440 used that long to find a specific point. So me 665 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:06.880 and my friends used to do something called geocaching. You 666 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:07.440 know what that is. 667 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:09.239 Now. 668 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:14.239 Geocash is a website where you go and there's geocash 669 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:18.280 locations all over the world, right and they give you 670 00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:22.159 the grid coordinates to go and find things. National parks 671 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:23.559 have a lot of them as a matter of fact, 672 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.519 and it will tell you, you know where to go, 673 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:29.559 look up in this tree or under this rock, or 674 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.400 whatever the case, and you'll find typically like an ammocam 675 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.199 or something that is sealed to where moisture can't get in, 676 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.400 and you're supposed to leave something. You're supposed to take 677 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:41.079 something and leave something. It's usually like a toy, a 678 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:44.119 challenge coin, maybe money, or whatever the case would be 679 00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:47.320 here's the deal. I don't know how many people have 680 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.039 actually used like grid coordinates to find a specific location. 681 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:56.199 Whenever human error is a thing, it is not so easy. 682 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.880 So whenever you're giving somebody some sort of a latitude 683 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:01.519 and longitude for the city of New Orleans bro on 684 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:06.039 which city block that might actually be, is insane. And 685 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.320 so these people were just they had to figure it out. 686 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.679 Yeah. So I'm gonna read really quick this thing though, 687 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.880 because it actually all the images led together to lead to. 688 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:16.599 The Book of the Dead. 689 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.400 Yeah, because which. 690 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:21.320 Led to a Tora website. So everybody kind. 691 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.039 Of ran to these websites, ran to the coordinates, and 692 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:27.960 they took photos, and everybody used it together to upload 693 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.719 into this image host that was like eight four five 694 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:35.159 one four five one two seven dot com dot and 695 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:37.559 inside that the solvers found a reference to the Book 696 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.000 of the Dead, which led them to a tora a website. 697 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.559 And then the first visitors of the website apparently. 698 00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:46.360 Got recruited, and those who got who got there later 699 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.519 saw message that said we wanted the best, not the followers. 700 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:53.119 It's the CAD's way of filtering out the copycats. Yeah, 701 00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:55.920 and this website is really interesting. Here that shows all 702 00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:58.559 the different stuff with it. So I didn't realize when 703 00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:02.920 you said it was runic thing. It's fifty eight pages 704 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:03.239 of it. 705 00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:05.199 Yeah, we're gonna pull them up here in a minute. 706 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:08.239 I have them. And it's unless you can read Nordic 707 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:12.199 ruins and then extrapolate whatever code that you're supposed to 708 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.320 be able to get from this, you're you're just shit 709 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.920 out of luck. But yeah, they brought in the Book 710 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.119 of the Dead things from Julius Caesar, the King Arthur, 711 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.800 like all of these things are brought in as well 712 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:24.960 as being a tech nerd enough to be able to 713 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:26.960 use code, and they had. 714 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:29.000 To be a historian as well and be able to 715 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.239 and be able to decipher all these things. 716 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:31.840 That's crazy. 717 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:35.920 Mayan numbers. Mayan numbers were used at a certain point 718 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.840 as a source code, like how many how many people 719 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:41.679 walking the earth right now know what the fuck Mayan 720 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:42.719 numbers look like. 721 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.159 It's maybe maybe they use this to help develop the 722 00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:50.199 advanced versions of AI very you know. 723 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.639 Hold on and say save all possibilities towards the end, 724 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:56.239 because like you just said, they brought up I know 725 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:59.840 it's there's no crazy ideas, right, And it says that 726 00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:02.679 the these people were recruited. They don't know that. They're 727 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:05.559 assuming that whoever was able to debunk this code or 728 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.079 whatever the case, was recruited. But then even if you 729 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:11.159 got the recruitment email, there's no guarantee that these people 730 00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:12.519 actually took the job offer. 731 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:18.920 Yeah, apparently they actually sent out the recruitment message congratulations. 732 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.400 Please create a new email address with a public, free 733 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:25.199 web based service once you've never used before, one you've 734 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:27.960 never used before, and entered it below. We recommend you 735 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.159 do this while still using Tora for anonymity. We will 736 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:34.119 email you a number within the next few days, in 737 00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:37.800 order in the order in which you arrived at the page. 738 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:41.000 Once you've received it, come back to this page and 739 00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:45.760 append a slash, and then the number you received to 740 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:48.840 this URL. For example, if you received and it gives 741 00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:54.639 a massive number, then you will go to http slash 742 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.199 and then it gives this whole website and its signed 743 00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:58.239 thirty three Toho one. 744 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:01.039 So that's the second round of people. 745 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:03.440 And again let's say they did it. Let's say the 746 00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:06.400 first hundred, the first five, the first thousand, who knows 747 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.719 went to that website, did all the things, and then 748 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:12.599 it was a job off from the CIA and they 749 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:14.800 were like, yeah, no, I don't want to work for 750 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:17.360 the CIA, and they dipped out. Maybe that's why they 751 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:18.519 had so many rounds of this. 752 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:19.960 I don't know. 753 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:21.800 I don't think it. I don't think it's that. I 754 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:23.480 think it's something something else. 755 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:26.880 It may have been QAnon, it may have been a 756 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:31.159 activist group, it might have been online mercenaries. Like who's 757 00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.199 to say one way or another, but yeah, we're gonna continue. 758 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:37.599 But it gets wilder the more you look into it, 759 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:40.320 and the amount of work that was associated with solving 760 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:44.119 these puzzles. So once you do the cipher and you 761 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.239 find the actual source code of what you're supposed to 762 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:50.440 be deciphering, here the answers contain in a poem sort of. 763 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.800 It's like the most frustrating cryptic crossword ever, with no conventions, 764 00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:57.719 no help as it to length, no way of checking 765 00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.039 whether you've got the right answer beyond seeing whether the 766 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.639 URL works. The answer, apparently is American author Ralph Waldo 767 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:09.760 Emerson's essay Self Reliance. Here's the community's explanation as to 768 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:15.440 why direct quote here poem references Transcendentalism right. Emerson is 769 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:20.679 a noted Transcendentalist author, he trusted himself refers to trust 770 00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.599 thine self, which is a theme throughout self reliance as 771 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:28.719 it or as is producing from with them. I do 772 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.559 not think I would have gotten that on my own, 773 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.440 says the author. So the community, there's only been one 774 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.880 trustworthy piece of information as to who lies behind Cicada. 775 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.360 It comes from an email leaked by one of the 776 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:44.079 quote unquote winners of the twenty twelve challenge. It's impossible 777 00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.679 to verify fully because the leaker was forced to remove 778 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.719 the signature to keep their identity secret, but others who 779 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.320 receive the same email indicated that the contents were legitimate. 780 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.119 This is a direct quote you'll have You have all 781 00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.239 wondered who we are. It reads in part, and so 782 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.000 we shall now tell you. We are an international group. 783 00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.519 We have no name, we have no symbol, we have 784 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.440 no membership roster, we do not have a public website, 785 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.039 and we do not advertise ourselves. We are a group 786 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.079 of individuals who have proven ourselves much like you have 787 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:16.639 by completing this recruitment contest, and we are drawn together 788 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:20.360 by common beliefs. A careful reading of the text used 789 00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.440 in this context would have revealed some of the of 790 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:27.360 these beliefs that tyranny and oppression of any kind must end, 791 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:31.599 that censorship is wrong, and that privacy is an inalienable right. 792 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:38.440 That doesn't give much. Yeah, however, it does sound very 793 00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:43.679 much like the anonymous hacker group, right, and other hacker 794 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.599 mercenary groups that have come forward. So this is the 795 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:50.280 Cicada puzzle that you're supposed to be able to put 796 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:56.360 into a source code and get that out. Okay, yeah again, 797 00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:59.760 I'm if I was smart enough and new tech enough 798 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.079 would be down. But boyl boy, I'm. 799 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:04.320 Trying to remember for life in me. It's a it's 800 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:10.199 called gosh, it's Atlas. It's Atlas something where they recruit 801 00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:13.880 and take all the smartest to uh, pretty much their. 802 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:15.599 Own utopia Atlas. 803 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:18.199 No, it's up North. 804 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:21.119 No, it's a movie. There's three of them. 805 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:25.639 They're great, but pretty much so what starts happening is 806 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:29.280 the elite, like the smartest of the smart start disappearing. 807 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:31.639 It's not Atlas, shrug. 808 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:31.960 Uh. 809 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:33.480 The book about the Railroad. 810 00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:36.400 Is yes, it is, yeah, yeah, And they take and 811 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.079 they take all the elites and they take them to 812 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.360 this like utopian place. And I always loved that series 813 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:43.719 because I thought it was super fascinating. 814 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.400 It sounds just like that, though the book is wild. 815 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:48.719 I haven't seen the series that was based off of it, 816 00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:52.039 but the book itself, it's like it's about the global 817 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:56.840 elites and oppression all these things, but it's like it's 818 00:41:56.920 --> 00:42:00.639 it's under the veil of railroad companies vie for power 819 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.199 and shit. But yeah, anyway, anyway, so moving on, it 820 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.719 says it seems unbelievable, but the number of other possibilities 821 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:11.679 is fast shrinking. At the end of the first Cicada, 822 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:13.679 it was possible that the whole thing was a game 823 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.639 or a publicity stunt. For the launch of Halo two, 824 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:20.960 Microsoft did something very similar, launching an alternate reality game 825 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.679 called I Love Bees. Some of you that were alive 826 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:25.679 and was popping off at that time might remember it, 827 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:28.880 but neither here nor there. But that game ran for 828 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.360 just three months before it ended with an invitation to 829 00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:34.639 play the game. Cicada is now on its third year, 830 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:38.599 and again, this was in twenty fourteen. Similarly, the security 831 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:41.400 services have been known to recruit through puzzles and games, 832 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:45.519 but when GCHQ invited people to solve a code to 833 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:48.239 get a job, they did so on a site plastered 834 00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:52.599 with their branding, and it begs beggars belief that they 835 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:56.000 or the NSA would seriously start a hunt for spies 836 00:42:56.039 --> 00:43:00.559 on four Chan. I hear that, But also so, if 837 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.079 you're looking for hackers who have a certain type of 838 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.280 belief system and understand the internet and mean culture to 839 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:11.880 that level, where else would you recruit from? That's just 840 00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:15.480 me But okay, okay. At the same time, Takeda must 841 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.840 be the work of more than one person with some 842 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:21.239 hefty resources. So far, physical artifacts from the group have 843 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:25.320 appeared in eight nations and eleven US states. It has 844 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:29.519 brought phone numbers, paid for server up time, and offered 845 00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.519 something to the winners, which has earned their silence. So 846 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:35.880 now last chance. I decided to have one last try 847 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.880 it solving a puzzle. To stave off temptation to cheat, 848 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:41.239 I would try to solve the most recent cipher, a 849 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:43.719 seventy character code reading I'm not going to read. It's 850 00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:45.639 a bunch of letters and numbers beside the point which 851 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.760 has been found by combining two previously discovered answers. Eavesdropping 852 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.119 on the chat channel, I see someone point out that 853 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.880 the Enigma code was formatted in the same way. They 854 00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:58.880 link to an Enigma simulator and I gave it a go. 855 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.920 The most common version of the Enigma has a key 856 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:04.800 of four letters, so there is a little less than 857 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:09.000 half a million combinations. Yeah, that's that works. After half 858 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:11.639 an hour of trying to every four letter phrase I 859 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:13.760 could think of, that's a CADO may have picked based 860 00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.480 on every previous clue. I gave up and go to bed. 861 00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:19.079 In the morning. When I check again, the puzzle has 862 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.360 been solved. Involved putting the letters into thirteen columns and 863 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.840 shuffling the order around until a legible sentence appeared. The 864 00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:29.480 enigma theory does not even warrant a mention. The answers 865 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:33.360 leads to another dark website with another image and more puzzles, 866 00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:36.400 which remains incomprehensible to me. When I leave the chat room, 867 00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.639 they are discussing a large chunk of data found between 868 00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:41.880 two images and yet another dark website. I gave it 869 00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:45.280 a go and do the G two crossword instead. So 870 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:49.199 this is the uh, this is a hold on this 871 00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:53.480 is an article on it, but anyway, so that's pretty 872 00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.679 much the end of the Guardian article. This guy tried 873 00:44:55.960 --> 00:44:59.519 in twenty fourteen and it was way beyond his comprehension, 874 00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:03.400 which for record, I get there. There's no shame behind 875 00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:06.000 most of us, and which that was the point. This 876 00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.960 was not something that they wanted millions of people shooting 877 00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:11.920 their shot in. They wanted you, if you were going 878 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.639 to try to make it into Cicada, they wanted to 879 00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.760 know that you knew what the hell you were doing 880 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:20.360 and able to think outside of the box, outside of 881 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:23.960 the web, into the real world, into ancient texts, into 882 00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:27.239 decoding the unknown. It was everything all at once. 883 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.400 I wonder if the links still work. I wonder if 884 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:33.880 this is still an active thing. It is not, well, 885 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:35.960 go back to it. It's not, it is not. 886 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:38.960 So all of what we have right now are basically 887 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.320 screenshots and things that Cicada is okay with the world 888 00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:45.320 knowing about the final level, which we're going to get 889 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:48.920 to the ruins and shit, that's it. Beyond that, it's 890 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:53.079 all speculation. Did these people receive that congratulations email? Was 891 00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:55.840 that all made up? How can we verify if it's 892 00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:59.559 real or not? Like it's it's that's it, And they 893 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.920 haven't re opened it again. So there were three rounds 894 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:04.159 and that was it. They have not done another round. 895 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:06.639 They did, and we talked about that. In twenty seventeen, 896 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:11.039 they released a statement. Ever since twenty seventeen, everything's been silent. 897 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:14.920 Hmm. It's strange. 898 00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.480 It's very strange. So now let's talk about the guy 899 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:22.559 who actually was the first one to solve the first 900 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:29.000 cicada in twenty twelve. This dude who uh wait, Oh no, no, no, 901 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.360 that's the next article. Excuse me, this is the guy. 902 00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:34.760 This is the first dude to solve the first Cicada cipher. 903 00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:36.159 But we're gonna get to him here in a moment. 904 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.039 But anyway, there's another article talking about it, and this 905 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:42.519 is actually from April of last year. So the unsolved 906 00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.960 mystery Cicada thirty three oh one cipher, let's get into 907 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.760 it here. The Internet has been home to countless cryptic puzzles, 908 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:53.559 but fewer have sparked as much intrigue and speculation as 909 00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:56.880 Cicada thirty three oh one. This mysterious organization emerged in 910 00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:59.480 twenty twelve, posting an elaborate puzzle that sent thousands of 911 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:03.960 solvers on a global scavenger hunt involving advanced cryptography staganography, 912 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:06.719 which is hidden messages within images and sounds, and real 913 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.719 World Treasure hunts. Over the years, multiple challenges appeared, leading 914 00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:13.440 participants through an intricate maze of hidden messages and complex ciphers. 915 00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.840 But was the ultimate goal of Cicada thirty three to 916 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.519 oh one? Who was behind it? And why did it 917 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:21.800 suddenly vanish? To this day, no definite answer exists, leaving 918 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:23.639 Cicada thirty three oh one is one of the most 919 00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:28.199 intriguing unsolved mysteries of the Internet. So let's get into 920 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:31.280 it here. We talked about this on January fourth, twenty twelve, 921 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:33.559 and anonymous black and white image appeared on four chance 922 00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:36.159 b message board with the following text, and we talked 923 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:40.519 about this. As participants developed deeper, they encountered a variety 924 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.960 of challenges requiring expertise in cryptography, staganography, classical literature, programming 925 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.159 in cybersecurity, and geographic location decoding. So when we talk 926 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.559 about the cryptography, a Caesar cipher is a version of this, 927 00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:57.199 which is probably the most base line that you can get. 928 00:47:58.280 --> 00:47:59.960 So I'll give you an example of this. So let's 929 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.440 say that I was to give you a letter, like 930 00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:05.519 I handwrote a letter to you, and it's not words. 931 00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:07.840 There's a letters that would form words but none of 932 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.599 them actually make sense. And I told you that there's 933 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.000 a Caesar cipher on this with a plus four variable, 934 00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.000 so A would become d, b would become e. Right, 935 00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:22.239 So you take whatever letter it is, add four and 936 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:23.559 when you get to the end of the alphabet you 937 00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:28.639 wrap around again. This is the very baseline of a code. 938 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:31.079 As far as that goes, right, it's very easy to 939 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:34.639 decipher as long as you have the key if it's 940 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:36.719 a plus four, a plus ten, whatever the case would be, 941 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:41.199 or a minus for that matter. But they got into 942 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.079 some source code shit that I I've never even heard 943 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.880 of some of these things, for instance, So we talked 944 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.840 about the Beel ciphers, right, that's just number code. The 945 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:59.000 Veneer Visioneer cipher is another one. It's it's Egypt, It's 946 00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:03.079 it may no goddamn sense to me. I watched videos, 947 00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:06.880 you know what. Let's see pulling up the images, so 948 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.599 you have to basically see it makes words in a 949 00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:14.559 diagonal way, a left right way or right to left way, 950 00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:18.599 and you have to use code like this to debunk it. Basically. 951 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:22.920 Huh, I'm not gonna lie to you. I probably would. 952 00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:24.199 I probably would do these. 953 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:25.679 I get it. 954 00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:29.719 I just I love I love doing all the codes 955 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:30.760 and all of that stuff. 956 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.119 So you see this one right here, this at the 957 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:37.119 bottom lx fo p v e f r n h R. 958 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.639 Then whenever you pullic it into a key stream, it 959 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:44.840 comes out as lemon lemonal, which the key is lemon, 960 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:47.760 and then you use that to decode this and it 961 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:49.360 actually says attack it dawn. 962 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.559 Okay, that'd be really fun. I'm not gonna lie it is. 963 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:56.039 It's really cool. But my point is, unless you knew 964 00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.840 that that was what was asked of your way, you 965 00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:00.639 would never you would be plug and this into some 966 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:03.679 sort of a data bank. You'd be trying to figure 967 00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:05.679 out what a coat like I just said, a couple 968 00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:07.360 of letters this way, a couple letters that way. It 969 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:10.519 would take you fucking forever. But these people knew what 970 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:12.440 time it was, and so they went hard with it. 971 00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:14.280 And like I said, as Caesar show. 972 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:15.480 How do people learn this stuff? 973 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.199 That's what I've always wondered, Where do they learn this 974 00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:19.000 stuff from? 975 00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.400 These are just people that get down on puzzles. And 976 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.360 I don't mean like a ten thousand piece puzzle like 977 00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:28.639 a jigsaw. No, No, this is this is real brain power. 978 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:33.119 Sudoku is like actually third three year old levels for 979 00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:35.320 these people. Oh yeah, like it's it's. 980 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.480 I do like that, but you know, I'm not smart 981 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:39.360 enough for this for sure, but she is. 982 00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:42.760 So it is so cool though really to think of 983 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.199 like how these things were created. But how would you 984 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:48.320 even find this stuff out? As what I'm curious about? 985 00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:50.840 But I mean even with my friend, like he just 986 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.960 knew shit, right, I was like, don't you see the patterns? 987 00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:57.039 Is what he would always say, Well, there's patterns to 988 00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:59.360 it all. I don't know what you're talking about, but 989 00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:00.880 I'm glad that you see them. 990 00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.239 But that's my point. They were looking for people who 991 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.800 their brain operates on this wavelength. This was not for 992 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.840 your average Joe who's punching his nine to five o 993 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:13.480 clock and just comes home and watches the football game 994 00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:16.440 and drinks a six pack every day. That person is 995 00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:20.239 not even in this conversation, right. This was for people 996 00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:26.079 whose brains operate on borderline weaponized autism, which is fine, yeah, 997 00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:29.320 but yeah, so anyway, the steganography, like I said, is 998 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:32.119 hidden messages within images and sounds like whenever you would 999 00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:33.840 take that image and you play with the font and 1000 00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:35.239 you play with the color a little bit and it 1001 00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:39.639 shows the cicada. That's baseline. Later on they discovered that 1002 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:42.880 you had to find three and I'm sure it's gonna 1003 00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:44.639 be brought up here in a minute. There was like 1004 00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:47.800 three numbers that you would need off of this image. 1005 00:51:48.159 --> 00:51:51.159 Thirty three zho one was one of them, and that 1006 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:52.639 was it, and it was the black and white image. 1007 00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:54.800 Where's the other numbers? Is it in the lettering? Is 1008 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.519 it in the cicada itself? What's up? No, it was 1009 00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:01.320 in the pixels for this way and this way. It 1010 00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:04.360 was like five thirteen and five nineteen pixels that were 1011 00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:06.559 both prime numbers, and so is thirty three oh one. 1012 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:09.960 These prime numbers plugged into their algorithm and their shit 1013 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:12.320 gave you an answer that would lead to another question, 1014 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.760 another puzzle, another clue. It's like, what the hell? 1015 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:18.679 So you sure aliens didn't create this, like they weren't 1016 00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:23.280 like looking for the smartest maybe, right, That's a lot 1017 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:23.800 of work. 1018 00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:26.320 That is not even the craziest thing that has been 1019 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:28.760 proposed as far as what this is? Alien? Fuck? Why not? 1020 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.519 Man, I'm truly down to learn more about this. I'm 1021 00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:35.360 very intrigued. My brain's just like. 1022 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:38.079 Ooh, let's get more into it here, the puzzle is 1023 00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:41.440 not confined to the digital world. As solvers progressed, Cicada 1024 00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:44.440 thirty three oh one left physical clues in locations worldwide, 1025 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:49.719 including the United States, Spain, Port, Poland, South Korea and Australia. 1026 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.079 QR codes were posted its specific coordinates, sending participants further 1027 00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:55.440 down the rabbit hole. So let's talk about the evolution 1028 00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:58.400 of this. From twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, Cicada thirty 1029 00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.400 three oh one released three major puzzle events in January 1030 00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:04.719 of twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, and twenty fourteen. Every year 1031 00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.679 the challenges became more advanced, drawing in thousands of solvers 1032 00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:10.920 around the world. I would argue probably hundreds, but all right. 1033 00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:14.039 In the twenty twelve puzzle right, The first puzzle began 1034 00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:16.920 with the now famous image posted on four CHAM. It 1035 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:20.559 guided solvers through digital clues, encryption techniques, and even real 1036 00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.360 world locations. Those who made it to the end reportedly 1037 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:26.039 received an email from Cicada confirming that they had reached 1038 00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:29.880 the final stage. What happened after that remains unknown, as 1039 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:33.360 those selected were likely instructed to remain silent, which that 1040 00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:37.360 checks out right. The twenty thirteen puzzle. A year latest, 1041 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:39.960 Akida launched a new puzzle with a similar format, but 1042 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:43.880 this time it featured more complex cryptographic tasks. It required 1043 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:48.000 deeper knowledge of mathematics, programming, and historical references. Like the 1044 00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:51.199 first puzzle, it ended quietly with no public announcement or 1045 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:55.400 verified outcome. Then the twenty fourteen puzzle. The third puzzle, 1046 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.840 introduced something new, the Liber Primus, a book written entirely 1047 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:04.519 runic characters. Some pages have been decoded, revealing philosophical messages 1048 00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:08.920 in riddles, but large portions remain unsolved. Many people believe 1049 00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.920 that Liber Primus holds the final key to understanding Cicada 1050 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:15.320 thirty three to OHO one's true purpose. After twenty fourteen, 1051 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:19.280 no new verified puzzles were released by Cicada, apart from 1052 00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:23.039 a disputed message in twenty sixteen warning of impostors. The 1053 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:27.320 group went silent, leaving the mystery open and unfinished. So 1054 00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:31.519 the thirty three toh one cipher puzzles UH puzzles were 1055 00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.840 incredibly complex, drawing on cryptography, literature, and advanced problem solving techniques. 1056 00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:39.519 Each step required deep knowledge of encryption, coding, and historical text. 1057 00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:42.840 Here's the breakdown of some of the key puzzle elements, 1058 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:47.599 so steganography hidden messages in images. One of the earliest 1059 00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:51.639 puzzles used steganography, the practice of concealing information within images. 1060 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.039 The first clue a black and white image posted on 1061 00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:59.000 four Chan containing contained text hidden in its code. Solvers 1062 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:03.079 used steganoography tools like outguests, a universal free software that 1063 00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:07.280 conceals information in the redundant bits of data sources such 1064 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.480 as images, to extract a message leading to a cryptic URL. 1065 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:14.639 This technique appears repeatedly throughout the puzzle series, often hidden 1066 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:19.719 or hiding encoded instructions within seemingly ordinary images. So you 1067 00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:24.079 needed the out guests to even begin to solve this shit. 1068 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.079 And so that's crazy. 1069 00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:30.119 So I looked up if there was any missing people 1070 00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:35.199 during twenty fourteen that were of like genius level. Several 1071 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:39.880 notable figures various fields went reported or unaccounted for during 1072 00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:45.320 that year. Also, there were artists and intellectuals of a 1073 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:49.400 high caliber that went missing under mysterious circumstances, sparking public 1074 00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:51.320 interest during twenty fourteen. 1075 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.079 But that's the other thing. If it was an artist, 1076 00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:56.559 they would have to have this level of know how, 1077 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:58.719 and by artists, I understand we're not talking about just paint, 1078 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.840 not just music, not just digital art, all the above. 1079 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:05.239 I feel like most if you were saying like genius 1080 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:09.440 level people, okay, that could be. But even like I'm 1081 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:11.760 throwing this name out, I know people feel some type 1082 00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:15.360 way about him. Neil deGrasse Tyson couldn't figure this shit out. 1083 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.360 So it's like because he's a genius of a different 1084 00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:20.400 type of breed, of a different category, if you know 1085 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:20.840 what I'm saying. 1086 00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:25.679 Yeah, well, I mean maybe maybe they Actually you never 1087 00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:27.679 know what people like to do in their hobby time, 1088 00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:31.119 and artists see a lot of different types of artists, 1089 00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:33.440 see different flows and patterns of things. 1090 00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:35.440 Maybe they knew. I don't know. 1091 00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:38.800 I just looked up though, like genius people and intellectual people, 1092 00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:42.159 and a good number of them went missing in twenty fourteen. 1093 00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:45.480 So from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, just to record, 1094 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:45.719 I did. 1095 00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:48.199 Yeah, but I just looked up in twenty fourteen and 1096 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:50.920 when the last one was done, because if they didn't 1097 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.119 go missing, they had to finish all three puzzles. So 1098 00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.679 if they finished the third puzzle and they potentially went missing, yeah, now. 1099 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:03.440 We're gonna to get into the shit that makes regular 1100 00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:08.360 people's brains melts a little bit myself included cryptographic challenges. 1101 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:12.840 Cryptographic challenges. The puzzles incorporated multiple encryption methods requiring advanced 1102 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:17.280 cry cryptographic knowledge Jesus Christ. Some of the key techniques 1103 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.440 include Caesar ciphers, which we just talked about a moment ago, right, 1104 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:23.480 a basic form of encryption where each letter is shifted 1105 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:25.920 a fixed number of places in the alphabet. For example, 1106 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:27.960 A might become D with a shift of three. I 1107 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.599 said four earlier. That'd be a three. Excuse me. Many 1108 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.559 solvers used online Caesar cipher decoders to help crack these codes. 1109 00:57:35.400 --> 00:57:40.119 Now there's RSA and PGP encryption. Both are types of 1110 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:45.440 public key cryptography used to encrypt and decrypt messages securely. 1111 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.800 RSA is widely used encryption algorithm, while PGP, which stands 1112 00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:52.960 for pretty Good Privacy, allows people to send encrypted messages 1113 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:56.199 that only the intended recipient can read. Their use in 1114 00:57:56.239 --> 00:58:01.199 the puzzle suggests a strong focus on privacy and secure communication. Okay. 1115 00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:07.239 Modular arithmetic a math concept used in many encryption systems 1116 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:11.079 where numbers wrap around after reaching a certain value. It 1117 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:15.320 helps solvers decode hidden patterns and solve numerical clues. It 1118 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.079 sounds easy until you see one of them and you're like, okay, 1119 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:21.280 what do you mean? It wraps around, Like basically, you're 1120 00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:24.800 solving for this equation, and every time a seven is 1121 00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:28.239 written out, you start over as far as the linear 1122 00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:32.280 code is concerned, and you continue working the same math problem, 1123 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:37.199 but now everything has new denominations behind it. And then 1124 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:40.880 when it hits a seven again, right, then there's prime 1125 00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:45.159 prime number sequences. Prime numbers numbers only divisible by one 1126 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:48.480 in themselves appeared repeatedly in the puzzles. They were often 1127 00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.719 used to hide messages or form the backbone of certain clues. 1128 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:55.119 Then we get to hashes and Base four encode or 1129 00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:58.679 Base sixty four encoding. Many clues were encoded in Base 1130 00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:02.280 sixty four, a method of encoding data into text. Others 1131 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:06.239 use cryptographic hashes, which are unique strings created to or 1132 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:10.079 from input data. May includes harder to reverse engineer without 1133 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:12.239 the right key. And that was the bitch of it. 1134 00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:16.599 You didn't know if any let's say that this math 1135 00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:20.679 thing took up like three whole pages. Let's hypothetically you're 1136 00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:23.679 right now with pen and paper. You wouldn't know if 1137 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:25.920 it was wrong until the very end when you tried 1138 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:28.480 to go to a certain url and it wasn't there then, 1139 00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:31.119 and you wouldn't know at what point you fucked up 1140 00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:33.400 your math. You would have to go back to the beginning, 1141 00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:37.119 because it's like a one degree difference here might be 1142 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:40.519 a four hundred degree difference in an hour. So you 1143 00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:44.920 you actually don't know where you're at. So only the 1144 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:46.239 people that were like of. 1145 00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:48.440 That mind, oh, to the people you have provo to 1146 00:59:48.599 --> 00:59:52.920 every person that solved this, like real shit, that's pretty badass. 1147 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:54.480 It is. And then on top of all of this, 1148 00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:57.920 on top of being able to decode poems, on top 1149 00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:01.320 of being able to do mathmath, encryptions, and all of 1150 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:03.880 these things, you also had to have a classical and 1151 01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.199 esoteric literature background. A distinct feature of Cicada thirty three 1152 01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:10.800 zero one's puzzles was the heavy use of literature, philosophy, 1153 01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:15.679 and historical references. Clues frequently included passages from William Blake's poetry, 1154 01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:19.159 particularly The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which deals with 1155 01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:23.119 duality and enlightenment. Alistair Crowley's The Book of Law, a 1156 01:00:23.159 --> 01:00:27.079 cryptic occult text that emphasizes individual will and secret knowledge. 1157 01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:31.760 The Voynage manuscript and undecipherable medieval codex that appears to 1158 01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:35.239 inspire Cicada's thirty three zero one's use of obscure symbols. Yes, 1159 01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:38.679 still to this day that hasn't been decoded, and Liber Primus, 1160 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:42.280 the most infamous texts of the Cicada mystery. Written entirely 1161 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:47.039 in ruins, it remains largely unsolved, with many pages still untranslated. 1162 01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:49.840 Some theorists believe the key to unlock Cicada thirty three 1163 01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.639 oz one's ultimate goal lies in decoding this text, and 1164 01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:56.679 still like even aside from Cicada thirty three oh one, 1165 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:01.119 just linguists have not been able to decode every page 1166 01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:04.440 of Premium or Liber Primus, which stands for like first. 1167 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:06.039 Book that's wild. 1168 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:10.840 Yeah, Like, I mean, it's interesting that they added in 1169 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:15.280 specific things that are a cult like that have you know, 1170 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:18.960 Heaven and Hell and different things like this, Like sh 1171 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.719 I mean, it just sounds it sounds weird. It sounds 1172 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.800 like the elite of the elite, we're looking for maybe 1173 01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:30.000 new fresh blood to add into their their group or something. 1174 01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:32.719 I think that you might be onto something here. It 1175 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:35.679 may not be when we think of elites. Take take 1176 01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:37.360 Rothschild out take Gates. 1177 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.039 No, I'll take talking about like above them. I'm talking 1178 01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:41.239 about the real ones. 1179 01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:43.760 Yes, the actual elites that we've never like. If you 1180 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.039 were to hear this name, you would not know who 1181 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:49.760 this person is. That level of elite. I think was 1182 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.480 looking for more henchmen or something close to that. 1183 01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:56.079 You think henchman or do you think they were used. 1184 01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:59.039 To I say henchman, I could I could say employees, 1185 01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:02.039 I could say lackey, I could say to whatever level. 1186 01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:04.760 I don't think they were trying to envelop people into 1187 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:06.840 the fold. I think they were trying to find more 1188 01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.239 worker bees that were able to do things to this level. 1189 01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:13.480 But again, we may have so many more opinions come 1190 01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:14.599 out as we keep reading. 1191 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:17.639 Honestly, that's crazy, though, what. 1192 01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:21.320 I mean because a lot of the linguists, though they've 1193 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.199 been working a long time on some of these things, 1194 01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:27.719 and I'm surprised that they haven't had one find way 1195 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:28.960 to decipher stuff. 1196 01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:32.360 I forget what it is about, uh liber primus that 1197 01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:36.239 makes it so hard to break down. Because rooms have 1198 01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:39.639 been decoded, right, we understand the letters and the alphabet 1199 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:42.400 and the type of language that was being used. I'm 1200 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:45.199 not sure if it's because some of them don't make sense, 1201 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:48.760 or because there is a code using rooms that is 1202 01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:50.719 the Liber Primus, and so like you have to know 1203 01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:54.519 what code each individual page is using to decipher it. 1204 01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:56.440 Some of the pages have been deciphered, and we're going 1205 01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:58.079 to talk about those more in depth here in a bit. 1206 01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:01.480 Some of them are from what we can tell, it's 1207 01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:05.360 not even gibberish. There's obviously some sort of a code 1208 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:08.639 being used. We have not cracked it yet, and maybe 1209 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.239 with the use of AI, maybe someone out there will 1210 01:03:11.239 --> 01:03:14.679 be able to. But as of time recording, most of 1211 01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:17.039 Liber Primus is still undecoded. 1212 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:20.519 I'm surprised that supercomputers haven't been able. 1213 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.000 To do it, but I mean, we only have how 1214 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.480 many supercomputers on Earth, and how many of them are 1215 01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:26.679 going to be used for something like this as opposed 1216 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:30.039 to some other thing that the developer of the computer wants. 1217 01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:32.400 I see what you're saying. And like I said, maybe 1218 01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:34.800 in the next year or two or five, as they 1219 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:38.679 keep developing more quantum computers and they start developing more AI, 1220 01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:41.760 I'm thinking that more of these things might be decoded. 1221 01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:45.239 But Cicada's shut down. They got the guys that they needed. 1222 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:47.719 So it's not like any old person with some advanced 1223 01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:49.760 AI on their laptop is going to be able to 1224 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.760 become a member of Cicada. They wanted this to happen 1225 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.639 before this, and maybe that might have been a part 1226 01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:58.639 of the problem, because AI that we know today started 1227 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:02.119 in what was it twenty ee We talked about this 1228 01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:04.960 a couple episodes ago, I forget, but they might have 1229 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:06.679 seen the writing on the walls and they knew they 1230 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:09.639 had to find some of their kind before it got 1231 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:10.960 to where everybody could do it. 1232 01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:12.920 Oh that's wild. 1233 01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.760 So as of twenty twenty five, only two pages out 1234 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:19.800 of the seventy six have been have been solved, right, 1235 01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:24.320 And it's interesting most people say that it shouldn't be 1236 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.280 solved because of what they have solved from it. It's, 1237 01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:29.880 you know, with the great with truth comes great power 1238 01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:30.880 and great responsibility. 1239 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:31.599 Don't abuse it. 1240 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:34.639 And that doesn't sound ominous. 1241 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.440 Yeah, that doesn't sound like Maybe they shouldn't fuck with 1242 01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:38.239 this book at all. 1243 01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:39.159 Kind of a vibe. 1244 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:43.639 I don't know, But whoever wrote it definitely wrote it 1245 01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:47.039 with some real intent. And that's the other thing too. 1246 01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:50.159 Perhaps the Cicada thirty three to OHO one people did 1247 01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:53.199 decode it and used it to get to the end goal, 1248 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:56.119 and they didn't release what they found because at that 1249 01:04:56.199 --> 01:05:00.840 point they it was a complete secrecy situation. So perhaps 1250 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.199 they were able to decode it and they just they 1251 01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:05.719 had never posted it. I don't know. 1252 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:08.639 Anyway, this is that's crazy. 1253 01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:12.119 So moving on here the real world scavenger hunt. One 1254 01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:14.920 of the most astonishing aspects of Cicada thirty three to 1255 01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:18.159 oh one was its extension into the physical world. At 1256 01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:21.239 certain points in the puzzle, solvers received GPS coordinates leading 1257 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:24.840 them to real world locations. These sites contained QR codes, 1258 01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:28.559 paper posters, and cryptic messages, each directing participants to the 1259 01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:31.679 next phase of the challenge. Confirmed locations include and for 1260 01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:34.239 the record, on screen right now is one of these things. 1261 01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:37.599 It's on a light pole in one of these places. 1262 01:05:37.599 --> 01:05:43.639 But like that might be Paris, Warsaw, Poland. Excuse me, Okay, 1263 01:05:44.199 --> 01:05:47.239 it looked European, but yeah, yeah, So some of the 1264 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:50.440 more known places Seattle, Washington, a poster with a QR 1265 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:53.599 code was taped to a lamp post Warsaw, Poland. A 1266 01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:55.719 similar clue was found on a street sign, which we 1267 01:05:55.800 --> 01:05:58.800 just had on screen. Soul, South Korea. A message was 1268 01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:02.440 discovered attached to a telephone pole Sydney, Australia. Another set 1269 01:06:02.480 --> 01:06:04.599 of coordinates led to a hidden message in the city. 1270 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:07.320 And if you look at these things, this is just paper, 1271 01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:10.559 like one good rainstorm, this is gone. So time was 1272 01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:12.199 of the essence like if you're going to be about 1273 01:06:12.199 --> 01:06:14.000 this life, you better get on a plane. You didn't. 1274 01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:17.800 Now it was the barrier for entry was going up 1275 01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:20.320 a level because it wasn't just are you smart enough? 1276 01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:23.480 Do you have the resources enough to drive or get 1277 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:25.840 in a plane to go to one of these GPS locations. 1278 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:29.039 There was fourteen of them around the world. And if you, 1279 01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:32.320 for instance, were in a country that wouldn't let you leave, 1280 01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.360 then that sucks. You can't be a part of it. 1281 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:39.199 Or if you were you know, you know it didn't 1282 01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:41.840 have the finances. Maybe you were super smart, but you 1283 01:06:41.880 --> 01:06:44.639 were living under the poverty line and you couldn't afford 1284 01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:48.280 to rent a car or fly to a certain location. Well, okay, 1285 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:51.159 once again, you're you sorry. 1286 01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:53.599 So well, it looked like that they were allowed to 1287 01:06:53.679 --> 01:06:57.239 share images with each other for this specific thing is 1288 01:06:57.320 --> 01:06:59.400 how they they were able. 1289 01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:03.480 To do Maybe yes, maybe no, I mean like even 1290 01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:06.960 if this post if this picture was posted. How do 1291 01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:09.119 we know that at that point? Like we remember, we 1292 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.440 said that the websites would shut down after so many 1293 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:12.400 visitors would hit them. 1294 01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.679 Yeah, it said the first ones that solve the set 1295 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.800 The second one I guess was able to get into 1296 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:22.000 the website, and then from there they didn't want to 1297 01:07:22.039 --> 01:07:22.800 take anybody else. 1298 01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:25.360 And that right, So even if you were to go 1299 01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:28.480 to what that QR code would tell you to, you know, 1300 01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:30.440 the website, it would lead to or whatever the case, 1301 01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.760 after so many people, that's it. So even if you 1302 01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:35.639 saw this image and you weren't able to go and 1303 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:38.320 they shared it, who's to say the URL was still 1304 01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:40.519 active by the time you finally tried to go there. 1305 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:43.760 Whoever set this up was smart enough to know how 1306 01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:47.000 to put fail safees. And I'll give you that. So 1307 01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:49.199 to get you to get you a sense of the 1308 01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:52.199 mystery yourself, try to try this. Look up the coordinates 1309 01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:56.719 on Google Maps thirty four degrees forty one forty four 1310 01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:59.679 north by seventy six degrees forty one twenty one or 1311 01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:03.239 twenty west. Where do they lead? Imagine finding a hidden 1312 01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:06.880 message or clue there? I don't know what those coordinates 1313 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:09.880 are actually know what let's just I'm just copy and 1314 01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:11.960 paste that real quick. Good cult members, We're gonna go there. 1315 01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:15.000 We are going to go onto Google Maps, and we 1316 01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:19.199 are going to do that right now, Google Maps up, up, up, 1317 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:22.880 and let's type that in and let's just see what 1318 01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:28.560 happens here and paced. So this was just a random 1319 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:31.800 test run here, right. But if they were to tell 1320 01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:35.159 you to go there and try to find some sort 1321 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:38.840 of a thing on a street lamp or whatever, You're 1322 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:41.399 going to a beach to find some sort of a 1323 01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:44.039 QR code or something. And so when they give you 1324 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:47.600 these coordinates, it's very difficult and you have to get there, 1325 01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:49.920 you have to find whatever clue you're trying to find, 1326 01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:52.439 plug it in, get back to your home computer that 1327 01:08:52.520 --> 01:08:54.680 has a tour browser, and all these things. So like 1328 01:08:55.319 --> 01:08:58.520 time was of the essence, and if you couldn't do it, 1329 01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:02.640 you couldn't do it. So these physical clues reinforced the 1330 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:04.720 idea that Cicada thirty three oh one was more than 1331 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:09.000 just an Internet based challenge. It had real world implications. However, 1332 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:12.920 the messages at these locations vanished quickly, building more theories 1333 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:15.840 that only a select few ment were meant to find them. 1334 01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:19.600 So now we get into some of the theories about Cicada. So, 1335 01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:24.319 despite years of investigation and speculation, no one knows for 1336 01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:28.039 sure who created Cicada thirty three ye old one or why. However, 1337 01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:31.279 several theories have emerged, based on the nature of the puzzles, 1338 01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:34.039 the skills required to solve them, and the secrecy surrounding 1339 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:38.119 the purpose intelligence agency recruitment. That's an option. 1340 01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:40.640 I mean, it's an option. 1341 01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:41.800 It's a viable one. 1342 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:42.920 I don't think it's that. 1343 01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:46.359 I don't think so either, But and there's let's get 1344 01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:48.159 into it. So one of the most widely believed theories 1345 01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:50.199 is that Cicada thirty three oh one was a covert 1346 01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:54.479 recruitment campaign by a government intelligence agency such as the CIA, 1347 01:09:54.680 --> 01:10:01.000 NSA MI six. Whatever. The puzzles attested highly advanced cryptographies, gegonography, coding, 1348 01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:06.039 and reasoning skills, exactly the kind of expertise intelligence agencies seek. 1349 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:08.840 These groups have been known to use creative means to 1350 01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:11.760 identify and recruit top talent, so the idea of a 1351 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:15.279 global puzzle as a recruitment tool isn't far fetched. Still, 1352 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:19.880 no agency has ever claimed involvement, and I feel like 1353 01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:20.399 they would have. 1354 01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:24.520 I just don't believe that that's the true thing. When 1355 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.159 we get down to what I think, we'll see what 1356 01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:28.000 everyone else thinks. 1357 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.079 But I think that my theory is different. 1358 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:34.920 So okay. So now there's the private cybersecurity collective, which 1359 01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:38.920 again more of the lines of an online mercenary group 1360 01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:42.159 or something like that, which is a viable option. Another 1361 01:10:42.199 --> 01:10:43.960 theory is that CCTA thirty three to oh one was 1362 01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:48.520 created by a decentralized group of ethical hackers or cybersecurity 1363 01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:52.920 professionals looking to quietly recruit like minded individuals. These collectives 1364 01:10:52.960 --> 01:10:57.479 often value privacy, intellect, and anonymity, traits deeply embedded into 1365 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.720 the cicada's puzzles. The idea here is that puzzles were 1366 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.399 used to filter out only the most persistent and skilled candidates, 1367 01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:07.800 who were then invited to join a secret cybersecurity network. 1368 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:12.880 Now that has the way more credence behind that one 1369 01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:15.960 than the three letter agency thing. However, I don't I 1370 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:18.399 could see a possibility. I don't believe that that's the 1371 01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:22.319 actual reasoning behind it, although we could be wrong. Moving 1372 01:11:22.359 --> 01:11:27.760 on cybersecurity awareness campaign, I don't believe it, but let's continue. 1373 01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:29.800 Some believes c CADA thirty three to oh one had 1374 01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:32.520 no recruitment goal at all, but was instead meant to 1375 01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:36.119 raise public awareness about online privacy, encryption, and the importance 1376 01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:39.560 of protecting digital freedoms. The heavy use of cryptographic tools 1377 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.640 and open source techniques, along with the inclusion of philosophical 1378 01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:46.079 messages about liberty and free thought, support this idea. In 1379 01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:48.199 this case, the puzzles would have been a kind of 1380 01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:53.680 digital activism or educational project. This is a lot of work. 1381 01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:58.479 This is a lot of technical know how, physical locations, 1382 01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:02.000 sharing things online, going to the dark web. For it 1383 01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:09.479 to be a cybersecurity awareness campaign. 1384 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:09.199 I no, I don't believe that at all. I think 1385 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:11.840 that one's like the least likely, the least likely. 1386 01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:14.359 I think this was more there's more probability of this 1387 01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:17.239 being an NSA recruiting tool than to say we just 1388 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:19.760 wanted people to be aware of their cybersecurity. 1389 01:12:21.239 --> 01:12:21.560 Yeah. 1390 01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:24.840 Sorry, I mean it's like more likely that NASA US 1391 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:26.479 recruiting people than this. 1392 01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:29.960 Absolutely So the next option is that this was all 1393 01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:34.159 an alternate reality game. Again, I see where they're going. 1394 01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:36.880 I have my own opinions on this. At first glanced 1395 01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:40.800 Cicada thirty three oh one resembles an extremely complex alternate 1396 01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:44.119 reality game, a genre of interactive storytelling that uses real 1397 01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:47.840 world elements and online clues. However, there are key differences. 1398 01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:51.880 Most ARGs are linked to a company, product or entertainment 1399 01:12:51.880 --> 01:12:55.399 project and eventually reveal their purpose. So Kada never promoted 1400 01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:59.520 anything and offered no known reward or conclusion. Still, some 1401 01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:03.880 believe it was have been purely artistic or intellectual challenges 1402 01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:07.119 designed for entertainment or a social experiment. 1403 01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:10.520 I don't believe that at all, not even because well, 1404 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:13.079 I can understand if it was like a Ready Player 1405 01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:16.000 one situation where like the owner was such an brilliant 1406 01:13:16.039 --> 01:13:18.560 person and that he's leaving the golden egg of his 1407 01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:21.560 entire life's work to somebody to carry on and they 1408 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:23.319 have to be like of true merit. 1409 01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:27.920 But I think that when you read the stuff that 1410 01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:30.359 they said, it's all. 1411 01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:34.319 About truth, and it's all about not trusting the governments, 1412 01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:37.319 not working for the governments, not working for anybody. That 1413 01:13:37.359 --> 01:13:41.800 these are specialized people that believe in wanting the truth. 1414 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:44.640 And I don't think that is the situation when it 1415 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:45.199 comes to this. 1416 01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:50.359 Same for entertainment. And granted, like I'm sure the people 1417 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:52.840 that were I'm sure the people that were solving the puzzles, 1418 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:54.520 got a good kick out of it, and it was 1419 01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:56.920 fun as hell. Like I see it, I get that 1420 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:01.199 this is way too intricate for the for the lulls, 1421 01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:05.319 there's no way, but all right, that's a theory. The 1422 01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:08.720 next one, which I think is probably the more probable 1423 01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:13.560 a dark web organization. A more ominous theory, suggests that 1424 01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:16.479 Cicada thirty three oh one was connected to a secretive 1425 01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:19.800 organization operating on the dark web. According to this theory, 1426 01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:22.439 the puzzles were used to vet individuals for access to 1427 01:14:22.520 --> 01:14:26.319 hidden networks or illicit operations. While there's no public evidence 1428 01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:29.520 linking Cicada to any criminal or extremist activity, the group's 1429 01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:32.920 total anonymity and sudden disappearance after twenty fourteen leave no 1430 01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:36.399 leave room for this possibility. I think that this is close. 1431 01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:39.239 I don't think that this was uh they're trying to 1432 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:42.279 find a way to hack the system and steal cryptocurrency, right, 1433 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:45.119 Although I have also seen that theory that some believe 1434 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:47.760 that Cicada thirty three to oh one was just a 1435 01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:51.359 way to get the world's best bitcoin minors, And it's like, 1436 01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:54.600 I don't believe that that's the case. Honestly, I could 1437 01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:58.159 see why they would make that conclusion, but there's no 1438 01:14:58.199 --> 01:14:59.960 way I what's. 1439 01:14:59.800 --> 01:15:02.239 Your theory, Well, what's your actual theory when it comes 1440 01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:04.399 to this, like, what do you believe as the truth? 1441 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:06.479 We have a long way to go as far as 1442 01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:11.439 the episode is concerned, but as of this moment, I'm 1443 01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:15.439 leaning more towards this was I believe this was recruitment. 1444 01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:20.239 I absolutely do. Now for whom and for what purpose, 1445 01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:24.840 that's it's open to speculation. I believe that it was 1446 01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:29.119 something outside of any kind of government, but I also 1447 01:15:29.159 --> 01:15:34.800 believe that it was possibly a Hactavism group. And I 1448 01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:37.520 don't mean QAnon, although there are people that make the 1449 01:15:37.520 --> 01:15:40.880 comparison that this is where QAnon and Anonymous got their people. 1450 01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:43.800 But there's so many documentaries about Anonymous, and there are 1451 01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:46.439 so many people that are known affiliates of Anonymous that 1452 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:48.199 have left the group that have come forward to talk 1453 01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:50.560 about their experiences. None of it had to do with 1454 01:15:50.600 --> 01:15:54.199 Cicada thirty three oh one, so I don't think that's 1455 01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.560 necessarily it either. I don't believe that this has anything 1456 01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:00.880 to do with some sort of uh making the world 1457 01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:04.560 a better place thing, although I could see possibly, but 1458 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:07.439 it's not like Cicada thirty three oh one's actually doing 1459 01:16:07.479 --> 01:16:10.359 the work to fight child trafficking. Like, No, I don't 1460 01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:14.239 believe that at all either. I believe that this was 1461 01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:19.199 to how could I put this to the same level 1462 01:16:19.199 --> 01:16:21.439 that you said of the global elites that are actually 1463 01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:23.560 running the world that we would never know if we 1464 01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:26.199 even if we met them or heard their name. I 1465 01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:28.920 think that this was to do something to that level 1466 01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:33.880 of dark web activism, something that we would never know. 1467 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:38.920 It's like a James Bond right, whenever he does something 1468 01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:41.079 to save the world and no one ever knows about it, 1469 01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:44.720 but he was doing all this wild shit. I think 1470 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:47.159 it's like that this group might be out there trying 1471 01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:49.560 to save the world from god knows what, but the 1472 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:52.279 only reason that they are doing it is and being 1473 01:16:52.319 --> 01:16:55.039 so successful at it, is because we don't know about it. 1474 01:16:56.640 --> 01:16:58.880 I don't know what's your thoughts as of this moment. 1475 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:04.319 Well, I don't. Are we going to read about the premius? 1476 01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:06.319 Oh yeah, okay, Well. 1477 01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:07.920 Then I'm going to hold off because I already have 1478 01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:11.880 my conclusion of what I think this is. But already 1479 01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.640 it yes, because I was I read the text of 1480 01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:16.399 what it actually states and so. 1481 01:17:17.079 --> 01:17:18.520 I have a I have. 1482 01:17:18.439 --> 01:17:24.119 A theory that's not of not of this world. So 1483 01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:27.359 I'm going to hold off until we read that. But 1484 01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:31.560 it's an interesting I mean, I could see logically if 1485 01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:36.159 we weren't going to speculate into the other realms, if 1486 01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:39.079 it was just human based, I would see it being 1487 01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:42.760 more along the elites. But I guess my problem with that. 1488 01:17:42.720 --> 01:17:46.319 Theory is is the they already own everything. 1489 01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:51.960 They already have everything, So them needing you know, intelligent. 1490 01:17:51.399 --> 01:17:55.079 People for a dark web situation or whatever. 1491 01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:57.239 Why would they need that when they pretty much created 1492 01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:00.520 the system, so they own and operate everything. You wouldn't 1493 01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:04.840 need anybody intelligent for that, unless it's more or less 1494 01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:09.840 a breeding stock or they're using them to create something else. 1495 01:18:09.640 --> 01:18:11.119 That's in stock. 1496 01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:13.199 I didn't even consider that option. 1497 01:18:14.119 --> 01:18:16.600 Yeah, that's what, yeah, I mean, if I was, if 1498 01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:18.800 I was to think of something they where they want 1499 01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:22.600 to be able to boost their numbers or add in 1500 01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:25.760 fresh blood because they've done too many generations of this 1501 01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:30.000 or whatever, you know, because eventually our genes break down. 1502 01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:33.640 Why not take the best of the best, at least 1503 01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:37.520 in the sense of intellectual wise and take them and 1504 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:40.239 use them as breeding stock. That makes more sense to 1505 01:18:40.279 --> 01:18:43.760 me if you're trying to create something, or you know, 1506 01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.239 see what makes the brain different from other people? How 1507 01:18:47.279 --> 01:18:51.560 are these people more intelligent than the normal people? Do 1508 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:56.560 tests on them, use whatever, use their blood, use actual 1509 01:18:56.840 --> 01:19:01.880 like you know, the celluar makeup pretty much, or I 1510 01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:04.920 can see them using them in the sense of may 1511 01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:08.760 there's like a I don't know, maybe you're training them 1512 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:12.840 for something. Maybe you're utilizing them for something, creating a 1513 01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:15.960 super weapon, or using them to be able to communicate 1514 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:19.600 with somebody else, those along those lines. 1515 01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:20.680 I feel like the dark web. 1516 01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:24.279 I feel like they already control everything, they already know everything. 1517 01:19:24.279 --> 01:19:26.880 They're the ones that push forward these things. They allow 1518 01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:29.319 this stuff to come out. So they don't need them 1519 01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:32.199 for anything, but they need them for something. I would 1520 01:19:32.199 --> 01:19:35.760 feel they need them for their actual intellect. What is 1521 01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:38.760 it about these people? Could we get to another dimension 1522 01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:41.840 using them? Could we use them for something else? Like 1523 01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:44.119 that's my theory as of right now. 1524 01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:46.640 I have this wait, So these are the people that 1525 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:48.279 they're trying to use to colonize Mars. 1526 01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:53.439 I mean it would make sense to use them for use. 1527 01:19:53.800 --> 01:19:57.159 I mean, if you're that intellectually intelligent, you have a 1528 01:19:57.199 --> 01:19:58.880 different your brain. 1529 01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:01.680 Is working in a different way than the majority of people. Yeah, 1530 01:20:01.720 --> 01:20:04.600 So whatever it is that they how they. 1531 01:20:04.439 --> 01:20:07.159 Are, I would feel like they would want to utilize 1532 01:20:07.199 --> 01:20:07.960 that and then. 1533 01:20:08.079 --> 01:20:09.359 See the patterns of it. 1534 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:12.159 Because if you look at how many billions of us 1535 01:20:12.199 --> 01:20:16.079 there are, and how many actually genius level intellectual people 1536 01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:19.159 there is is such a minute number comparative. 1537 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:20.479 How do they get that? 1538 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:23.359 I would assume that they would see the patterns and 1539 01:20:23.399 --> 01:20:24.279 how do we get that? 1540 01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:26.119 How do we keep unlocking. 1541 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:29.840 Various portions of the brain If we were reset at 1542 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:32.720 some point, maybe they're trying to get back to being. 1543 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:35.399 Where we were at one point in history. 1544 01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:39.079 It's very possible, and that's that's kind of the killer 1545 01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:42.199 of all of this. Despite these theories, no concrete evidence 1546 01:20:42.199 --> 01:20:46.119 has surfaced to confirm any of them. It's all speculation. 1547 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:49.159 What we're doing right now is as much information as 1548 01:20:49.199 --> 01:20:52.439 anyone else has on the situation. So who's to say 1549 01:20:52.479 --> 01:20:55.239 one way or another? So now where a Cicada thirty 1550 01:20:55.239 --> 01:20:57.560 three oh one. Now, to this day, no one publicly 1551 01:20:57.600 --> 01:21:00.159 claims to have fully solved Cicada thirty three oh one. 1552 01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:04.319 Some individuals reported reaching the final stage, allegedly receiving private 1553 01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:07.840 invitations from Cicada, but no verified proof of what happened 1554 01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:11.840 afterwards exists. A select group of solvers supposedly completed the 1555 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:15.159 puzzles and were asked to participate in a secret project. However, 1556 01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:20.000 whether this was recruitment, experimentation, or another purpose remains unknown. 1557 01:21:20.359 --> 01:21:23.000 After twenty fourteen's puzzle, the Cicada thirty three oh one 1558 01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:27.119 suddenly stopped posting. In twenty sixteen, a message appeared online 1559 01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:30.439 warning about unauthorized third party groups falsely claiming to be 1560 01:21:30.520 --> 01:21:33.479 Cicada thirty three oh one. Whether this message was truly 1561 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:37.439 from the original group remains debated. Meanwhile, Liber Primus still 1562 01:21:37.479 --> 01:21:41.399 contains unsolved passages. Some believe that unlocking its full meaning 1563 01:21:41.399 --> 01:21:44.239 could reveal the last piece of the mystery. However, with 1564 01:21:44.359 --> 01:21:47.399 no new puzzles and no official communication since twenty fourteen, 1565 01:21:47.720 --> 01:21:50.159 the fate of Cicada thirty three oh one remains uncertain. 1566 01:21:50.399 --> 01:21:53.199 Unless it resurfaces, the full story behind its elaborate challenges 1567 01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:57.680 may never be known. So now is the mystery really over? 1568 01:21:58.119 --> 01:22:00.119 Cicada thirty three oh one is still one one of 1569 01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:02.479 the biggest Internet mysteries. Was it a way of recruiting 1570 01:22:02.479 --> 01:22:07.159 topry top cryptographers, a secret cybersecurity project, or someone else. 1571 01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:10.680 No one knows for sure. After twenty fourteen. Like I said, 1572 01:22:10.760 --> 01:22:13.000 it's all it's the biggest mystery. It's the biggest mystery 1573 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:16.279 on the Internet. But let's talk about this homeboy right here, 1574 01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.960 the one who actually was the first to solve the 1575 01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:24.319 first puzzle in twenty twelve. This is from Virginia Tech magazine. 1576 01:22:24.439 --> 01:22:28.359 Let's get into it here. Codecs are Coder Creator by 1577 01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:32.760 Stephen McKay. It was an enigmatic puzzle that only the 1578 01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:36.479 nimbless intellects would take on a series of highly complicated 1579 01:22:36.479 --> 01:22:40.079 cryptographic mind benders containing prime numbers, riddles, and treks through 1580 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:44.640 assorted fantasy novels, and Virginia Tech's rising sophomore Marcus Weyner, 1581 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:47.800 solved it in twenty twelve when he was a homeschooled 1582 01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:53.239 fifteen year old in Copper Hill, Virginia fifteen. He was 1583 01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:55.079 fifteen when he solved it in twenty twelve. 1584 01:22:56.199 --> 01:22:57.920 Oh man, we didn't make me feel stupid. 1585 01:22:58.159 --> 01:22:59.239 No, no, but this is my point. 1586 01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:01.560 I mean all of us, like God, damn it, it's. 1587 01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:04.560 A fifteen year old, A homeschooled kid who's fifteen years 1588 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:07.760 old found the Cicada thing, and he's like, you know what, Okay, 1589 01:23:07.880 --> 01:23:10.920 I'll give it a whirl and succeeded allegedly. 1590 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:12.640 And this is him crazy. 1591 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:13.640 This, this is the guy. 1592 01:23:14.600 --> 01:23:17.560 He looks really smart, he doesn't he he has that smart. 1593 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:21.479 Vibe he does. He looks like he's just not intellectual superiority, 1594 01:23:21.520 --> 01:23:23.359 but also like he knows he's smarter than you, but 1595 01:23:23.399 --> 01:23:24.680 he's not going to be a dick about it. He 1596 01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:29.800 seems like that guy. Yeh, let's see. The exercise, which 1597 01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.479 appeared on the underground website four chan, was created by 1598 01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:35.319 a secret group identified themselves as a Cicada thirty three 1599 01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:38.479 oh one, claiming to be in search of those skilled 1600 01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:42.239 at deciphering cryptography the group that the group may have 1601 01:23:42.359 --> 01:23:45.439 been a loose network of tech savvy free speech activists 1602 01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:48.119 looking for new members, or perhaps a poll of programmers 1603 01:23:48.159 --> 01:23:51.159 just having fun. Now all but silent. The group was not, 1604 01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:55.000 from all reports, a cooperation of the government or corporation. 1605 01:23:55.039 --> 01:23:57.760 I should say, as one of only a handful of 1606 01:23:57.760 --> 01:23:59.800 people in the world who have solved the puzzle, all 1607 01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:03.039 of whom were subsequently invited to collaborate on an online 1608 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:07.880 project related to Internet privacy. Wayner Wanner Don't Know was 1609 01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:09.920 featured in a story about Cicada thirty three to oh 1610 01:24:09.960 --> 01:24:13.600 one in an early January edition of Rolling Stone magazine. 1611 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:17.640 So Kata puzzle long behind him and the online project 1612 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:23.279 abandoned Wayner, who's majoring in computer science. Shocker held two 1613 01:24:23.399 --> 01:24:26.000 jobs on campus last year, serving as a computer coder 1614 01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:30.000 for the university's Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System Lab, which 1615 01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:34.000 monitors nearby Strubbles Creek, and providing high performance computer coding 1616 01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:40.239 support for genomic researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute or VBI. 1617 01:24:41.199 --> 01:24:44.760 So Marcus is a unique student that in that he 1618 01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:47.560 realizes he is here to learn and not to show 1619 01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:52.359 off his excellent programming skills, said Zalman Waxman, a postdecorate 1620 01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:56.520 doctorate excuse me, research fellow at VBI. He is willing 1621 01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:59.520 to work on projects in areas where he is less comfortable, 1622 01:24:59.600 --> 01:25:03.880 which is why he wanted to go into bioinformatics, biology 1623 01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:08.399 and genomics. He already is overcoming this and learning a 1624 01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:11.520 new problem solving approach, which makes him far more valuable 1625 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.720 as a future colleague than others with equivalent skills. So 1626 01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.239 now this is a Q and A with him. Let's 1627 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:20.520 hear what he has to say. So, what drew you 1628 01:25:21.159 --> 01:25:24.439 to Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle? He says, I 1629 01:25:24.439 --> 01:25:26.720 have friends who enjoy puzzles such as this. I was 1630 01:25:26.800 --> 01:25:29.119 drawn to thirty three oh one puzzle specifically because it 1631 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:32.760 was low level file format and networking stuff, very minimal 1632 01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:36.239 and clean from a technical perspective. With most Internet puzzles, 1633 01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:38.560 if you dig deep enough, you can see some nessy 1634 01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:41.439 behind the scenes clutter, which really kills the mystery for me. 1635 01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:43.760 But thirty three oh one managed to avoid any of 1636 01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:45.920 this as far as I can tell. So for me, 1637 01:25:46.199 --> 01:25:48.039 it was clear that the person running the puzzle had 1638 01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:50.479 a very high degree of competence, and I was interested 1639 01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:54.720 in being involved with whatever they were recruiting for. Okay, okay, 1640 01:25:55.680 --> 01:26:00.119 So at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, how is your work 1641 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:04.520 and cracking genetic code assisting researchers. He goes into a 1642 01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:07.600 little bit about the the VBI stuff. We're not really 1643 01:26:07.640 --> 01:26:10.960 worried about that on this one. So both your employers 1644 01:26:11.079 --> 01:26:14.640 are dedicated to good causes, curing genetic diseases and tracking 1645 01:26:14.680 --> 01:26:17.920 water quality. Where you drawn to the cause or the challenges. 1646 01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:21.079 He says on one of the reasons I came to 1647 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:23.880 Virginia Tech was the opportunity to apply my skills to 1648 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:27.119 useful research. While a student, I had no initial interest 1649 01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:29.880 in water quality or healthcare before I started, But as 1650 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:32.199 I worked with people who have a real passion for 1651 01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:35.520 each subject matter and seeing the real data and its implications, 1652 01:26:35.760 --> 01:26:38.520 I have become excited about the research. None of us, 1653 01:26:38.520 --> 01:26:41.319 single handily are going to change the world, but we 1654 01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:43.840 are trying to come as close as we can. So 1655 01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:45.760 he seems like a good kid. 1656 01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:47.640 He seems seems like a really good kid. 1657 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:52.119 You know, Blade, what's your favorite computer tech theme film? 1658 01:26:52.119 --> 01:26:56.239 Both in regard to accuracy and guilt pleasure inaccuracy? Blade 1659 01:26:56.279 --> 01:26:58.600 Runner nineteen eighty two is at the top of my 1660 01:26:58.680 --> 01:26:59.279 list right now. 1661 01:26:59.399 --> 01:27:00.399 Freaking movie. 1662 01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:02.239 I mean, I figured you would get a kick out 1663 01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:02.640 of that one. 1664 01:27:02.840 --> 01:27:05.600 I would because I absolutely love that movie. 1665 01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:08.600 So but yeah, and so basically ask him more about 1666 01:27:08.640 --> 01:27:11.399 him personally and stuff. So, although he was the first 1667 01:27:11.479 --> 01:27:14.279 to break the puzzle, he's obviously not a member of 1668 01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.640 Cicada now or he wouldn't be publicly speaking on it. Right. 1669 01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:23.880 It's interesting that he chose janeic Jeneic not testing. Excuse me, 1670 01:27:24.079 --> 01:27:26.119 Jenek like sequencing to break. 1671 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:28.680 It makes sense to me because if he's so intelligent 1672 01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:31.640 when it comes to coding, DNA is like a code 1673 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:33.880 that you're trying to solve a crack right and move 1674 01:27:33.960 --> 01:27:38.039 things around. So it's just it's fascinating. At fifteen, he's 1675 01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:40.199 just like, Yeah, it seemed like a you know, pretty 1676 01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:43.439 easy thing and not messy, and they seemed legit. 1677 01:27:43.479 --> 01:27:46.319 And it's like, what what part of that seemed easy 1678 01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:47.520 and clean? 1679 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:51.680 I'm I have no idea, but good for him. These 1680 01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:54.720 people are so cool that they're so smart, Like I 1681 01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:55.800 wish I was on that level. 1682 01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:59.079 Man, Good for him, and God bless him. Mister Wanner, 1683 01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:01.520 if you're out there awayne, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing 1684 01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:06.239 your name, Mima, kudos to you for doing the mostest. 1685 01:28:06.840 --> 01:28:10.119 So right here we have a fandom article, a list 1686 01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:13.800 of Cicada's references. So these are the other works that 1687 01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:18.359 were brought up. Okay, so the decoy duck image, all right, 1688 01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:20.199 So that was made by a dude named Autumn Wings. 1689 01:28:20.439 --> 01:28:23.239 The source was frost Waterfowls. That was in twenty twelve. 1690 01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:27.680 King Arthur's tapestry. This was it's a tapestry. It's a 1691 01:28:27.680 --> 01:28:30.920 real historical tapestry of King Arthur that they squished together 1692 01:28:31.279 --> 01:28:33.239 and formed layers of it on top of each other 1693 01:28:33.319 --> 01:28:36.279 to make an image that you had to decode. That 1694 01:28:36.359 --> 01:28:40.479 was a part of the twenty twelve releases Agrippa by 1695 01:28:40.520 --> 01:28:44.560 William Gibson, which is a book code key, and that 1696 01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:47.920 was also in twenty twelve. So I don't I'm unfamiliar 1697 01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:50.239 with the work itself, but if it has anything to 1698 01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:53.920 do with Cornelius Agrippa, this goes into the esoteric, which 1699 01:28:53.960 --> 01:28:56.359 would make sense based off of all the other things 1700 01:28:56.399 --> 01:29:03.600 we read. Here mebin Gayon Mabinajian, which is by Charlotte Guest, 1701 01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:05.880 is a book code text. You had to go get 1702 01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:08.920 this book and use the code to decipher what the 1703 01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:13.199 actual message was this page, this paragraph, this sentence, this word, 1704 01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:18.760 all the things. Next was the Encyclopedia Britannica. You had 1705 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:21.119 to you had to go into that good bit here 1706 01:29:22.159 --> 01:29:25.439 a Song of Liberty by William Blake that you had 1707 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.880 to go to Bartleby for that one. And that was 1708 01:29:28.920 --> 01:29:31.760 also a thing too. They were getting sent to them 1709 01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:36.439 bits of sound bites songs that you would have and 1710 01:29:36.479 --> 01:29:38.960 they didn't sound. Some of them sounded weird, some of 1711 01:29:38.960 --> 01:29:42.439 them sounded kind of you know, synthesis levels of of 1712 01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:46.640 whatever kind of technoy. But you had to take these 1713 01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:49.079 and break down the sound bites, to look at the 1714 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:52.880 numbers designation on them, and then put those into a 1715 01:29:52.880 --> 01:29:58.119 binary code system to get a message out of it. Okay, 1716 01:29:58.439 --> 01:29:59.920 it's it's sane. 1717 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:02.680 It's fucking insane, crazy, Like, that's so many levels to 1718 01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:05.920 this that I don't think this is just some simple 1719 01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:08.479 little thing that Sony did for entertainment that just doesn't 1720 01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:09.439 make any sense. 1721 01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:12.279 I agree whatsoever. The next one is the Marriage of 1722 01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:14.720 Heaven and Hell from William Blake. We talked about that 1723 01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:18.720 one Lieber Alvell Legis, which is the Book of Laws 1724 01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:20.960 by Alistair Crowley. You had to use that to get 1725 01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:24.800 a certain code text the New Inquisition. Oh I'm sorry, 1726 01:30:25.279 --> 01:30:27.640 So William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. That 1727 01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:30.680 was the last one from twenty twelve, and that was 1728 01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:32.680 like your second chance to figure this out if you 1729 01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:34.920 couldn't figure it out from a Song of Liberty. Both 1730 01:30:34.960 --> 01:30:38.640 were from William Blake, by the way. Next twenty thirteen, 1731 01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:41.319 we start off with Alistair Crowley. Next, the New Inquisition 1732 01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:45.680 by Robert Anton Wilson, Self Reliance and Other Essays by 1733 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:49.560 Ralph Waldo Emerson, and that started the twenty fourteen releases. 1734 01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:53.039 So for twenty thirteen you only had these two releases, 1735 01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:57.720 one from Crowley and one from Wilson, and so there 1736 01:30:57.760 --> 01:30:59.760 was other things. There was other online things, but as 1737 01:30:59.800 --> 01:31:02.840 far as the book sources go, this was it. So 1738 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:07.119 for twenty fourteen, Self Reliance and Other Essays. Portrait of 1739 01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:12.119 Andreas del Peril, which is from Goya. Ecent's not sure 1740 01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:15.319 and it was from the National Gallery, so it's an 1741 01:31:15.359 --> 01:31:19.840 art piece. Image of Grigory resputant. In twenty fourteen, you 1742 01:31:19.880 --> 01:31:26.680 had to use that one trio Trio Sonata in G Major, 1743 01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:30.359 which is from Bach. You had to go and listen 1744 01:31:30.399 --> 01:31:33.239 to this to find source codes from it to use 1745 01:31:33.319 --> 01:31:36.199 to make a codex, which I love that they used 1746 01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:41.319 Bach because Bach has always had a mathematical quality to it, 1747 01:31:41.439 --> 01:31:43.880 or at least I've always felt so. And two years 1748 01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:46.720 ago and I was speaking to an opera singer about it. 1749 01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:48.600 It's very rare that I get to actually like chop 1750 01:31:48.640 --> 01:31:51.439 it up on some nerd levels about classic music, and 1751 01:31:52.199 --> 01:31:56.199 he agreed that like Bach was mathematic everything was done 1752 01:31:56.199 --> 01:31:58.560 that way on purpose, because he gave a structure. His 1753 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:01.359 actual quote, I love this into death. He's a member 1754 01:32:01.359 --> 01:32:04.479 of the Christian nonprophlem a part of he said back. 1755 01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:09.079 Gave us structure so that Mozart could give us fire. Okay, 1756 01:32:09.239 --> 01:32:12.239 And so looking at the Trio Sonado and g major 1757 01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:17.119 Bock's mathematical principles that he applied to his music, you 1758 01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:20.119 were supposed to take this in twenty fourteen and extrapolate 1759 01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:23.079 numbers that you would then put into some sort of 1760 01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:26.479 a source code binary hexadecimal. Who knows to get out 1761 01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:28.560 a message that would lead you to another clue. 1762 01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:34.000 That's interesting that they so many of this ties together 1763 01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:38.560 with each other in different ways. I'm curious to see 1764 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:40.359 when we get to the end of this, what your 1765 01:32:40.439 --> 01:32:40.960 theory is. 1766 01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:45.079 I mean all open to interpretation, honestly, and I'm not 1767 01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:47.760 like married to my idea as far as what this 1768 01:32:48.039 --> 01:32:51.840 was very very subject to change on this. The next 1769 01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:56.000 one was I by Escher mc Escher it's an image. 1770 01:32:56.199 --> 01:32:59.880 And then Golden escher Bach, which is an internal golden braid. 1771 01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:02.239 This was by Douglas Hofstadter. And this is a book 1772 01:33:02.520 --> 01:33:04.039 that you had to go in and find the code 1773 01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:07.279 for all of these things. That was twenty fourteen and 1774 01:33:07.279 --> 01:33:09.600 that was it. Everything else is silent. And on this 1775 01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:14.039 there's also jamatria. Let's see it going down here. There's 1776 01:33:14.119 --> 01:33:16.760 JPEGs that are used, hex dumps, which is within the 1777 01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:24.399 hexodesmer Caesar ciphers, URLs, outguest PGPs, mayan numerals book code UTC, 1778 01:33:24.520 --> 01:33:28.920 which is coordinated Universal Time QR codes that were used 1779 01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:32.760 the tour Network or dot Onion sites RSA. That's the 1780 01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:36.760 second chance part. In the second chance part aka Amdi 1781 01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:40.520 puzzle was mi id i midi perl in the RSA 1782 01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:44.039 message xo R, which is used a lot throughout the 1783 01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:49.680 twenty thirteen puzzle Jamatria converting words into numbers and vice versa. 1784 01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:54.680 There was a lot of mostly blank and outguests. Telenet, 1785 01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:57.720 which was an Internet protocol used in twenty thirteen puzzles 1786 01:33:57.720 --> 01:34:01.800 to communicate with websites without the web browse sure Schmir's 1787 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:05.239 secret sharing scheme. This is used in a twenty thirteen puzzle. 1788 01:34:05.600 --> 01:34:08.199 In the phone call part, you would receive a phone call. 1789 01:34:09.319 --> 01:34:11.159 You had to like actually get a there was a 1790 01:34:11.199 --> 01:34:13.800 telephone number that you would get. You had to call 1791 01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.199 and they would there was a message that you would 1792 01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:18.279 get that you were supposed to take as the source 1793 01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:20.439 for your next clue. Yeah. 1794 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:23.800 So when when I'm looking into this stuff, so I'm like, 1795 01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:26.479 as I'm listening to you, I'm looking up different variations 1796 01:34:26.520 --> 01:34:27.600 and sources of things. 1797 01:34:27.680 --> 01:34:27.920 Yeah. 1798 01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:32.680 So what I find interesting is so the portrait of 1799 01:34:34.119 --> 01:34:39.319 Andreus and dres So he's actually known as being his 1800 01:34:39.560 --> 01:34:40.800 main thing even though he. 1801 01:34:40.760 --> 01:34:42.319 Was a sitter of the Doctor of Law. 1802 01:34:42.720 --> 01:34:45.680 His main thing was known for being a collector of 1803 01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:47.000 the paintings by Goya. 1804 01:34:47.399 --> 01:34:48.960 Now if you look up Goya. 1805 01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:52.680 In himself, he paints a lot of interesting things, but 1806 01:34:52.720 --> 01:34:56.359 one of his most famous is a Luciferian one of 1807 01:34:56.800 --> 01:34:59.640 Lucifer and Witches of the Sabbath by the Horn God. 1808 01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:02.119 He also has a lot of demonic ones that he 1809 01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:03.640 does paintings. 1810 01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:06.319 For his paintings, he. 1811 01:35:06.279 --> 01:35:08.239 Has like normal people, but a lot of it comes 1812 01:35:08.279 --> 01:35:12.760 back to the devil and different various occult things as well. 1813 01:35:13.239 --> 01:35:14.920 And then if you're looking into. 1814 01:35:16.760 --> 01:35:22.399 The marriage of heaven and hell, yeah, it's the duality 1815 01:35:22.399 --> 01:35:26.359 of existence, merging the opposites of good and evil. Changes 1816 01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:31.800 traditional religious views, advocating for personal experience over dogma pretty much. 1817 01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:35.720 A lot of what they've put into this is very symbolized, 1818 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:40.720 very occult, very good and evil, truth and not truth 1819 01:35:40.920 --> 01:35:44.119 human experience. And then we're not even to get into 1820 01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:47.079 the previous yet, but there's a lot that is pointing 1821 01:35:47.159 --> 01:35:48.359 to this being. 1822 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:53.880 I'm not going to say angels and demon vibe, but 1823 01:35:54.159 --> 01:35:58.880 it definitely seems that there is something maybe the fairies 1824 01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:03.079 to this, maybe darker because if like, just going off 1825 01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:06.039 of three sources that I've looked at, all of which 1826 01:36:06.359 --> 01:36:11.600 have ties to good and evil, heaven and hell, that 1827 01:36:11.680 --> 01:36:15.560 kind of that kind of religious I wouldn't even say religious, 1828 01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:19.239 just that kind of you know, balance of duality and 1829 01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:22.600 personal experience and stuff like that. So it's it's interesting, 1830 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:24.359 and even in some of the stuff that they wrote, 1831 01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:27.079 when I was looking at different passages that they wrote 1832 01:36:27.119 --> 01:36:31.920 into this, it was a lot to do with personal 1833 01:36:32.079 --> 01:36:35.039 like how people are in and of itself, are they good? 1834 01:36:35.079 --> 01:36:35.720 Are the evil? 1835 01:36:36.399 --> 01:36:39.199 Different questioning of what that actually means. 1836 01:36:39.479 --> 01:36:41.119 It's interesting though that if you wouldn't have. 1837 01:36:41.159 --> 01:36:44.239 Looked up who this person was and how he was connected, 1838 01:36:44.239 --> 01:36:47.119 because if you just look at the person himself, he's 1839 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:49.319 really he's not really that exciting. 1840 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:51.439 But it's who he's associated with. 1841 01:36:51.319 --> 01:36:53.760 And how he's known as being the top collector of 1842 01:36:53.800 --> 01:36:57.199 that specific Baphomet kind of. 1843 01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:00.800 Paintings and stuff like that, which I. 1844 01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:02.520 Just found it to be weird that all of it 1845 01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:03.279 ties together. 1846 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:06.760 So I'm not saying that there was no occult or 1847 01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:09.840 spiritual significance to any of this, but especially when you're 1848 01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:11.920 looking at some of these books they were using. They 1849 01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:14.840 could have used any book for this, right, All you 1850 01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:16.880 had to do was give a code. You could have used. 1851 01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:20.039 You could have used the book Holes, you could have 1852 01:37:20.079 --> 01:37:23.279 used Moby Dick, right, and just given the same code, 1853 01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:26.239 and not the same code, you would have to write 1854 01:37:26.279 --> 01:37:28.039 out the code and the numbers and all the things. 1855 01:37:28.840 --> 01:37:30.920 So is it that they were trying to force these 1856 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:36.039 people into esoteric and gnostic works to try to get 1857 01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:37.920 it or were they trying to test to see if 1858 01:37:37.920 --> 01:37:40.439 these people were willing to do whatever it took. Were 1859 01:37:40.479 --> 01:37:43.560 these people that were willing to question certain narratives or 1860 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:48.079 wouldn't get offended by reading Crowley's works and things like this, right, 1861 01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:50.199 All these are ways of filtering out the ones that 1862 01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:53.560 they didn't want. Possibly it was to get them to 1863 01:37:53.640 --> 01:37:56.680 read into these things. And perhaps there was some dark 1864 01:37:56.680 --> 01:38:00.000 occult symbolism behind it. Maybe it was just the same, 1865 01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:03.239 Maybe it could have been any innocuous symbol, but they 1866 01:38:03.319 --> 01:38:05.319 chose to make it more of the dark and ominous 1867 01:38:05.359 --> 01:38:08.079 for that purpose. Like I don't know, but to. 1868 01:38:08.119 --> 01:38:11.479 Use Krawley, to use this guy that had Collectsgoya, which 1869 01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:14.119 is I mean, he has other works, but his famous 1870 01:38:14.159 --> 01:38:18.319 for doing more the Satanic route of things. 1871 01:38:19.039 --> 01:38:20.159 You know, to put in. 1872 01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:22.760 Certain stuff, I mean, to put in the premus ind 1873 01:38:22.800 --> 01:38:26.239 of itself that tells you pretty much like, hey, be careful, 1874 01:38:26.319 --> 01:38:28.079 what you're gonna find in here is going to be 1875 01:38:28.119 --> 01:38:32.800 pretty intense. Like it's just interesting that they selected these 1876 01:38:33.399 --> 01:38:35.920 types of things. And if I'm gonna have to look 1877 01:38:35.920 --> 01:38:37.960 at it, I'm pretty sure that there was a math. 1878 01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:41.920 Bach made a piece that was questionable of the way 1879 01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:44.520 that the sounds were that caused you to have like 1880 01:38:44.560 --> 01:38:48.039 different vibrations. I know I heard it somewhere, but I 1881 01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:49.359 would have to look into it more. 1882 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:51.640 But I know Mozart did that. I don't know if 1883 01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:55.199 Bach did or I mean, honestly, who's to say, right, 1884 01:38:55.439 --> 01:38:59.680 Bac very well may have done that on purpose. Continuing on, 1885 01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:03.119 TML was used for exploring websites and onions. Throughout the 1886 01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:06.319 puzzle TCP At the end stage of twenty thirteen, this 1887 01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:11.800 puzzle puzzles the winner needed to code TCP servers. Base 1888 01:39:11.840 --> 01:39:14.159 sixty four, which we talked about is a scheme to 1889 01:39:14.359 --> 01:39:20.359 encode unprintable bytes into printable characters. Visionaire, we talked about 1890 01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:23.079 that code that they were using to decode certain things 1891 01:39:23.520 --> 01:39:26.159 in Graham. This was used in the third Onion in 1892 01:39:26.199 --> 01:39:31.000 twenty fourteen puzzle. Column transposition cipher used in the third 1893 01:39:31.039 --> 01:39:35.600 Onion at bash was used in the second Onion totient 1894 01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:38.680 function mentioned in the Third Onion twenty fourteen puzzle and 1895 01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:41.680 used to decrypt the final page of LP or Liber 1896 01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:47.319 primusob which is out of band data and then hash 1897 01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:51.000 a hash function in any function that can be used 1898 01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:55.520 to map data or arbitrary sized to fixed sized values. 1899 01:39:56.199 --> 01:39:59.479 So again they he kind of went all over the 1900 01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.840 place on this. They were using literary sources, they were 1901 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:07.359 using technological sources, they were using ancient coded text and 1902 01:40:07.439 --> 01:40:09.119 things that you would have to use, a Caesar cipher, 1903 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.279 a Visioneer cipher, whatever the case. And of course they 1904 01:40:12.359 --> 01:40:16.039 use a couple of different websites four Chan, Reddit, mitke server, Twitter, 1905 01:40:16.600 --> 01:40:22.039 minger or iminger infotoom paste bin and uh yeah this 1906 01:40:22.199 --> 01:40:25.239 was wild things from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen and 1907 01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.600 still no real answers, right, So. 1908 01:40:28.600 --> 01:40:29.800 Now that's crazy. 1909 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:34.520 We're going to get hubis gist dot, get hub instantly 1910 01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:37.680 share codes and snippets. So this is a detailed breakdown 1911 01:40:37.760 --> 01:40:40.479 of the Cicada thirty three oh one puzzles, their solutions 1912 01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:41.920 and associated messages. 1913 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:43.680 Cool. 1914 01:40:43.760 --> 01:40:46.079 Yeah, so we're starting off at the top here. We're 1915 01:40:46.079 --> 01:40:48.000 not going to read all of it, but actually no, 1916 01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:50.920 we can read some of it. Why not here? So, uh, 1917 01:40:50.960 --> 01:40:52.720 the first one home is zoom in a little bit 1918 01:40:52.720 --> 01:40:54.159 because my eyes ain't what they used to be. I'm 1919 01:40:54.159 --> 01:40:58.119 getting old cult members, getting old r n p R 1920 01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:01.079 n p R and p. Here is a more detailed 1921 01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:03.680 breakdown of the Cicada thirty three oh one puzzles, their solutions, 1922 01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:07.119 and associated messages. So puzzle number one, the first Cicada 1923 01:41:07.159 --> 01:41:09.119 thirty three oh one puzzle, was posted on four Chan 1924 01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:12.640 January twenty twelve, involved an image that contained a message 1925 01:41:12.760 --> 01:41:17.159 hidden using steganography. The message led to a book code that, 1926 01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:20.920 when applied to the book liber alvel Ligis by Alistair Crowley, 1927 01:41:21.199 --> 01:41:24.239 produced a message that directed the solver to an onion 1928 01:41:24.279 --> 01:41:29.600 website containing another message right. The solution the image used 1929 01:41:29.600 --> 01:41:31.960 in the puzzle containing a hidden message in the form 1930 01:41:32.039 --> 01:41:36.199 of a string of characters. This message, when decrypted using 1931 01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:39.920 a steganography tool called Outguests, produced a link to a 1932 01:41:39.960 --> 01:41:43.880 subreddit containing a series of encrypted messages. Using the key 1933 01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:48.439 ao clock, the messages were decrypted and compiled into a 1934 01:41:48.439 --> 01:41:51.399 book code. The book code pointed to a specific page, 1935 01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:55.239 line and word in a book of law from Crowley 1936 01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:57.479 that revealed a message call us. 1937 01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:03.039 Okay using that book, they could have used any other book. 1938 01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:06.720 Exactly exactly so. The message call us led to a 1939 01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:10.600 tour website that contained another message, Hello, we are looking 1940 01:42:10.600 --> 01:42:13.840 for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have designed 1941 01:42:13.840 --> 01:42:16.439 a test. There is a message hidden in this image. 1942 01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:18.680 Find it and it will lead you on the road 1943 01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:21.520 to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few 1944 01:42:21.640 --> 01:42:23.840 that will make it all the way through. Good Luck 1945 01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:28.199 thirty three oh one. So you had to go into 1946 01:42:28.239 --> 01:42:31.680 Crowley's work just to get there the first step of 1947 01:42:31.720 --> 01:42:33.199 basically hey, welcome. 1948 01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:37.680 That's it's definitely done intentionally, I think so. 1949 01:42:38.840 --> 01:42:42.720 The second puzzle was posted in twenty thirteen and involved 1950 01:42:42.760 --> 01:42:44.920 a list of complex prime numbers and a series of 1951 01:42:45.000 --> 01:42:47.800 symbols that needed to be combined in a particular way 1952 01:42:47.840 --> 01:42:50.439 to reveal a message. The message was a book code 1953 01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:53.119 that directed the solver to a physical location in the world. 1954 01:42:53.159 --> 01:42:55.600 We talked about that the symbols in the puzzle were 1955 01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.239 arranged in a spiral pattern and when combined with the 1956 01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:01.399 prime numbers, revealed a message in base sixty four code. 1957 01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:03.560 The message was a book code that pointed to a 1958 01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:06.319 specific page and line in a book which we talked 1959 01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:09.760 about Alistair Crowley that revealed the message call us at 1960 01:43:09.760 --> 01:43:13.640 telephone number two one four three nine zero nine six 1961 01:43:13.800 --> 01:43:17.760 zero eight. Yeah, they gave actual phone number on this one. 1962 01:43:18.000 --> 01:43:21.560 When called, the number played a pre recorded message of 1963 01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:24.800 a robotic voice reading out a series of letters and numbers. 1964 01:43:25.319 --> 01:43:27.800 The message call us at telephone number a bop was 1965 01:43:27.800 --> 01:43:30.880 the solution to the second Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle, 1966 01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:34.439 so with that. The third Cicada thirty three oh one 1967 01:43:34.439 --> 01:43:36.880 puzzle was posted in twenty fourteen and involved the Cicada 1968 01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:39.159 thirty three oh one Twitter account that posted an image 1969 01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:43.319 containing a message hidden using stecnography. Again, the message directed 1970 01:43:43.399 --> 01:43:46.640 the solver to a tour website containing another message that 1971 01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:50.079 led to a series of quizzes on obscure topics. The 1972 01:43:50.119 --> 01:43:53.159 full solution to this puzzle has not been made public. 1973 01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:57.560 They sent a test like a personality quiz yeah in 1974 01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:00.119 puzzle number three, and you could only find it if 1975 01:44:00.159 --> 01:44:02.119 you went to the dark web and knew where to look. 1976 01:44:03.079 --> 01:44:07.039 So the solution, like we said or we read that 1977 01:44:07.079 --> 01:44:10.199 one already. The message hidden in the Twitter image directed 1978 01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.560 of the sovereign to a tour website with another message. 1979 01:44:12.600 --> 01:44:15.119 But the full solution has never been made public. And 1980 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:18.279 that's the thing. You would get sent something basically saying 1981 01:44:18.399 --> 01:44:21.600 congratulation you passed the test, or thank you for your submission, 1982 01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:25.920 will let you know something soon, essentially, right, ok So 1983 01:44:26.039 --> 01:44:28.439 puzzle number four, the fourth Cicada thirty three oh one 1984 01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:32.039 puzzle was posted in twenty sixteen. Allegedly they stopped in 1985 01:44:32.039 --> 01:44:34.479 twenty fourteen, but this is when that twenty sixteen happened, right, 1986 01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:39.720 And involved a music file that contained spectagram a spectrogram 1987 01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:42.600 rather that when decoded, produced a message that led to 1988 01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:46.159 a website containing a message written in ruins. The music 1989 01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:49.479 file contained a spectrogram that which we talked about that 1990 01:44:49.880 --> 01:44:53.520 basically when decoded using a spectrogram reading tool produce an 1991 01:44:53.560 --> 01:44:58.439 image with the word Tiberius Claudius Caesar. Would we would 1992 01:44:58.479 --> 01:44:59.199 know who that is? 1993 01:44:59.359 --> 01:44:59.479 Right? 1994 01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:03.279 Du yes Caesar. The Fort Cicada thirty three h one 1995 01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:05.520 puzzle was posted in twenty sixteen. We talked about the 1996 01:45:05.560 --> 01:45:07.880 music file and wh decoded it. Lets you know about this, 1997 01:45:08.399 --> 01:45:10.720 produce a message that led to a website containing a 1998 01:45:10.760 --> 01:45:12.960 message written in Runes, and I think that they were 1999 01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:14.600 letting you know that you were going to need a 2000 01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:19.479 Caesar cipher in order to break that code. The Fort 2001 01:45:19.560 --> 01:45:22.399 Cicada thirty three oh one puzzle was posted on Twitter 2002 01:45:22.399 --> 01:45:25.560 and twenty fourteen involved a music file named four thirty 2003 01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:32.279 three four Apostrophe thirty three Quotations by John Cage, which 2004 01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:34.439 is a piece of music that consists of four minutes 2005 01:45:34.479 --> 01:45:38.399 and thirty three seconds of listening or excuse me, four 2006 01:45:38.439 --> 01:45:42.439 minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. However, upon analyzing 2007 01:45:42.439 --> 01:45:45.520 the spectrogram in the music file, a message could be 2008 01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:50.079 decoded using a technique called steganography, which involves hiding messages 2009 01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:51.359 within other data. 2010 01:45:52.880 --> 01:45:55.840 Which is interesting that they chose thirty three as well, 2011 01:45:55.920 --> 01:45:57.720 which is the symbol for enlightenment. 2012 01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:00.079 Right now, I agree. 2013 01:46:00.399 --> 01:46:01.920 And spiritual growth. 2014 01:46:02.560 --> 01:46:07.359 So it's strange that they chose specifically thirty three. 2015 01:46:07.920 --> 01:46:09.960 Very true, very Masonic number, which is why a lot 2016 01:46:10.000 --> 01:46:11.880 of people think that that might be the connection to 2017 01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:15.039 the Freemasons. And again I'm not saying that there's no connection. 2018 01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:17.880 I'm saying that of all of the things we're talking 2019 01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:21.600 about here, that's I don't know, See, that's the case, 2020 01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:25.560 right right. The message hidden in the spectrogram led to 2021 01:46:25.560 --> 01:46:28.680 a website that contained a message written in a variant 2022 01:46:28.760 --> 01:46:31.560 of Runic alphabet, which is an ancient writing system used 2023 01:46:31.560 --> 01:46:34.840 by the Germanic and Nordic people. The Runic message translates 2024 01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:39.680 into English reads beware of false paths, always speak truth 2025 01:46:39.920 --> 01:46:42.479 and do not fear, for it is time for you 2026 01:46:42.560 --> 01:46:46.640 to seek the ultimate truth. And it repeats that three times. 2027 01:46:48.159 --> 01:46:48.600 Okay. 2028 01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:51.840 Yeah. The message also contained an image of a cicada 2029 01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:56.039 insect along with the phrase preliminary training completed check back 2030 01:46:56.359 --> 01:47:00.399 on the first or January fifth, twenty seventeen seven zeteen 2031 01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:02.119 hundred Eastern Standard time. 2032 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:06.079 Huh. 2033 01:47:06.199 --> 01:47:09.760 This was the image that was posted a golden one. 2034 01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:16.239 Yeah, which is interesting because the golden the golden sphere 2035 01:47:16.279 --> 01:47:18.680 and everything else with a lot of different things that 2036 01:47:18.920 --> 01:47:21.319 are about enlightenment is all golden as well. 2037 01:47:22.439 --> 01:47:24.319 So I don't know. 2038 01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:26.840 They have a ton of symbolism just to be a 2039 01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:28.279 quote unquote fake thing. 2040 01:47:29.079 --> 01:47:32.239 Yeah, a way too many symbolism for this. 2041 01:47:33.119 --> 01:47:35.079 So now let's go to this next article here from 2042 01:47:35.159 --> 01:47:38.800 clevcode dot org Joel Erickson or Joel, I don't know 2043 01:47:39.039 --> 01:47:41.920 he would pronounce it. Uh. He basically was talking about 2044 01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:43.880 the Cicada thirty three oh one and we're gonna read 2045 01:47:43.920 --> 01:47:45.760 it now, so we already talked about what it's from. 2046 01:47:46.159 --> 01:47:49.000 Top five areas Unsolved Internet Mysteries. Cool cool, cool cool. 2047 01:47:50.840 --> 01:47:52.960 The following is a blog post that I originally posted 2048 01:47:53.039 --> 01:47:56.239 on January thirteenth, twenty twelve, while the puzzle was still ongoing, 2049 01:47:56.239 --> 01:47:57.720 and at the time the puzzle had started to get 2050 01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:00.239 a lot of attention on various Internet forums. As it 2051 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:02.279 turns out, I was one of the few that were 2052 01:48:02.319 --> 01:48:04.760 working solo on solving it. Most of the people that 2053 01:48:04.800 --> 01:48:07.399 eventually got far were working in teams with groups of people. 2054 01:48:07.600 --> 01:48:08.920 But for me, the whole point was to try to 2055 01:48:08.960 --> 01:48:12.119 solve it myself. I've always enjoyed a challenge. In twenty 2056 01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:14.000 twenty one, the story of Cicada thirty three oh one 2057 01:48:14.039 --> 01:48:16.399 was even turned into a movie, and I can either 2058 01:48:16.439 --> 01:48:18.600 confirm or deny that this is roughly how it all 2059 01:48:18.640 --> 01:48:23.079 went down. So apparently there's a movie on thirty three 2060 01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:26.760 ZHO one which I find fascinating. Yeah. Actually a matter 2061 01:48:26.800 --> 01:48:28.880 of fact, we might be able to play a little 2062 01:48:28.920 --> 01:48:29.800 sex segment of it. 2063 01:48:29.800 --> 01:48:35.199 Now, let's see, mister Black, how did you first get 2064 01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:42.840 involved with Cicada three three zero one? 2065 01:48:46.800 --> 01:48:48.039 Actually I should back. 2066 01:48:47.880 --> 01:48:53.560 It up a few people around here for about twenty 2067 01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:56.279 percent for quality service. But no, you drop fifty cent 2068 01:48:56.439 --> 01:48:58.479 equating to what point five nine three percent on a 2069 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.199 bill that's eighty four dollars and thirty one sense there's. 2070 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:04.199 Some kind of walking calculator freak, Yeah, something like that. 2071 01:49:06.159 --> 01:49:08.479 So I have perfect recall told a couple of strangers 2072 01:49:08.479 --> 01:49:13.920 in the dark night about some douchebags credit card. Now, 2073 01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:16.800 the Cicada files, that's a click of the mouse is 2074 01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:17.800 sincerely regret. 2075 01:49:22.279 --> 01:49:25.399 They're elusive, kind of like the IT department of the Ilumnati. 2076 01:49:26.239 --> 01:49:27.479 You can't make this shit up. 2077 01:49:28.600 --> 01:49:31.199 At this point, you got involved with the NSA. 2078 01:49:32.960 --> 01:49:36.800 Yeah, just about. Let's see how cute you are when 2079 01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:39.520 I found your paint back Jesus Carver, take it down 2080 01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:41.760 a knoch, just take it down a knoch. I thought 2081 01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:43.880 you said I was bad cop. No, I said you 2082 01:49:44.039 --> 01:49:47.640 are a bad cop. We would like your help with something. 2083 01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:51.960 You get your ass back to Hauntank Cicada and help 2084 01:49:52.039 --> 01:49:52.840 us bring them down. 2085 01:49:53.560 --> 01:49:55.319 You got in and you weren't gonna tell me. 2086 01:49:56.760 --> 01:49:58.720 You have done well to come this far. 2087 01:50:01.000 --> 01:50:03.520 Everyone who finished this game disappeared. 2088 01:50:04.119 --> 01:50:05.319 You guys need to stop now. 2089 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:07.960 I'm not getting murdered by some crazy ass cold leader. 2090 01:50:08.079 --> 01:50:12.279 Some of us have things flew show yourself. 2091 01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:22.000 Saper has to kick some secret in, said booty. Do 2092 01:50:22.159 --> 01:50:23.960 not try who I'm smart us. 2093 01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:27.079 You will lose. 2094 01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:37.159 Look, I mean I could go on and on and 2095 01:50:37.199 --> 01:50:37.760 on and on. 2096 01:50:38.359 --> 01:50:39.199 Such a dick. 2097 01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:50.720 Unbelievable. 2098 01:50:52.560 --> 01:50:54.520 So there's a couple of images there that was like 2099 01:50:54.560 --> 01:50:55.760 what the fuck are we looking at here? 2100 01:50:55.800 --> 01:50:57.680 But sure it was like does he have a dick 2101 01:50:57.760 --> 01:50:58.800 on his forehead? 2102 01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:01.119 And then it played in and it was in his mouth, 2103 01:51:01.119 --> 01:51:02.920 and I was like, okay, that's exactly. 2104 01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:03.439 What I did see. 2105 01:51:03.680 --> 01:51:05.720 That was like a chindo but on his mouth, which 2106 01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:07.840 like that's a thing, that's totally a thing. 2107 01:51:08.119 --> 01:51:10.680 Okay, that was a random part, but interesting. They mentioned 2108 01:51:10.680 --> 01:51:12.560 an Illuminati and everything else into it. 2109 01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:15.000 I do want to watch this movie now, And be honest, 2110 01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:16.479 I didn't know it was a thing. And that's not 2111 01:51:16.640 --> 01:51:20.600 like an unknown cast by any mean. I recognize some 2112 01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:21.199 of those actors. 2113 01:51:21.239 --> 01:51:22.800 Sure, well that's the guy from. 2114 01:51:24.239 --> 01:51:28.199 Reacher Preacher, Yeah, Reacher, who also played Fad from Blue 2115 01:51:28.199 --> 01:51:31.600 Mountain State. But I would love to see this movie now. 2116 01:51:31.720 --> 01:51:33.600 Didn't know that was a thing before we started this research. 2117 01:51:33.640 --> 01:51:36.319 But anyway, so how it all began on January four, 2118 01:51:36.359 --> 01:51:38.800 twenty twelve. We talked about this already, the image uploaded 2119 01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:40.920 to four chan. It led you down a rabbit hole. 2120 01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:44.479 This is the image. This is the actual message itself. Hello, 2121 01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:46.840 we are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, 2122 01:51:47.000 --> 01:51:49.880 we advise a test. There's a message hidden in this image. 2123 01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:51.439 Find it and it will lead you down a road 2124 01:51:51.479 --> 01:51:53.680 to find us. We look forward to meeting the few 2125 01:51:53.760 --> 01:51:55.439 that will make it all the way through. Good Luck 2126 01:51:55.600 --> 01:51:59.079 thirty three oh one. And then he saw about His 2127 01:51:59.119 --> 01:52:01.520 first thought was that it was to use steganography to 2128 01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:03.920 hide a message, and since it was a JPEG image, 2129 01:52:03.920 --> 01:52:08.359 I tried using Steg detect excuse me by Neil's provos 2130 01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:11.520 in case one of the detectable schemes was used. Since 2131 01:52:11.720 --> 01:52:15.079 Steg detect have not been updated in almost seven years, 2132 01:52:15.159 --> 01:52:17.640 I didn't really get my hopes up that high, but 2133 01:52:17.720 --> 01:52:19.680 it was always worth a shot. The results can be 2134 01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:25.479 seen below, and that's when they saw the Tiberius Claudus. Okay, right, 2135 01:52:26.119 --> 01:52:29.199 I didn't detect any common s technography schemes, but notified 2136 01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:34.720 me of sixty one appended bites of ACESCII text. Since 2137 01:52:34.720 --> 01:52:37.359 my move would have been to use strings, I would 2138 01:52:37.359 --> 01:52:39.720 have discovered this anyway, but Steg detect was kind enough 2139 01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:41.760 to tell me directly instead. So let's see what we have. 2140 01:52:42.279 --> 01:52:47.680 Tiberius Claudius Caesar. This quote obviously a shift of cipher 2141 01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:50.479 of some sort, also known as a Caesar cipher, with 2142 01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:54.800 lxxt greater than thirty three being ciphered version of the 2143 01:52:54.960 --> 01:52:58.439 HTTP colon slash slash. I didn't know that it is again, 2144 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:01.199 but that's again. This is it. So this is the 2145 01:53:01.239 --> 01:53:03.920 ciphered version of the HTTP thing that we have on 2146 01:53:03.960 --> 01:53:10.840 every website ever. Thirty three No, no, no, lxxt greater 2147 01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:14.119 than thirty three. So the slash slash is thirty three. 2148 01:53:14.119 --> 01:53:17.479 Apparently I didn't know that, but. 2149 01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:20.840 I mean, we're all about as symbolism. 2150 01:53:20.319 --> 01:53:24.439 Here we are indeed, so a shift c replaces each 2151 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:26.880 letter in the plain text with a letter or in 2152 01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:30.600 this case, an arbitrary character with a letter a certain 2153 01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:32.960 number of positions down the alphabet. So let's compare it 2154 01:53:33.000 --> 01:53:35.279 to the values and suppose a plain text that we 2155 01:53:35.359 --> 01:53:38.920 see in the shift value. In this particular case, this 2156 01:53:39.039 --> 01:53:41.319 might have been a bit overkilled, since we could have 2157 01:53:41.680 --> 01:53:44.199 just as well manually counted the distance between H and 2158 01:53:44.239 --> 01:53:46.640 I and the alphabet or H and L. I should 2159 01:53:46.680 --> 01:53:49.920 say it is probably not a coincidence that Claudius happens 2160 01:53:49.920 --> 01:53:52.600 to be the fourth emperor of the Roman Empire and 2161 01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:56.800 the shift value happens to be four, So fair enough 2162 01:53:57.079 --> 01:54:00.000 to decipher this A pearl on a pearl one line 2163 01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:04.079 is enough. So then we have this image right, which 2164 01:54:04.119 --> 01:54:07.479 we talked about already. It seems the image you are 2165 01:54:07.560 --> 01:54:09.840 el commut. Okay, it seems like the challenge is a 2166 01:54:09.840 --> 01:54:12.640 bit harder than a Caesar cipher after all. Note that 2167 01:54:12.680 --> 01:54:15.840 the message contains the word out and guess, though, which 2168 01:54:15.880 --> 01:54:18.479 could be a hint that we are actually supposed to 2169 01:54:18.560 --> 01:54:22.439 use an old outguess tool to extract the hidden message. Incidentally, 2170 01:54:22.520 --> 01:54:27.000 outguess is also developed by Neil's Provos and is available 2171 01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:30.199 for download from the same site as steg Detect. Unfortunately, 2172 01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:32.359 it seems like stag detect is the only able to 2173 01:54:32.439 --> 01:54:36.399 detect when the older out guests has been used and 2174 01:54:36.520 --> 01:54:39.760 not out guests point one three instead of out Guess 2175 01:54:39.840 --> 01:54:42.920 point two. Again, they're getting into things that I know 2176 01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:47.039 nothing about. Using out guests point two with the minus 2177 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:51.119 R option immediately reveals a hidden message in the original image. 2178 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:55.000 So they have these bytes, they have these numbers, but 2179 01:54:55.039 --> 01:54:57.760 it's Outguess thirty three oh one jpeg and thirty three 2180 01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:01.319 oh one text. So there's a hidden message that can 2181 01:55:01.319 --> 01:55:05.479 be found. Is this a hyperlink? Let's see, let's go 2182 01:55:05.520 --> 01:55:10.680 to the hyperlink. So this is the book code. This 2183 01:55:10.840 --> 01:55:13.479 was the actual message, and at the bottom says here's 2184 01:55:13.520 --> 01:55:15.520 the book code. To find the book and more information, 2185 01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:19.199 go to a reddit website. And then this was the 2186 01:55:19.199 --> 01:55:21.000 book code, and at the bottom it says, good luck 2187 01:55:21.119 --> 01:55:21.960 thirty three oh one. 2188 01:55:22.560 --> 01:55:24.239 We're gonna get flagged. I guarantee you. 2189 01:55:25.079 --> 01:55:27.840 I mean, maybe we're also a conspiracy show, so we're 2190 01:55:27.840 --> 01:55:31.800 probably on some lists. It'd be like that. So now 2191 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:35.039 things are actually getting interesting, although the challenges have not 2192 01:55:35.079 --> 01:55:40.000 been required any particularly advanced skills yet, which I respectfully disagree. 2193 01:55:40.000 --> 01:55:42.760 But okay, just looking at that duck image of being like, oh, 2194 01:55:42.800 --> 01:55:44.960 they clearly mean out guests and a different version of 2195 01:55:45.000 --> 01:55:47.279 it because it's made from the same guy. But I 2196 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:50.439 think that requires an advanced set of skills to even 2197 01:55:50.439 --> 01:55:51.039 see that shit. 2198 01:55:51.880 --> 01:55:53.720 Half of the shit that you've read them like, m. 2199 01:55:54.439 --> 01:55:59.000 Yes, the same same someone has obviously been putting some 2200 01:55:59.079 --> 01:56:01.279 work into it. The hidden message says that we could 2201 01:56:01.279 --> 01:56:03.359 go to the following yurl, which is a Reddit thread 2202 01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:04.880 which you know what, Let's see if we can click 2203 01:56:04.920 --> 01:56:07.720 that one. Yeah, this is it. Hello, we have found 2204 01:56:07.720 --> 01:56:10.760 the individuals we saw. Thus our month long journey ends 2205 01:56:11.159 --> 01:56:14.199 for now. Thank you for dedication or excuse me, thank 2206 01:56:14.239 --> 01:56:16.520 you for your dedication and effort. If you were unable 2207 01:56:16.560 --> 01:56:18.800 to complete the test or did not receive an email, 2208 01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:21.840 do not despair. There will be more opportunities like this one. 2209 01:56:22.000 --> 01:56:24.920 Thank you all thirty three oh one ps. And he 2210 01:56:25.000 --> 01:56:27.920 gave a long list of numbers and slashes and things 2211 01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:30.239 and stuff, so you were supposed to just take that 2212 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:35.399 no to you know, find the message. Yep, that's the 2213 01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:39.920 thing anyway. The hidden message also includes a so called 2214 01:56:39.920 --> 01:56:42.479 book codes consisting consisting of a number of lines with 2215 01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:45.079 two digits separated by a colon on each, and we 2216 01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:47.199 talked about that already. Some of the book ciphers here, 2217 01:56:47.239 --> 01:56:49.119 So when visiting the Reddit page we can make a 2218 01:56:49.159 --> 01:56:51.680 number of observations. Most notably, there are a number of 2219 01:56:51.720 --> 01:56:55.399 posts by the pseudonym cage throttle us that seems to 2220 01:56:55.720 --> 01:56:59.119 consist of encoded text, which we can assume to be 2221 01:56:59.279 --> 01:57:01.960 the book. It looks like an ordinary Caesar sipher may 2222 01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:04.119 have been used, but on a closer look, no shift 2223 01:57:04.199 --> 01:57:07.359 values results in readable text. It seems most likely that 2224 01:57:07.439 --> 01:57:10.239 a key of some sort is required to decode the text. 2225 01:57:10.720 --> 01:57:12.920 Looking closer at the page, we can also see that 2226 01:57:12.920 --> 01:57:15.319 the title is It's a lot of letters and numbers. 2227 01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:19.600 The uur self is truncated version of this to the 2228 01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:23.239 right below subscribe button, the title text is repeated and 2229 01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:27.439 verify seven A thirty five, zero, nine zero F is 2230 01:57:27.439 --> 01:57:30.159 written underneath. We can also see pictures of some Mayan 2231 01:57:30.279 --> 01:57:33.479 numbers on the top of the page. Mayan numbers are 2232 01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:37.840 quite logical, at least from zero to nineteen, A dot 2233 01:57:37.920 --> 01:57:41.159 equals one and a vertical line equals five. Two lines 2234 01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:44.359 thus equals ten one line with two dots equals seven, 2235 01:57:44.640 --> 01:57:47.600 five and two cool so on. And if you've ever 2236 01:57:47.640 --> 01:57:50.680 seen Mayan numbers, it looks it's just dashes with some 2237 01:57:50.760 --> 01:57:53.800 dots on top. But for the Mayans this was their 2238 01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:58.800 mathematical numerology, which is great. There's also a symbol resembling 2239 01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:02.039 a rugby ball that equals zero, so they had that too. 2240 01:58:02.039 --> 01:58:04.720 They understood the concept of zero. So many people are 2241 01:58:04.720 --> 01:58:07.000 like man, the Greeks are the first to even think 2242 01:58:07.079 --> 01:58:10.039 of what zero meant. Ancient Maya already knew that zero 2243 01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:12.479 meant no value. It was like a placeholder kind of thing. 2244 01:58:13.800 --> 01:58:17.359 The number sequence using written using the Maya numbers is 2245 01:58:17.399 --> 01:58:23.760 as follows ten two, fourteen, seven nineteen six eighteen twelve 2246 01:58:24.159 --> 01:58:28.920 seven eight seventeen zero nineteen. Now, comparing this with the 2247 01:58:29.399 --> 01:58:31.880 long thing in the title, we can see that the 2248 01:58:31.920 --> 01:58:35.479 number below ten in the sequence above is also found 2249 01:58:35.520 --> 01:58:38.399 in this string at the same positions. 2250 01:58:39.640 --> 01:58:43.159 Oh my goodness, like, yeah, this is just so easy. What. 2251 01:58:44.079 --> 01:58:47.199 Also, note that instead of the ten, we have a A, 2252 01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:50.399 instead of fourteen, we have a E, and so on 2253 01:58:50.479 --> 01:58:53.319 up to j being nineteen. Since the title of the 2254 01:58:53.359 --> 01:58:56.720 page contains twenty three characters and there were only thirteen 2255 01:58:56.760 --> 01:58:59.279 maya numbers. It is quite likely that we are supposed 2256 01:58:59.279 --> 01:59:02.439 to continue convert characters from the title to numbers, and 2257 01:59:02.479 --> 01:59:04.000 that gives us and I'm not going to rea all 2258 01:59:04.039 --> 01:59:06.600 those numbers off. This could very well be the key 2259 01:59:06.880 --> 01:59:11.199 required to decode the text regarding the verify in those numbers. 2260 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:13.840 It may refer to any number of things. A PGB 2261 01:59:14.000 --> 01:59:17.279 key ID, however, a good assumption, since it consists of 2262 01:59:17.279 --> 01:59:20.560 thirty two bit value normally encoded as eight hex characters, 2263 01:59:20.560 --> 01:59:23.039 and since PGP keys can be used to verify the 2264 01:59:23.079 --> 01:59:27.199 signature and thus the authenticity of messages signed with a 2265 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:30.479 PGP key, this could quite This could be quite handy 2266 01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:33.079 in case the challenges go on, and in case people 2267 01:59:33.119 --> 01:59:35.840 decide to drop false leads to people working on it. 2268 01:59:36.279 --> 01:59:39.199 So it's a it's an article where he basically breaks 2269 01:59:39.239 --> 01:59:41.000 it all the way down. But you see the level 2270 01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:45.880 of intellect. Yes, it's yeah. 2271 01:59:45.720 --> 01:59:49.520 That's that's crazy, and yeah, he goes into more details 2272 01:59:49.560 --> 01:59:51.079 and all this stuff and how to do it. 2273 01:59:51.800 --> 01:59:54.439 He shows all the messages, He shows how he got 2274 01:59:54.479 --> 01:59:57.880 to where he was. The file Reddit text consists of 2275 01:59:57.960 --> 01:59:59.479 the lines posting the reddit page so. 2276 01:59:59.439 --> 02:00:01.159 Far that one says king Arthur. 2277 02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:05.600 Yep, it's all its about, yeah, the Guinevere and her 2278 02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:09.399 it's all of these things. It ties in so many 2279 02:00:09.439 --> 02:00:12.880 different things. There's no way to not see that. And 2280 02:00:12.880 --> 02:00:16.159 then also read the King Arthur's story to get what 2281 02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:21.000 the next clue is supposed to be. So crazy he 2282 02:00:21.079 --> 02:00:22.920 used bash script to get to the next part. He's 2283 02:00:22.920 --> 02:00:26.279 talking about upper cases and lower cases and column ciphers 2284 02:00:26.359 --> 02:00:29.319 and R right before the s on this line as well, 2285 02:00:29.359 --> 02:00:33.399 from the word daggers that's also used. Another thing in 2286 02:00:33.439 --> 02:00:35.840 common for these particular lines of texts that they include 2287 02:00:35.880 --> 02:00:39.479 a period somewhere before the character that has been decoded incorrectly. 2288 02:00:39.960 --> 02:00:43.319 If we assume that periods, which in sentences should count 2289 02:00:43.319 --> 02:00:45.600 as two characters instead of one. When applying it to 2290 02:00:45.640 --> 02:00:48.359 the book code, we get this, which looks a bit neater, 2291 02:00:48.800 --> 02:00:51.840 and it shows uh, call us at the telephone number 2292 02:00:52.159 --> 02:00:57.439 two one four, three nine nine six eight. So that's 2293 02:00:57.680 --> 02:00:58.119 low key. 2294 02:00:58.159 --> 02:01:00.880 Want to call it a live here. 2295 02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:05.159 Call it raven, call it on your phone, so I'm 2296 02:01:05.159 --> 02:01:07.239 gonna give it to you two to one four hang 2297 02:01:07.279 --> 02:01:09.359 on hand, all right, and put it on speakerphone too, 2298 02:01:09.359 --> 02:01:12.119 so we can all hear. Okay, two one four, three 2299 02:01:12.319 --> 02:01:16.640 nine zero three nine zero nine six zero eight. 2300 02:01:17.199 --> 02:01:18.479 Nine six zero eight. 2301 02:01:18.720 --> 02:01:21.119 Man, I swear, if I get some crazy people show 2302 02:01:21.159 --> 02:01:22.119 up in my house, we're. 2303 02:01:22.039 --> 02:01:24.119 About to get swatted. No, but this is open sources 2304 02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:27.439 all over the internet. Of course, it's the number that 2305 02:01:27.520 --> 02:01:31.319 no longer works anymore. And that's the other thing. It 2306 02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:34.520 only worked for so long. It was only online for 2307 02:01:34.680 --> 02:01:37.439 I mean maybe a few months. But they said that 2308 02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:40.399 this all took place in one month, so in January 2309 02:01:40.600 --> 02:01:44.000 of twenty twelve, and then January twenty thirteen, January twenty fourteen, 2310 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:47.720 after the one month it was over Allegedly. 2311 02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:48.760 It's a Texas number. 2312 02:01:49.399 --> 02:01:50.119 Yeah, it's Austin. 2313 02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:57.199 No, it's Carrol Carrollton. It's Carrollton, Texas. 2314 02:01:58.279 --> 02:02:01.039 Okay. I don't know if that would have like, I mean, 2315 02:02:01.039 --> 02:02:02.560 that's like saying like a two two five is a 2316 02:02:02.560 --> 02:02:05.119 Baton Rouge number, but like that's not necessarily it's like 2317 02:02:05.159 --> 02:02:08.239 the surrounding areas too. I don't know. I heard somewhere 2318 02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:09.600 when I was doing my research that it was an 2319 02:02:09.600 --> 02:02:12.720 Austin number. But if Carrollton is close to then fine, 2320 02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:15.560 or if that's fuck out there and out biopasso. I 2321 02:02:15.560 --> 02:02:16.920 don't know. I don't know. 2322 02:02:18.359 --> 02:02:20.760 Honestly, I'm looking if it's on a lay line. 2323 02:02:21.520 --> 02:02:25.119 If Carrollton is on a lay line, potentially, Hey, I'm 2324 02:02:25.159 --> 02:02:27.720 at this point. I feel like there's nothing that is. 2325 02:02:28.279 --> 02:02:30.399 I feel like everything is super intentional. 2326 02:02:31.079 --> 02:02:32.439 Yeah, that's fair then. 2327 02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:36.800 And so it's like I've you know, I feel like 2328 02:02:36.880 --> 02:02:41.159 anything and everything is very intentional with these people, So 2329 02:02:41.199 --> 02:02:42.960 why would it not be so? 2330 02:02:43.079 --> 02:02:46.840 With that? Right, it's a Texas based phone number. They 2331 02:02:46.840 --> 02:02:49.640 put some effort in obviously when calling the number one is, 2332 02:02:49.960 --> 02:02:52.600 or rather was the number has now been deactivated. Wow, 2333 02:02:52.600 --> 02:02:54.600 we should have read that before we called. Greeted by 2334 02:02:54.600 --> 02:02:57.000 the following message, very good, you have done well. There 2335 02:02:57.039 --> 02:03:01.479 are three prime numbers associated with the original final JPEG image. 2336 02:03:01.640 --> 02:03:03.560 Thirty three oh one is one of them. You will 2337 02:03:03.600 --> 02:03:05.640 have to find the other two. Multiply all three of 2338 02:03:05.640 --> 02:03:07.760 these numbers together and add a dot com to find 2339 02:03:07.760 --> 02:03:10.920 the next step. Good luck and goodbye. So this is 2340 02:03:10.920 --> 02:03:14.119 where they actually went and found the pixels, because they 2341 02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:16.119 just said that thirty three oh one was one of them. 2342 02:03:16.439 --> 02:03:18.520 And if you look at it, five oh three and 2343 02:03:18.680 --> 02:03:21.119 five oh nine, if you realize, if you looked at it, 2344 02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:24.279 it's not a perfect square. It was almost a perfect square. 2345 02:03:24.720 --> 02:03:26.840 So when you took the number of pixels on the 2346 02:03:26.840 --> 02:03:29.359 width and the length of this thirty three oh one 2347 02:03:29.399 --> 02:03:32.239 times five oh three times five oh nine, you would 2348 02:03:32.239 --> 02:03:35.159 get this number eight four five one four five one 2349 02:03:35.159 --> 02:03:38.760 two seven. Okay. And when looking at the metadata for 2350 02:03:38.760 --> 02:03:41.640 the original image that was noted, when you would type 2351 02:03:41.640 --> 02:03:44.600 that in as a dot com, it would send you 2352 02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:46.720 to another website and then you would have to use 2353 02:03:46.760 --> 02:03:49.199 that it would show the Cicada countdown. 2354 02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:50.920 One. 2355 02:03:52.680 --> 02:03:55.840 So apparently it is on a lay line that is 2356 02:03:55.880 --> 02:03:58.000 referred to in the Bible as well. 2357 02:03:59.560 --> 02:04:00.000 Texas. 2358 02:04:00.039 --> 02:04:04.399 Yes, this is so. It says it says. 2359 02:04:04.239 --> 02:04:07.479 That significance of Carrollton, Texas being on a lay line 2360 02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:09.840 in the Bible, and it talks about lay lines, and 2361 02:04:09.880 --> 02:04:13.720 it talks about it doesn't specifically mention lay lines, but 2362 02:04:13.800 --> 02:04:16.399 people connected to it. And it says that Carrollton's location 2363 02:04:16.560 --> 02:04:19.600 may seem significant and spiritual and metaphysical reasons. 2364 02:04:20.840 --> 02:04:23.520 Okay, So apparently it is. 2365 02:04:24.199 --> 02:04:25.680 So it's it's all tied in. 2366 02:04:26.399 --> 02:04:30.439 It's twenty eight seventeen, I guess, or that's what I 2367 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:32.680 haven't read all the way into it. I'm just briefly 2368 02:04:33.159 --> 02:04:34.880 skimming it, but it is tight in. 2369 02:04:35.600 --> 02:04:36.079 Wow. 2370 02:04:37.039 --> 02:04:39.479 So I told you everything is somehow intentional with these 2371 02:04:39.520 --> 02:04:41.199 people obviously. 2372 02:04:41.279 --> 02:04:41.439 Yeah. 2373 02:04:41.479 --> 02:04:43.800 Point first is my point when we get to it, 2374 02:04:43.840 --> 02:04:45.880 of what I believe is actually happening. 2375 02:04:46.079 --> 02:04:50.239 Okay, fair enough. So now, whenever you found these numbers 2376 02:04:50.680 --> 02:04:53.279 and you've got you've multiplied them to get this number, 2377 02:04:53.319 --> 02:04:55.439 and you went to a dot com, it brought you 2378 02:04:55.520 --> 02:04:59.039 to the Cicada countdown. And once the countdown was over, 2379 02:04:59.640 --> 02:05:03.239 it due to all of this code, right, and we 2380 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:05.039 talked about that there was a Caada countdown that was 2381 02:05:05.079 --> 02:05:07.560 going on. This is a key, and so when you 2382 02:05:07.600 --> 02:05:10.760 signed in using the Cicada three three zero one key, 2383 02:05:11.079 --> 02:05:13.079 the challenge so far had been quite fun but rather 2384 02:05:13.159 --> 02:05:16.439 different experience. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next. 2385 02:05:17.520 --> 02:05:21.520 When the countdown was finished at seventeen hundred UTC January ninth, 2386 02:05:21.560 --> 02:05:23.680 twenty twelve, it was replaced by a string of digits 2387 02:05:23.720 --> 02:05:27.840 resembling GPS coordinates. This is whenever we got to the 2388 02:05:27.880 --> 02:05:31.119 real world applications, and there was some fourteen places around 2389 02:05:31.159 --> 02:05:32.560 the world where you had to go and find those 2390 02:05:32.640 --> 02:05:35.720 QR codes. So again this is from a person who 2391 02:05:35.760 --> 02:05:39.119 actually did the work and went there and did all 2392 02:05:39.119 --> 02:05:42.840 these things right. They both also included a twenty two 2393 02:05:42.920 --> 02:05:46.279 line book code. Both of them included text the product 2394 02:05:46.359 --> 02:05:49.479 of the first two primes at line three and fifteen, 2395 02:05:49.800 --> 02:05:51.920 and one of them also included the text the first 2396 02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:54.520 prime at line eight. This probably means that the characters 2397 02:05:55.079 --> 02:05:57.720 on these positions should be replaced with the numbers described. 2398 02:05:57.920 --> 02:06:00.560 Note that the definition of a prime number is a 2399 02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:03.800 natural number greater than one with no positive divisors other 2400 02:06:03.840 --> 02:06:06.439 than one itself and itself. This means that the first 2401 02:06:06.439 --> 02:06:08.640 two prime numbers are two and three. 2402 02:06:08.960 --> 02:06:11.479 The three read the message above it. I think she 2403 02:06:11.479 --> 02:06:12.720 would have actually said right. 2404 02:06:12.640 --> 02:06:16.399 There, okay, So let's see. I'll read both of them here. 2405 02:06:16.399 --> 02:06:17.119 As a matter of fact. 2406 02:06:17.199 --> 02:06:18.760 Yeah, I just wanted to see what they say because 2407 02:06:18.760 --> 02:06:20.760 I feel like everything is super connected and I want 2408 02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:23.359 to hear how what is actually being said? 2409 02:06:23.720 --> 02:06:27.840 Okay? In twenty nine volumes, knowledge was once contained. How 2410 02:06:27.880 --> 02:06:33.359 many lines of code remained when the mad big Mabinogian paused, 2411 02:06:34.039 --> 02:06:36.680 go for that in from the beginning and find my 2412 02:06:36.800 --> 02:06:43.680 first name? Okay? Then the other one had this text, 2413 02:06:43.960 --> 02:06:47.359 a poem of fading death named for a king, meant 2414 02:06:47.359 --> 02:06:50.640 to be read only once in vanish alas it could 2415 02:06:50.640 --> 02:06:55.840 not remain unseen. Okay, supercryptic poems. 2416 02:06:55.479 --> 02:06:59.600 Here supercryptic, but hey, I'm interested in. 2417 02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:02.840 It, so anyway. The three lines of text in each 2418 02:07:02.880 --> 02:07:05.439 message seemed likely to be a hint to which book 2419 02:07:05.520 --> 02:07:08.840 slash text to use, and as the key to include 2420 02:07:08.840 --> 02:07:11.640 the book code by googling for some keywords. In the 2421 02:07:11.640 --> 02:07:15.000 second message, the poem fading and death read only once 2422 02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:18.800 in vanish. The wiki entry for a three hundred line 2423 02:07:18.840 --> 02:07:22.399 poem by William Gibson is among the first hints. The 2424 02:07:22.399 --> 02:07:25.399 poem is called Agrippa or a book of the Dead, 2425 02:07:25.960 --> 02:07:29.840 and according to the Wikipedia, its principal notoriety arose from 2426 02:07:29.840 --> 02:07:32.479 the fact that the poem, stored on a three point 2427 02:07:32.560 --> 02:07:35.960 five inch floppy disc, was programmed to erase itself after 2428 02:07:36.000 --> 02:07:39.840 a single use. Similarly, the pages of the artist's book 2429 02:07:39.840 --> 02:07:44.319 were treated with photosensitive chemicals, affecting the gradual fading of 2430 02:07:44.359 --> 02:07:47.079 the words and images from the book's first exposure to light. 2431 02:07:47.600 --> 02:07:49.439 This fits the description perfectly. 2432 02:07:50.239 --> 02:07:53.279 That's crazy, yeah, And I mean you. 2433 02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:56.600 Have to find this floppy disc then and to do that, 2434 02:07:56.640 --> 02:07:59.319 And yeah, so it's a Grippa is a book of 2435 02:07:59.319 --> 02:08:01.359 the dead, so it's not about Cornelius Agrippa. I was 2436 02:08:01.399 --> 02:08:04.159 wrong on that one. But anyway, when googling for William 2437 02:08:04.159 --> 02:08:07.279 Gibson's Agrippa, the first hit sends you to the website. 2438 02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:10.600 Basically take taking this text, including line breaks as the 2439 02:08:10.680 --> 02:08:13.840 key for the book code results in the following and 2440 02:08:13.920 --> 02:08:15.760 there's a lot of things on the screen right now. 2441 02:08:16.000 --> 02:08:18.960 But moving on, it says, judging by the dot onion 2442 02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:21.439 at the end of the string, this is actually an 2443 02:08:21.479 --> 02:08:24.680 anonymous hidden service on the tour network. Unfortunately, by the 2444 02:08:24.680 --> 02:08:26.560 time I arrived with the stage, the tour service was 2445 02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:29.199 not available anymore. Thirty three oh one, it concluded the 2446 02:08:29.239 --> 02:08:31.319 last couple of messages with you've shared too much at 2447 02:08:31.319 --> 02:08:34.399 this point. We want the best, not the followers. Thus 2448 02:08:34.439 --> 02:08:36.920 the first few there will receive the prize. So it 2449 02:08:36.960 --> 02:08:39.720 was probably the first, come, first serve the ones who 2450 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:42.000 are lucky enough to arrive in time, most of which 2451 02:08:42.039 --> 02:08:45.479 did not solve much or any of this challenge themselves. 2452 02:08:45.600 --> 02:08:48.720 Since people were sharing their solutions, got to enter their 2453 02:08:48.840 --> 02:08:51.600 email addresses and were informed that they would be contact 2454 02:08:51.640 --> 02:08:55.279 within a few days. But so Agrippa wasn't even the point, 2455 02:08:56.239 --> 02:08:58.159 right the book itself, the Book of the Dead, none 2456 02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:00.319 of that was the point. All of it was to 2457 02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:03.479 lead you to a tour browser that after so many 2458 02:09:03.920 --> 02:09:05.640 visits was shut down. 2459 02:09:06.840 --> 02:09:07.960 I think all of it's a book. 2460 02:09:08.239 --> 02:09:11.079 I think all of the references and everything that is 2461 02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:14.239 tight in is all the point though, is actually the 2462 02:09:14.279 --> 02:09:18.079 point of it? Yeah, I think that this was that 2463 02:09:18.159 --> 02:09:21.439 they were having people do these things, obviously to test 2464 02:09:21.479 --> 02:09:24.199 the knowledge. But I think every single component of this 2465 02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:26.159 was one hundred percent the point. 2466 02:09:26.359 --> 02:09:28.600 I agree. I agree, because like. 2467 02:09:28.600 --> 02:09:32.119 Even looking up this manuscript, the memo, I don't even 2468 02:09:32.159 --> 02:09:32.840 know how to say. 2469 02:09:32.640 --> 02:09:35.039 It may been. I don't know. 2470 02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:40.279 It's a Celtic mythology, and it comes from two different sources, 2471 02:09:40.279 --> 02:09:43.359 two different manuscripts, the Red Book of her Guest and 2472 02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:49.279 the White Book of Rye doctor right Rye, the Dirich 2473 02:09:49.520 --> 02:09:53.359 right Dirich or something, and like it has fourteen it 2474 02:09:53.399 --> 02:09:56.880 has eleven separate tales, and like they go into all 2475 02:09:56.920 --> 02:09:59.119 sorts of stuff. But I think every single one of 2476 02:09:59.159 --> 02:10:03.760 these things is important to the overall arching theme. 2477 02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:06.359 Of what actually or who is actually behind it. 2478 02:10:06.520 --> 02:10:09.199 Personally, I'm with you, and I think that was all 2479 02:10:09.720 --> 02:10:12.560 very specifically done right. None of this, none of this 2480 02:10:12.680 --> 02:10:15.640 was by accident. Every bit of it was a clue 2481 02:10:15.760 --> 02:10:17.600 or a key or something that was supposed to lead 2482 02:10:17.600 --> 02:10:20.840 you to the next clue or key or or a 2483 02:10:20.960 --> 02:10:24.239 bit of information or whatever the case is. So with 2484 02:10:24.319 --> 02:10:26.760 all that being said, we're going to another website here, 2485 02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:30.520 the Connortumbelson dot com Cicada thirty three oh one Mystery 2486 02:10:30.560 --> 02:10:33.680 Part three or I'm sorry, Puzzle three Solve part four. 2487 02:10:34.319 --> 02:10:37.359 So they talking about how they've been talking about this 2488 02:10:37.399 --> 02:10:38.760 on a couple of them. But this is where we 2489 02:10:38.800 --> 02:10:43.920 get into these. This is Premier Leabis and it all 2490 02:10:43.960 --> 02:10:46.359 looks like, you know, there's these women on either side 2491 02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:49.680 of it. These are the text lines anyway, and the 2492 02:10:49.720 --> 02:10:53.479 red part is supposed to be very important. Right now, 2493 02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:57.560 I've recently started appreciating the Foremost as a tool over 2494 02:10:57.800 --> 02:11:00.760 ben Walk recently, so we have to we can ask 2495 02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:04.560 Foremost to exact extract Jesus these four images. I am 2496 02:11:04.560 --> 02:11:07.239 messing up my reading right now. Now it appears we 2497 02:11:07.279 --> 02:11:09.680 have four more pages of leave a Premus book extracted. 2498 02:11:10.600 --> 02:11:14.239 Unless you can read runs, you're not gonna know what 2499 02:11:14.319 --> 02:11:14.840 to do with this. 2500 02:11:16.079 --> 02:11:18.760 I actually found a website that tells you, step by 2501 02:11:18.760 --> 02:11:21.600 step literally how to try and decipher it. They said, 2502 02:11:21.600 --> 02:11:23.840 pretty much, it's unlikely that you'll be able to do it, 2503 02:11:23.880 --> 02:11:25.439 because no one has really done it. 2504 02:11:25.760 --> 02:11:26.720 But they give you. 2505 02:11:26.680 --> 02:11:29.920 A website and it's like it's one of those encrypted 2506 02:11:29.960 --> 02:11:32.000 websites that like actually tell you step by step. 2507 02:11:32.000 --> 02:11:37.840 It's called uh it's git hub dot com, and it tells. 2508 02:11:37.560 --> 02:11:40.239 You step by step how to do the text files, 2509 02:11:40.239 --> 02:11:43.000 how to use various ones. It shows you all the 2510 02:11:43.159 --> 02:11:46.319 images of using different types of deciphering codes to be 2511 02:11:46.359 --> 02:11:47.640 able to try to decipher it. 2512 02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:50.720 But it said you're unlikely to be able to do it. 2513 02:11:51.399 --> 02:11:55.520 No, I agree, honestly. So we're not going to read 2514 02:11:55.560 --> 02:11:57.439 the entire article, but we are going to kind of 2515 02:11:57.479 --> 02:11:59.479 talk about some of these things here. So before we 2516 02:11:59.520 --> 02:12:01.840 go refra rcual on our magic squares from the previous 2517 02:12:01.880 --> 02:12:05.159 puzzle which they talk about magic squares. Matter of fact, 2518 02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:08.119 I'll just do this, create one tour hidden service that 2519 02:12:08.159 --> 02:12:12.479 can accept CGI file uploads. When this hidden service returns, 2520 02:12:12.640 --> 02:12:17.880 you can when you can accept input, post three post 2521 02:12:17.960 --> 02:12:20.560 the three magic squares and the URL to your tour 2522 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:24.000 hidden service here work alone. Good luck thirty three oh one, 2523 02:12:24.640 --> 02:12:27.119 and so these were this was the message that was 2524 02:12:27.159 --> 02:12:29.600 sent out to them. So before we go refresh on 2525 02:12:29.600 --> 02:12:31.720 our magic squares from the previous puzzles, we should go 2526 02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:34.239 figure out what these four pages of the books say. 2527 02:12:34.640 --> 02:12:36.920 We have quite a collection of scripts to run on 2528 02:12:37.119 --> 02:12:39.520 runs now, so we will try each of the following 2529 02:12:39.560 --> 02:12:44.199 and look for successful decoding. Direct translation, reverse translation xor 2530 02:12:44.239 --> 02:12:48.039 with puzzle to brute force visionaire key and brute force 2531 02:12:48.119 --> 02:12:50.680 column key. As we go down the list, it doesn't 2532 02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:53.239 take long as this is a direct translation of rooms 2533 02:12:53.279 --> 02:12:57.279 to English, which I'm gonna be honest with you, I 2534 02:12:57.359 --> 02:13:00.800 didn't know this. These right here is basically the loss 2535 02:13:00.880 --> 02:13:06.199 of divinity. That's what these rooms say. I would never 2536 02:13:06.279 --> 02:13:09.960 know that. I don't speak the language. But as you 2537 02:13:09.960 --> 02:13:12.319 can see, a direct translation started spelling out the loss 2538 02:13:12.359 --> 02:13:14.640 of divinity. Now we have to remind ourselves of what 2539 02:13:14.720 --> 02:13:17.960 this translation looks. That this why this looks a bit 2540 02:13:18.039 --> 02:13:21.800 odd the lack of a better words. Lightning bolt Roun 2541 02:13:21.960 --> 02:13:25.359 has either a S or Z as a value letter value. 2542 02:13:26.000 --> 02:13:31.239 The letter V has no corresponding rune. So we have 2543 02:13:31.279 --> 02:13:34.439 to kind of infer some things throughout. Do not edit 2544 02:13:34.520 --> 02:13:37.319 or change this book or the message contained within either 2545 02:13:37.319 --> 02:13:40.479 the words or their numbers, for all is sacred. So 2546 02:13:40.600 --> 02:13:42.439 as we go forward, we probably have to treat the 2547 02:13:42.439 --> 02:13:45.560 message exactly as they are decoded, even if it doesn't 2548 02:13:45.600 --> 02:13:49.039 look exactly like perfect English. As you continue going through 2549 02:13:49.079 --> 02:13:52.439 these four pages are they all are a simple direct 2550 02:13:52.439 --> 02:13:55.840 translation which ends up forming this story titled The Loss 2551 02:13:55.880 --> 02:13:59.279 of Divinity, which we will correct into proper spelling for 2552 02:13:59.319 --> 02:14:02.199 the sake of reading it. Now. Remember we don't have 2553 02:14:02.199 --> 02:14:04.680 a letter V in the translation, so the proper spelling 2554 02:14:04.720 --> 02:14:08.199 would be do we unity, which may or may not 2555 02:14:08.399 --> 02:14:11.640 be become relevant. Don't really know that at the time, 2556 02:14:12.520 --> 02:14:16.359 which also I find interesting. In Old English to modern English, 2557 02:14:16.680 --> 02:14:19.680 the U and the V were used interchangeably as a 2558 02:14:19.680 --> 02:14:23.680 matter of fact, which like, there's a reason why W 2559 02:14:24.319 --> 02:14:26.399 as a word even though it's written out as a 2560 02:14:26.439 --> 02:14:31.319 double V. And in other languages, like in French, it's dubleva, 2561 02:14:32.000 --> 02:14:34.279 which is V. It's double V, that's how they call it. 2562 02:14:34.319 --> 02:14:36.880 But in the English language we call it double U 2563 02:14:37.600 --> 02:14:41.239 even though there's not us in it. S's and f's 2564 02:14:41.239 --> 02:14:44.279 were also kind of interchanged weirdly and wildly at the 2565 02:14:44.319 --> 02:14:46.760 turn of the sixteen hundreds and things like this, So 2566 02:14:46.840 --> 02:14:49.600 I mean it's there's there's some sort of precedence to that. 2567 02:14:50.680 --> 02:14:52.960 I feel like they missed the key component of that 2568 02:14:53.039 --> 02:14:56.479 message though, because like above that message, there's another message 2569 02:14:56.479 --> 02:14:58.520 and it's like, so it's all one message and it 2570 02:14:58.560 --> 02:15:02.359 says a warning, believe nothing from the book except what 2571 02:15:02.560 --> 02:15:03.079 you know. 2572 02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:05.600 Sorry, it's it's actually spelled weird, so I have to 2573 02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:06.399 look for it. 2574 02:15:06.880 --> 02:15:10.800 Except what you know to be true, test the knowledge, 2575 02:15:10.920 --> 02:15:14.079 find your truth, experience your death. Do not edit and 2576 02:15:14.119 --> 02:15:15.840 do not change this book and the rest of what 2577 02:15:15.920 --> 02:15:17.840 you read, but experience your death. 2578 02:15:18.119 --> 02:15:21.560 And it's a warning. That's the first thing in the book. 2579 02:15:22.399 --> 02:15:25.800 Book. But that's from the book itself, right, like the 2580 02:15:25.800 --> 02:15:26.600 liber Primus. 2581 02:15:27.279 --> 02:15:31.119 Yes, that's exactly from the book itself, and it's it's 2582 02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:33.640 the first thing that they that you that you read. 2583 02:15:33.680 --> 02:15:36.119 It's the first thing that they deciphered. Believe nothing from 2584 02:15:36.159 --> 02:15:38.720 this book except what you know to be true. Test 2585 02:15:38.760 --> 02:15:41.359 the knowledge, find your truth, experience your death. 2586 02:15:41.720 --> 02:15:43.479 But that's the point though it's the same as like 2587 02:15:43.520 --> 02:15:46.000 Crowley's book. They weren't wanting people to read Crowley and 2588 02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:47.920 apply them to their lives. They were using it as 2589 02:15:47.920 --> 02:15:50.239 a code to get to the next level. And I 2590 02:15:50.239 --> 02:15:52.039 think that that's also what this was being used for. 2591 02:15:52.119 --> 02:15:54.760 They were using a book that's very obscure and very 2592 02:15:54.920 --> 02:15:57.319 esoteric in all these things. But it's not like the 2593 02:15:57.359 --> 02:15:59.920 information contained within the book is important. It's about the 2594 02:16:00.119 --> 02:16:02.199 code that you're able to extrapolate from it to get 2595 02:16:02.239 --> 02:16:03.399 you to the next clue. 2596 02:16:04.560 --> 02:16:06.000 I think I disagree. 2597 02:16:06.039 --> 02:16:09.479 I think whatever is inside that book is completely important. 2598 02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:11.800 But we haven't even been able to decode the entire 2599 02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:14.039 book even into regular reading. 2600 02:16:14.760 --> 02:16:17.880 Well, most of what I've been seeing, as it said that, like, 2601 02:16:17.960 --> 02:16:24.039 it seems like it's waiting, like whoever is like helping along, 2602 02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:27.840 This is waiting to see, like they're dropping enough knowledge 2603 02:16:27.880 --> 02:16:30.960 here and there to be able to decipher it as it. 2604 02:16:31.119 --> 02:16:31.960 Needs to happen. 2605 02:16:32.600 --> 02:16:33.920 Okay, fair, I. 2606 02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:36.799 Think there's something inside of that book that will change 2607 02:16:36.799 --> 02:16:39.040 the course of humanity possibly. 2608 02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:43.559 But remember they talked about these magic squares, right, So 2609 02:16:43.600 --> 02:16:46.040 we continue it here while we discovered the meaning behind 2610 02:16:46.040 --> 02:16:49.079 those four pages the onion we originally obtained those images 2611 02:16:49.120 --> 02:16:52.200 from updated. This had become a pattern at this point 2612 02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:54.399 where an onion was discovered, it will go offline for 2613 02:16:54.440 --> 02:16:57.040 five to seven days and come back online changed. So 2614 02:16:57.120 --> 02:16:59.399 these are the magic squares that we are talking about here. 2615 02:17:00.000 --> 02:17:02.920 Website had a few instructions attached. Please paste the magic 2616 02:17:02.920 --> 02:17:06.319 squares into the appropriate text areas below, then provide the 2617 02:17:06.559 --> 02:17:09.399 URL to your tour hidden service. The path to your 2618 02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:13.959 CGI script will which accepts uploads should be cgi bin upload, 2619 02:17:14.239 --> 02:17:17.639 and the HTML from input which accepts file uploads should 2620 02:17:17.639 --> 02:17:21.159 be named file. Additionally, please generate a g n upg 2621 02:17:21.360 --> 02:17:24.079 key pair and place the public key in the local 2622 02:17:24.200 --> 02:17:27.399 location key acs. Okay, so now we get into the 2623 02:17:27.440 --> 02:17:29.760 new numbers of it. So as as much as the 2624 02:17:29.799 --> 02:17:32.959 book was to tell us about the squares, it actually 2625 02:17:33.079 --> 02:17:37.040 leads more towards thirty three oh one, it doesn't actually 2626 02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:39.159 have to do what the information contained within the books. 2627 02:17:39.680 --> 02:17:41.680 So we have to generate three different magic squares with 2628 02:17:41.719 --> 02:17:44.680 the values ten, thirty three twice and thirty three oh 2629 02:17:44.760 --> 02:17:47.239 one at either a seven x seven or five y 2630 02:17:47.319 --> 02:17:50.000 five grid. Thankfully I recently bloged about the magic squares 2631 02:17:50.000 --> 02:17:52.799 in our previous works. So bye ba bab. We have 2632 02:17:53.319 --> 02:17:55.479 to host and build a tour website and this is 2633 02:17:55.479 --> 02:17:58.200 what comes up. So the question is whether we have 2634 02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:01.399 to painfully generate these or discover them with them previous puzzles. 2635 02:18:01.559 --> 02:18:04.079 We know way back in part two, we found a 2636 02:18:04.079 --> 02:18:07.319 magic square that was utilized for decoding a page. Right, 2637 02:18:07.799 --> 02:18:10.319 this is a perfectly valid magic square that sums to 2638 02:18:10.559 --> 02:18:14.239 eleven oh three on every row column diagonalm so I'm 2639 02:18:14.319 --> 02:18:17.200 leaning toward going back through all media assets from the 2640 02:18:17.239 --> 02:18:21.799 previous puzzles to discover more squares. Thankfully, within a few 2641 02:18:21.840 --> 02:18:25.200 weeks between blog posts a bit of renewed energy to 2642 02:18:25.319 --> 02:18:28.680 try and again, and it didn't take long. I just 2643 02:18:28.680 --> 02:18:31.399 popped the image into a forensic beta and message with 2644 02:18:31.399 --> 02:18:33.920 a JPEG error correction scale. Once I started seeing the 2645 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:39.000 Cicada logo on Personal and Person, Rasputant comes into focus. 2646 02:18:39.159 --> 02:18:41.600 I just messed with the sliders and the numbers appeared. 2647 02:18:42.079 --> 02:18:44.520 So this is the image. So once you did all 2648 02:18:44.520 --> 02:18:47.280 these things, you went to Premier Libis, you got these numbers, 2649 02:18:47.280 --> 02:18:49.399 you made the magic squares, and you made a tore browser. 2650 02:18:49.920 --> 02:18:51.879 This image would come up and you had to mess 2651 02:18:51.920 --> 02:18:53.719 with the color schemes, you had to mess with the 2652 02:18:53.719 --> 02:18:57.319 brightness and all this an image of Rasputant Cicada and 2653 02:18:57.399 --> 02:19:00.799 these numbers showed up. So again I don't I don't 2654 02:19:00.799 --> 02:19:03.079 think it actually had to do with Premier Lebis. I 2655 02:19:03.079 --> 02:19:05.399 don't think it actually had to do with Crowley. I 2656 02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:08.159 don't think it actually had to do with Gibson, although 2657 02:19:08.200 --> 02:19:11.319 it might everything is connected. I think that that was 2658 02:19:11.319 --> 02:19:12.920 more of a stepping stone to get you to the 2659 02:19:12.959 --> 02:19:15.719 next spot. I could be wrong, but this is a 2660 02:19:15.799 --> 02:19:19.239 more zoomed in image of it, and it's I mean, 2661 02:19:19.920 --> 02:19:23.120 I wouldn't even think to do this if I been 2662 02:19:23.159 --> 02:19:25.120 given this image, I'm not gonna start messing with the 2663 02:19:25.159 --> 02:19:28.559 sliders to find brightness and contrast to get these things. 2664 02:19:30.040 --> 02:19:31.959 So, yeah, you gotta be really smart. 2665 02:19:32.479 --> 02:19:35.600 So this goo ahead, No go ahead. I was just 2666 02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:36.319 gonna keep reading. 2667 02:19:36.959 --> 02:19:37.120 Yeah. 2668 02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:40.680 It says that this results in a left column of 2669 02:19:41.079 --> 02:19:43.399 numbers and a right column of numbers. Sadly, this does 2670 02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:47.120 not appear to be a full magic square, and no 2671 02:19:47.239 --> 02:19:50.399 more numbers could be discovered. However, if you sum the 2672 02:19:50.479 --> 02:19:53.840 left column and the right column, they equal ten thirty 2673 02:19:53.840 --> 02:19:57.319 three and thirty three oh one, mirror images of each other. 2674 02:19:58.360 --> 02:20:00.639 We know we already have a five y five square 2675 02:20:00.760 --> 02:20:03.239 that sums two ten thirty three, and the left column 2676 02:20:03.280 --> 02:20:05.559 could be a single column or row of the seven 2677 02:20:05.680 --> 02:20:07.680 x seven square, and likewise, the right column sums two 2678 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:10.079 thirty three oh one and could represent the five by 2679 02:20:10.120 --> 02:20:12.920 five magic square that psalms thirty three oh one. But anyway, 2680 02:20:12.959 --> 02:20:15.360 continuing on here, so if we look back at the 2681 02:20:15.559 --> 02:20:18.799 end at all the assets from the puzzle, we had 2682 02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:23.280 an image of Godell's incompetentness theorem or incompleteness theorem. An 2683 02:20:23.399 --> 02:20:27.520 I mc esher a three second audio clip of Box 2684 02:20:27.600 --> 02:20:32.920 Trio Sonata, the photo above, and an MP three song Interconnectedness, 2685 02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:35.799 which you could still find online right now Interconnectedness by 2686 02:20:35.879 --> 02:20:39.639 thirty three oh one. So the first three assets are 2687 02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:42.079 so tiny, and we already packed in an image, so 2688 02:20:42.200 --> 02:20:44.520 there was probably not much luck of finding some hidden 2689 02:20:44.559 --> 02:20:47.639 magic squares within those. We've already ripped apart the photo above, 2690 02:20:47.680 --> 02:20:50.479 So I believe the missing is something in the audio file, 2691 02:20:50.879 --> 02:20:53.600 which a lot of people agreed with that. By the way, 2692 02:20:54.200 --> 02:20:57.120 with the initial release date included, I tossed out any 2693 02:20:57.639 --> 02:21:00.000 tool that was built after the third puzzle was release 2694 02:21:00.040 --> 02:21:02.959 East January twenty fourteen, and it wouldn't make sense to 2695 02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:06.520 use a stenograph scenography tool that didn't exist at the 2696 02:21:06.559 --> 02:21:08.879 time of the Cicada puzzles. I'll attempt to use this 2697 02:21:08.920 --> 02:21:12.760 latest version. So basically, this dude is documenting his walk 2698 02:21:13.399 --> 02:21:17.719 in trying to figure all this shit out. There we go. 2699 02:21:17.879 --> 02:21:20.239 This is a clip of the audio file itself. I 2700 02:21:20.239 --> 02:21:21.559 want to say, if I coul zoom in and read 2701 02:21:21.600 --> 02:21:27.159 what the hell that says? One secret found or yeah, okay, 2702 02:21:27.399 --> 02:21:33.680 secret found on word ABCD that was That was the clue, 2703 02:21:34.559 --> 02:21:36.760 and he had to use all these tools within the 2704 02:21:36.799 --> 02:21:44.840 audio files to find that this message that's this is I. 2705 02:21:44.799 --> 02:21:47.520 Don't even understand how like they're so smart. 2706 02:21:48.639 --> 02:21:52.200 This is scary levels of smart. But yeah, I agree, 2707 02:21:52.399 --> 02:21:54.040 this is alright. Oh, let's see if we could play 2708 02:21:54.079 --> 02:21:57.159 it here. So I loaded the song into Sonic Visualizer 2709 02:21:57.520 --> 02:22:01.399 and was personally lost beyond belief. Oh let's check it out. 2710 02:22:05.920 --> 02:22:06.639 I can't hear it. 2711 02:22:06.760 --> 02:22:13.639 Neither can the audio's up. But again, it wasn't about 2712 02:22:13.680 --> 02:22:14.120 the song. 2713 02:22:16.040 --> 02:22:17.399 See I don't I don't know. 2714 02:22:17.479 --> 02:22:21.600 I've been building and formulating my theory, so I'm ready. 2715 02:22:21.280 --> 02:22:26.120 To I hear you. And again there's no incorrect theories here. 2716 02:22:26.280 --> 02:22:31.360 Nothing is concrete here. My knowledge using waveform spectagrams and 2717 02:22:31.559 --> 02:22:34.399 melodic frequency graphing was next to zero, so I had 2718 02:22:34.399 --> 02:22:37.079 to spend some time learning techniques for discovering information hidden 2719 02:22:37.079 --> 02:22:39.280 within a song. With a bit of research, I went 2720 02:22:39.280 --> 02:22:42.159 through the following spectrogram analysis. I was looking for some 2721 02:22:42.200 --> 02:22:45.719 messenger code hidden within the spectagram waveform analysis. I was 2722 02:22:45.760 --> 02:22:48.000 looking for anomalies in the waveform that might suggest some 2723 02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:51.399 data within success thrives in the world of Sonic Visualizer, 2724 02:22:51.520 --> 02:22:54.200 when you have an original audio file and one you 2725 02:22:54.239 --> 02:22:57.959 think is modified to compare against this song produced by Cicada, 2726 02:22:57.959 --> 02:22:59.719 As far as I can tell, as an original creation, 2727 02:23:00.040 --> 02:23:02.280 we have nothing to compare it against. The more I 2728 02:23:02.319 --> 02:23:04.959 researched the audio via Sonic, the more I realized that 2729 02:23:05.000 --> 02:23:06.879 Kada thirty three to oh one would not have made 2730 02:23:06.959 --> 02:23:09.360 something so easy to spot in a tool. So Kata 2731 02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:13.239 puzzles are resistant to brute forcing generally, so my guess, 2732 02:23:13.319 --> 02:23:16.360 if anything is packed in this file, we haven't found it. 2733 02:23:16.639 --> 02:23:19.239 This tool Sonic has gone through nearly twenty versions since 2734 02:23:19.239 --> 02:23:23.520 twenty thirteen, but I'm under the belief the tools visualizing 2735 02:23:23.600 --> 02:23:26.159 data have only improved, so I'll ignored the older versions 2736 02:23:26.200 --> 02:23:30.040 and just move on, all right, So continue on. We're 2737 02:23:30.040 --> 02:23:33.280 skipping way ahead in this because my god, he's talking 2738 02:23:33.319 --> 02:23:35.000 about things that I feel like most people have no 2739 02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:38.040 idea what it's about. So anyway, so I decided to 2740 02:23:38.079 --> 02:23:40.840 try again using an older version of open Puff version 2741 02:23:40.840 --> 02:23:43.840 four point zero and run through my possible passwords again. 2742 02:23:43.920 --> 02:23:47.319 To my surprise, I hit thirty three oh one one 2743 02:23:47.440 --> 02:23:50.239 zero three three with a fifty percent bit selection and 2744 02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:52.600 saw a different message than ever before. I couldn't believe 2745 02:23:52.600 --> 02:23:55.079 the password was in front of my face the entire time. 2746 02:23:55.680 --> 02:23:58.319 As I hit okay, another dialogue popped up with the 2747 02:23:58.360 --> 02:24:02.959 details on what it discovered. Hidden file name magic square 2748 02:24:03.000 --> 02:24:06.680 text or it says beginner report hidden file magic square 2749 02:24:06.719 --> 02:24:10.200 dot text. Bite size is seven hundred and forty five bytes. 2750 02:24:11.159 --> 02:24:13.479 I don't know what that letter's supposed to be into report. 2751 02:24:14.040 --> 02:24:17.680 Success was finally here a hidden file called magic square 2752 02:24:17.719 --> 02:24:21.959 dot text was hidden within the interconnected MP three. So 2753 02:24:22.120 --> 02:24:25.000 hidden within that song when you knew what to plug 2754 02:24:25.079 --> 02:24:27.799 up and want to look into it, here a text 2755 02:24:27.840 --> 02:24:33.959 box was able to be extrapolated Magic squares. I don't 2756 02:24:33.959 --> 02:24:36.200 even know, like what to make of that. You're muted. 2757 02:24:37.760 --> 02:24:39.399 I was like, you're muted at this moment. 2758 02:24:39.440 --> 02:24:43.000 Sorry, yeah, no, I said, I don't even know what 2759 02:24:43.120 --> 02:24:44.760 to think about that like that. I would die if 2760 02:24:44.760 --> 02:24:46.319 this was like someone like you had to solve it 2761 02:24:46.440 --> 02:24:47.520 or you die kind of vibe. 2762 02:24:47.840 --> 02:24:49.319 No, I'm smart enough for this. 2763 02:24:49.479 --> 02:24:52.719 But but then magic squares, being that he had already 2764 02:24:52.760 --> 02:24:56.879 put in these numbers from these magic squares earlier, so 2765 02:24:57.520 --> 02:24:59.840 he was able to go there in this eighty one 2766 02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:02.639 seven fifteen, all this stuff and seven was the last 2767 02:25:02.639 --> 02:25:06.360 column in the second magic square. All these other numbers 2768 02:25:06.600 --> 02:25:09.360 was the first column reversed in the first magic square. 2769 02:25:09.680 --> 02:25:12.159 So now we had the magic squares discovered, and we 2770 02:25:12.159 --> 02:25:15.639 had to build a tour website that Sikata would presumably 2771 02:25:15.680 --> 02:25:20.680 communicate with us through which they did. These are the 2772 02:25:20.680 --> 02:25:24.879 file locators. This is what they were communicating like carefully, 2773 02:25:24.920 --> 02:25:27.559 the magic squares were pasted into their respective box in 2774 02:25:27.600 --> 02:25:31.000 the URL to create the onion was added and submit 2775 02:25:31.239 --> 02:25:34.520 was clicked. Instead of the generic unsuccessful page, we were 2776 02:25:34.559 --> 02:25:38.159 presented with a simple response page with three more book pages. 2777 02:25:39.120 --> 02:25:42.120 It's that's what I'm saying. It's it's it's more of 2778 02:25:42.159 --> 02:25:44.280 the premier lebas And you have to use this to 2779 02:25:44.319 --> 02:25:46.399 go back and do all this again to find more info, 2780 02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:49.200 to find more intel and all these things. This whole 2781 02:25:49.239 --> 02:25:51.680 page right, and then these numbers at the bottom. I 2782 02:25:51.760 --> 02:25:54.760 ran each stream through a basic Translate reverse and surprising, 2783 02:25:54.799 --> 02:26:02.719 the last page decoded successfully. I see and instruction. 2784 02:26:05.559 --> 02:26:12.959 See an instruction in what we thing all? I think 2785 02:26:13.159 --> 02:26:14.719 I think I have it actually pulled up. 2786 02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:19.440 Let me see all things. Discover truth inside yourself, follow 2787 02:26:19.479 --> 02:26:20.000 your truth. 2788 02:26:20.719 --> 02:26:24.719 I have this one that says welcome welcome, welcome, pilgrim 2789 02:26:24.760 --> 02:26:27.120 to the great journey toward the end of all things. 2790 02:26:27.200 --> 02:26:30.319 It is not an easy trip for those who find 2791 02:26:30.360 --> 02:26:33.120 their way here, it is a necessary one. Along the 2792 02:26:33.120 --> 02:26:36.040 way you will find to find an end to all 2793 02:26:36.040 --> 02:26:41.280 struggle in suffering, your innocence, your illusions, your certainty, and 2794 02:26:41.319 --> 02:26:45.879 your reality. Ultimately, your will discover an end too self. 2795 02:26:46.000 --> 02:26:50.719 And it is through this pilgrim pil pilgrimage that we 2796 02:26:50.840 --> 02:26:54.639 shape ourselves in our realities, journey deep within reality, and 2797 02:26:54.639 --> 02:26:58.920 will arrive outside the lice that interstar. It is only 2798 02:26:58.959 --> 02:27:02.520 through going with in that we may emerge in wisdom. 2799 02:27:02.559 --> 02:27:03.920 I'm sorry, I thought I had that part. 2800 02:27:04.079 --> 02:27:05.719 No, no, no, you're good A bit of I have. 2801 02:27:05.879 --> 02:27:08.159 Actually, I pulled up a website that has a lot 2802 02:27:08.239 --> 02:27:10.840 of all the deciphers. 2803 02:27:10.159 --> 02:27:15.000 Of this word that we couldn't figure. That's question all things, 2804 02:27:15.719 --> 02:27:18.920 Question all things, it says. The audio occurs with what 2805 02:27:19.000 --> 02:27:21.159 is clearly question all things. You can see the only 2806 02:27:21.639 --> 02:27:24.600 option we have is C or K when we expected 2807 02:27:24.600 --> 02:27:29.280 a Q. So that's supposed to be question in all things. 2808 02:27:30.680 --> 02:27:31.639 Okay, that's right. 2809 02:27:31.799 --> 02:27:38.799 So basically, uh an instruction question all things, truth inside 2810 02:27:38.920 --> 02:27:41.760 or discover. Yeah, so that's supposed to be discover because 2811 02:27:41.799 --> 02:27:45.680 the U and the V right. Discover truth inside yourself, 2812 02:27:45.879 --> 02:27:53.159 follow your truth, impose nothing on others. Know this. So 2813 02:27:53.440 --> 02:27:56.600 again an instruction question all things. Discover truth inside yourself, 2814 02:27:56.639 --> 02:27:59.200 follow your truth, impose nothing on others. Know this, and 2815 02:27:59.239 --> 02:28:02.680 then a number. See all of that was extrapolated off 2816 02:28:02.719 --> 02:28:06.559 of a tour browser, off of a audio clip, off 2817 02:28:06.639 --> 02:28:10.399 of the liber Primus, off of this other thing. It 2818 02:28:10.559 --> 02:28:12.920 all it's just one thing after another after another after another. 2819 02:28:12.959 --> 02:28:14.719 So we're scrolling all the way down here because the 2820 02:28:14.799 --> 02:28:17.040 dude goes way more in depth with it, and he 2821 02:28:17.159 --> 02:28:19.559 used so many different keys to decode this. So right 2822 02:28:19.600 --> 02:28:22.520 here we have a chart the original the original runic character, 2823 02:28:23.079 --> 02:28:25.920 the original runic character index of what the numbers were 2824 02:28:25.959 --> 02:28:28.239 supposed to mean. Then when you plug that into a 2825 02:28:28.319 --> 02:28:33.799 visionaire key, uh gomatria primus visionaire index, a shifted runic sequence, 2826 02:28:33.840 --> 02:28:37.159 and then the shifted runic character. And that's how he 2827 02:28:37.239 --> 02:28:39.360 was able to decode and decipher all of this shit, 2828 02:28:39.799 --> 02:28:41.760 which then led him back to the book and there 2829 02:28:41.799 --> 02:28:45.319 was more things, and it's let's see if they're going 2830 02:28:45.360 --> 02:28:48.799 to break this down. So a Cohen during so with 2831 02:28:48.840 --> 02:28:50.840 a bit of cleanup I could clean up the entire 2832 02:28:50.879 --> 02:28:55.200 three pages into one solid story long way he got here, 2833 02:28:55.239 --> 02:28:58.600 but this, let's just get here a cone. During a lesson, 2834 02:28:58.639 --> 02:29:02.319 the master explained the I. The I is the voice 2835 02:29:02.360 --> 02:29:05.680 of the circumference, he said. When asked by a student 2836 02:29:05.719 --> 02:29:07.799 to explain what he meant, the master said, it is 2837 02:29:07.840 --> 02:29:10.639 a voice inside your head. I don't have a voice 2838 02:29:10.639 --> 02:29:12.760 in my head, thought the student, and he raised his 2839 02:29:12.840 --> 02:29:15.399 hand to tell the master. The master stopped the student 2840 02:29:15.399 --> 02:29:17.600 and said, the voice that just said that you don't 2841 02:29:17.600 --> 02:29:19.959 have a voice in your head is the eye. And 2842 02:29:20.000 --> 02:29:24.040 the students were enlightened an instruction question all things. Discover 2843 02:29:24.120 --> 02:29:26.840 the truth inside yourself, follow the truth, impose nothing on others. 2844 02:29:27.000 --> 02:29:30.000 Know this and the number sequence. So that was the 2845 02:29:30.159 --> 02:29:33.639 entire thing from this, and he goes more in depth 2846 02:29:33.680 --> 02:29:35.760 with a lot of it. But yeah, this dude put 2847 02:29:35.799 --> 02:29:38.520 in the legwork to find the answer to these puzzles. 2848 02:29:38.559 --> 02:29:41.639 Good God, that's crazy. 2849 02:29:42.319 --> 02:29:45.680 So the inn Star Emergence was another audio clip that 2850 02:29:45.760 --> 02:29:48.239 was used, and I do believe you could find the 2851 02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:51.040 sound bite still on YouTube if you know where to look. 2852 02:29:51.680 --> 02:29:56.200 So this is liber Primus of the Cicada thirty three 2853 02:29:56.239 --> 02:30:01.920 oh one Z library and for those that don't know. Wait, wise, 2854 02:30:01.959 --> 02:30:04.239 this is not loading. There we go, now, it's loading. 2855 02:30:04.280 --> 02:30:08.799 It's taking a minute. Chapter one the infus and unless 2856 02:30:08.799 --> 02:30:11.760 you can read Nordic ruins, you're gonna be shit out 2857 02:30:11.760 --> 02:30:13.559 of luck on trying to figure out what the hell 2858 02:30:13.559 --> 02:30:18.399 they're trying to say here, honestly. But there's more. There's 2859 02:30:18.479 --> 02:30:21.159 these pages and pages and pages, and there's a cicada 2860 02:30:21.399 --> 02:30:24.200 at the bottom of this one. Right then you have 2861 02:30:24.319 --> 02:30:27.440 these Some letters are read, that's very significant, some are not. 2862 02:30:28.120 --> 02:30:30.000 Some have the women standing on the side of them, 2863 02:30:30.040 --> 02:30:33.959 some just have the little fancy swirlly marks. But this 2864 02:30:34.200 --> 02:30:37.479 is the entirety of the Premier or liber Primus book. 2865 02:30:37.799 --> 02:30:40.399 These dots, I feel like those dots are also significant. 2866 02:30:41.479 --> 02:30:44.360 Everything is significant, Everything is significant. 2867 02:30:44.920 --> 02:30:48.440 We got a tree, what's this one gonna be? 2868 02:30:49.159 --> 02:30:52.200 Which is not uncommon considering mythology and the tree of 2869 02:30:52.239 --> 02:30:54.959 life and all the different things that revolve around trees. 2870 02:30:55.600 --> 02:30:57.600 Which that also makes sense because if you're to cut 2871 02:30:57.600 --> 02:30:59.520 this in half, that's one way up. That's when we're 2872 02:30:59.520 --> 02:31:02.399 going down, like the roots and the limbs of the tree. 2873 02:31:04.040 --> 02:31:07.479 But yeah, so this is the book in question. This 2874 02:31:07.559 --> 02:31:10.239 one has a flying cicada and a tree. This one's 2875 02:31:10.239 --> 02:31:14.840 got read an infinity symbol. Again, good cult members, If 2876 02:31:14.840 --> 02:31:16.959 you're not seeing this on your screen right now, you 2877 02:31:17.000 --> 02:31:19.559 really do need a condopatreon dot com slash CULTU conspiracy 2878 02:31:19.559 --> 02:31:22.040 podcast to see what the hell we are talking about 2879 02:31:22.079 --> 02:31:25.639 on this anyway, moving on, moving on, I just wanted 2880 02:31:25.639 --> 02:31:27.680 to show that, yes, liber Primus is still a thing 2881 02:31:27.719 --> 02:31:30.280 that you can go to right now. You can still 2882 02:31:30.319 --> 02:31:32.360 search it up and if you can read runes then 2883 02:31:32.440 --> 02:31:34.719 by all means get after it homing. But even those 2884 02:31:34.760 --> 02:31:37.799 that can read Nordic runs, they're saying that this isn't 2885 02:31:38.040 --> 02:31:41.840 an indelible sentence. This is a code. There's ciphers, there's 2886 02:31:42.159 --> 02:31:45.040 ways that it's written that don't make sense in regular 2887 02:31:45.079 --> 02:31:48.680 speech pattern, and it's done that way specifically apparently. Now 2888 02:31:48.719 --> 02:31:53.799 I don't know if Cicada made this, or if this 2889 02:31:53.879 --> 02:31:56.319 is some sort of an old text that dates way 2890 02:31:56.319 --> 02:31:58.639 way way back and then Cicada is using it for 2891 02:31:58.680 --> 02:32:02.159 this purpose or what. I don't know, But I mean, 2892 02:32:02.239 --> 02:32:04.479 at this point, anybody's guess is as good as anybody 2893 02:32:04.520 --> 02:32:08.520 else is here. So this is uh, the leber Primus 2894 02:32:08.799 --> 02:32:13.799 on is uncovering Cicada dot fandom. This is what you 2895 02:32:13.799 --> 02:32:15.479 were talking about believe nothing from this book. 2896 02:32:17.000 --> 02:32:19.479 Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a lot of stuff. It 2897 02:32:19.520 --> 02:32:22.680 was discovered in two thousand and eight or twenty eighteen. 2898 02:32:23.280 --> 02:32:25.799 So that was after the cicada stuff had already been 2899 02:32:25.840 --> 02:32:26.319 wrapped up. 2900 02:32:27.319 --> 02:32:27.719 Mm hmm. 2901 02:32:27.959 --> 02:32:33.600 Okay. So the warning we already read that one do 2902 02:32:33.719 --> 02:32:35.639 not change this book or digital. 2903 02:32:35.719 --> 02:32:39.799 The digital book emerged in the puzzles in twenty fourteen. 2904 02:32:40.120 --> 02:32:43.719 Yeah, first book. So I'm like, let me, let me 2905 02:32:43.760 --> 02:32:44.920 double check because it's. 2906 02:32:44.799 --> 02:32:48.159 Said that this isn't ancient Nordic literature. 2907 02:32:49.120 --> 02:32:52.559 I know, but it said Google. I'm looking at Google. Yeah, 2908 02:32:52.639 --> 02:32:54.520 I'm like, that doesn't make any sense to me. Why 2909 02:32:54.639 --> 02:32:58.639 that would be, uh, why that would be saying that 2910 02:32:58.719 --> 02:33:02.200 it was found It was discovered in twenty eighteen. 2911 02:33:02.399 --> 02:33:05.200 So I learned to you. So I will read the 2912 02:33:05.200 --> 02:33:08.120 pages that had been deciphered and we'll just see what 2913 02:33:08.159 --> 02:33:10.079 we got here. So we already talked about the warning. 2914 02:33:10.239 --> 02:33:14.959 The next one is welcome. Welcome, Pilgrim, Pilgrim, piglmm. Welcome 2915 02:33:14.959 --> 02:33:17.639 pilgrim to the great journey toward the end of all things. 2916 02:33:18.000 --> 02:33:19.760 This is not an easy trip, but for those who 2917 02:33:19.840 --> 02:33:22.920 find their way here, it is a necessary one. Along 2918 02:33:22.959 --> 02:33:24.879 the way, you will find an end to all struggle 2919 02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:29.959 and suffering, your innocence, your illusions, your certainty, and your reality. Ultimately, 2920 02:33:30.000 --> 02:33:34.120 you will discover an end to self. And it's through 2921 02:33:34.120 --> 02:33:37.959 this pilgrimage that we shape ourselves and our realities. Journey 2922 02:33:38.000 --> 02:33:41.559 deep within and you will arrive outside like the in star. 2923 02:33:41.920 --> 02:33:45.600 It is only through going within that we may emerge wisdom. 2924 02:33:46.040 --> 02:33:49.120 You are a being unto yourself. You are a law 2925 02:33:49.200 --> 02:33:53.399 unto yourself. Each intelligence is holy, for all that lives 2926 02:33:53.479 --> 02:33:58.360 is holy, an instruction command for your own self some wisdom. 2927 02:33:58.680 --> 02:34:03.280 The primes are sacred, the tocient function is sacred. All 2928 02:34:03.360 --> 02:34:06.360 things should be encrypted. Know this, and then that's the 2929 02:34:06.399 --> 02:34:10.760 number sequence right there, right, And we already talked about 2930 02:34:10.760 --> 02:34:12.639 a cohen A man decided to go on to study 2931 02:34:12.639 --> 02:34:16.559 with a master. We read that one already. Let's see. 2932 02:34:16.600 --> 02:34:19.239 The man thought for a moment, replied, oh wait. 2933 02:34:19.120 --> 02:34:21.399 Wait, wait wait wait, yeah, so that's actually a really 2934 02:34:21.399 --> 02:34:22.040 interesting part. 2935 02:34:22.079 --> 02:34:23.719 I have it highlighted from my theory. 2936 02:34:24.000 --> 02:34:26.639 Actually, so a cohen A man decided to go on 2937 02:34:26.680 --> 02:34:29.200 to study with a master. He went to the door 2938 02:34:29.280 --> 02:34:32.719 of the master. Who are you who wishes to study here? 2939 02:34:32.799 --> 02:34:35.600 Ask the master? The student told the master his name. 2940 02:34:36.040 --> 02:34:38.120 That is not who you are, That is only what 2941 02:34:38.159 --> 02:34:41.760 you are called. Who you are? Or who are you? 2942 02:34:42.239 --> 02:34:45.600 Who wishes to study here? He asked again. The man 2943 02:34:45.639 --> 02:34:47.920 thought for a moment and replied, I am a professor. 2944 02:34:48.600 --> 02:34:51.399 That is what you do, not who you are, replied 2945 02:34:51.399 --> 02:34:53.520 the master. This reminds me of that scene from Anger Management. 2946 02:34:55.120 --> 02:34:55.959 You know what I'm talking about. 2947 02:34:56.200 --> 02:34:56.920 Yeah, yeah, I do. 2948 02:34:58.760 --> 02:35:00.479 That is what you do, not who you are, replied 2949 02:35:00.479 --> 02:35:03.840 the master. Who are you who wishes to study here? Confuse? 2950 02:35:03.920 --> 02:35:06.399 The man thought some more. Finally he answered, I am 2951 02:35:06.399 --> 02:35:09.680 a human being that is only your species, not who 2952 02:35:09.760 --> 02:35:12.000 you are. Who are you that wishes to study here? 2953 02:35:12.040 --> 02:35:14.319 The master asked again. After a moment of thought, the 2954 02:35:14.319 --> 02:35:17.520 professor replied, I am a conscious inhabiting or I am 2955 02:35:17.600 --> 02:35:22.520 a consciousness inhabiting an arbitrary body. That is merely what 2956 02:35:22.719 --> 02:35:26.200 you are, not who you are. Who are you who 2957 02:35:26.280 --> 02:35:29.959 wishes to study here? The man was getting irritated. I am, 2958 02:35:30.319 --> 02:35:33.159 he stated, but he could not think of anything else 2959 02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:36.600 to say, so he trailed off. After a long pause, 2960 02:35:36.639 --> 02:35:39.719 the master applied, then you are welcome to come study 2961 02:35:40.280 --> 02:35:44.680 an instruction. Do four unreasonable things each day? So wait, wait, 2962 02:35:44.799 --> 02:35:49.040 so he's basically saying I am, and then just didn't 2963 02:35:49.079 --> 02:35:50.680 say anything after that, and he's like, then you are 2964 02:35:50.719 --> 02:35:56.200 welcome to study. Okay, So do four unreasonable things each 2965 02:35:56.280 --> 02:35:59.920 day the loss of divinity. The circumference practices three behave 2966 02:36:00.360 --> 02:36:04.040 which cause the loss of divinity. Consumption. We consume too 2967 02:36:04.120 --> 02:36:07.200 much because we believe the following two errors within the deception. 2968 02:36:07.479 --> 02:36:10.239 Number one, we do not have enough or there is 2969 02:36:10.280 --> 02:36:13.399 not enough, or number two we have what we have 2970 02:36:13.680 --> 02:36:16.159 now by luck, and we will not be strong enough 2971 02:36:16.239 --> 02:36:18.959 later to obtain what we need. Most things are not 2972 02:36:19.040 --> 02:36:23.280 worth consuming. Preservation. We preserve things because we believe we 2973 02:36:23.319 --> 02:36:25.559 are weak. If we lose them, we will not be 2974 02:36:25.600 --> 02:36:28.360 strong enough to gain them. Again. This is the deception. 2975 02:36:29.120 --> 02:36:32.600 Most things are not worth preserving. Most things are not 2976 02:36:32.639 --> 02:36:37.040 worth preserving. Adherents we follow dogma so that we can belong, 2977 02:36:37.120 --> 02:36:40.959 to belong and be right, or we follow reasons so 2978 02:36:41.040 --> 02:36:43.360 we can belong and be right. There is nothing to 2979 02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:46.920 be right about. To belong is death. It is the 2980 02:36:46.959 --> 02:36:51.440 behaviors of consumption, preservation, and adherence that we have us 2981 02:36:52.120 --> 02:36:56.959 that have us lost, that have us lose our primality 2982 02:36:57.520 --> 02:37:01.440 and thus our divinity. Some wisdom a mass great wealth. 2983 02:37:01.760 --> 02:37:04.520 Never become attached to what you own. Be prepared to 2984 02:37:04.559 --> 02:37:08.879 destroy all that you own. An instruction program, your mind 2985 02:37:09.159 --> 02:37:13.079 program reality a cone. During a lesson, the master explained, 2986 02:37:13.719 --> 02:37:16.040 this is the voice and the circumference. The master stopped 2987 02:37:16.799 --> 02:37:19.639 and the students were enlightened. Question all things to discover 2988 02:37:19.680 --> 02:37:21.399 your truth. Know this. We talked about the numbers on 2989 02:37:21.440 --> 02:37:26.760 that already an end. Within the deep web, there exists 2990 02:37:26.840 --> 02:37:30.159 a page that hashes tolah blah. There's a lot of 2991 02:37:30.159 --> 02:37:32.639 code there. It is the duty of every pilgrim to 2992 02:37:32.680 --> 02:37:37.760 seek out this page. Parable like the instar tunneling through 2993 02:37:37.760 --> 02:37:42.559 the surface, we must shed our circumferences, find the divinity 2994 02:37:42.559 --> 02:37:43.600 within and emerge. 2995 02:37:44.040 --> 02:37:46.479 So that's crazy as I can't find anything on who 2996 02:37:46.559 --> 02:37:50.319 actually made this and where it came from and when 2997 02:37:50.360 --> 02:37:51.120 it happened. 2998 02:37:52.559 --> 02:37:54.239 Everything keeps putting back to Cicada. 2999 02:37:54.719 --> 02:37:56.680 This isn't, like I said, This isn't like an ancient 3000 02:37:56.719 --> 02:38:00.280 Nordic text. This is a thing created by Cicada for 3001 02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:05.520 this entire purpose. It's not written by Crowley, written by Huxley, 3002 02:38:05.639 --> 02:38:09.159 written by Agrippa like, this is literally just made for 3003 02:38:09.280 --> 02:38:13.239 this purpose, which is pretty fascinating enough it self. So 3004 02:38:15.159 --> 02:38:17.879 I mean there's there's tons. There's tons to break down here. 3005 02:38:18.799 --> 02:38:23.000 So this is the more That article is basically the 3006 02:38:23.040 --> 02:38:27.479 people that took Cikeida and made it into a ransom software. 3007 02:38:28.040 --> 02:38:30.200 Okay, we'll read that one towards the end. Two because 3008 02:38:31.040 --> 02:38:33.840 the Y files shout out to the y files. They 3009 02:38:33.879 --> 02:38:35.840 did an episode on this a couple of years ago, 3010 02:38:36.639 --> 02:38:40.319 and I hear what he thinks as far as the 3011 02:38:40.479 --> 02:38:44.680 overarching theme behind it, but I don't necessarily agree and 3012 02:38:44.719 --> 02:38:47.959 I don't necessarily disagree either. Y'all tell me what y'all 3013 02:38:48.000 --> 02:38:49.879 think about a good cult members. Let's play it now. 3014 02:38:50.479 --> 02:38:51.719 Iber Primus is the way. 3015 02:38:52.120 --> 02:38:54.440 Its words are the map, the meaning is the road, 3016 02:38:54.799 --> 02:38:56.200 and their numbers are the direction. 3017 02:38:56.360 --> 02:38:56.959 They devoted. 3018 02:38:57.040 --> 02:39:00.360 Seek and you will be found. Good luck will be 3019 02:39:00.639 --> 02:39:01.559 thirty three oh one. 3020 02:39:01.879 --> 02:39:06.159 Will beware false paths. Many speculated that their numbers are 3021 02:39:06.239 --> 02:39:09.239 the direction was the major clue, but still no progress 3022 02:39:09.319 --> 02:39:12.559 was made. In twenty seventeen, a user stumbled across a 3023 02:39:12.559 --> 02:39:16.399 message from Cicada in Google's cased pages that nobody had noticed. 3024 02:39:17.280 --> 02:39:21.079 Beware false paths, always verify PGP signature. 3025 02:39:21.159 --> 02:39:23.920 We're thirty three oh one, and. 3026 02:39:23.799 --> 02:39:26.520 That was the last anyone heard from Cicada thirty three 3027 02:39:26.600 --> 02:39:29.319 oh one. It's been a few years with no solution 3028 02:39:29.440 --> 02:39:33.079 to Liber Primus and no further contact from Cicada. This 3029 02:39:33.239 --> 02:39:35.840 was disappointing to a lot of people. After all this 3030 02:39:36.280 --> 02:39:39.280 over several years, we were still no closer to finding 3031 02:39:39.280 --> 02:39:41.799 out who Cicada thirty three oh one was or what 3032 02:39:41.840 --> 02:39:45.399 they did. But liber Primus was the third quest. The 3033 02:39:45.440 --> 02:39:48.520 first two were solved, and the people who solved them 3034 02:39:48.920 --> 02:39:56.799 they started talking. When that first image appeared on four 3035 02:39:56.879 --> 02:40:00.520 Chan looking for highly intelligent individuals, the chase was on. 3036 02:40:00.920 --> 02:40:03.879 The mysterious group known as thirty three oh one presented 3037 02:40:03.879 --> 02:40:07.639 clues and challenges that thousands of techies and puzzle solvers 3038 02:40:07.680 --> 02:40:11.799 found impossible to resist. Each mystery became more complex. The 3039 02:40:11.840 --> 02:40:15.280 clues that connected Julius Caesar and King Arthur to cryptography 3040 02:40:15.360 --> 02:40:18.719 were genius and easy enough to solve that people became hooked. 3041 02:40:19.040 --> 02:40:22.000 The solutions that led to phone numbers and geographic coordinates 3042 02:40:22.239 --> 02:40:25.079 made the search even more real. But over time it 3043 02:40:25.079 --> 02:40:27.280 became clear that thirty three oh one was looking for 3044 02:40:27.319 --> 02:40:30.479 a specific type of person. To solve Cicada, you needed 3045 02:40:30.520 --> 02:40:33.479 knowledge of the concepts and the tools used in encryption. 3046 02:40:33.920 --> 02:40:37.360 You had to have computer skills, understand operating systems, and 3047 02:40:37.440 --> 02:40:39.920 be handy with programming. It also didn't hurt if you 3048 02:40:39.959 --> 02:40:43.200 had expertise in may numerology and pre Christian literature. Yeah, 3049 02:40:43.200 --> 02:40:47.760 who doesn't, But who was Cicada. A popular theory was 3050 02:40:47.799 --> 02:40:50.280 that this was a recruiting effort for a government intelligence 3051 02:40:50.319 --> 02:40:53.440 agency like CIA, NSA or MI six, and there was 3052 02:40:53.520 --> 02:40:56.280 plenty of precedent for that. During the Second World War, 3053 02:40:56.600 --> 02:41:00.000 the top secret Government Code and Cipher School used cross 3054 02:41:00.000 --> 02:41:03.120 exsword puzzles printed in the Daily Telegraph to identify good 3055 02:41:03.159 --> 02:41:07.079 candidates for Bletchley Park. Those recruits, along with Alan Turing, 3056 02:41:07.360 --> 02:41:09.719 went on to solve the Enigma machine, which helped the 3057 02:41:09.760 --> 02:41:13.760 Allies win the war. NSA and CIA ran similar contests 3058 02:41:13.799 --> 02:41:16.840 over the years. Companies like Google and Microsoft have also 3059 02:41:16.959 --> 02:41:19.959 used cryptography and puzzles to recruit, but one of the 3060 02:41:19.959 --> 02:41:24.079 early winners said Cicada was none of these. After solving 3061 02:41:24.120 --> 02:41:27.040 the final round of puzzles in twenty thirteen, he received 3062 02:41:27.040 --> 02:41:29.760 an email with a username and password, along with a 3063 02:41:29.840 --> 02:41:33.079 site address on the dark Web. The site had two parts, 3064 02:41:33.360 --> 02:41:36.319 a message board and a chat room. The message board 3065 02:41:36.399 --> 02:41:39.639 had various topics, including a welcome section, and an area 3066 02:41:39.680 --> 02:41:43.239 for Cicada's goals and current projects. The chatroom had about 3067 02:41:43.280 --> 02:41:46.920 twenty members. According to a couple of the winners, Cicada 3068 02:41:46.959 --> 02:41:49.719 wanted to further the use of cryptography so more people 3069 02:41:49.719 --> 02:41:52.879 would have access to Internet privacy. Section and an area 3070 02:41:52.920 --> 02:41:56.479 for Cicada's goals and current projects. The chatroom had about 3071 02:41:56.520 --> 02:42:00.000 twenty members. According to a couple of the winners, Cicada 3072 02:42:00.280 --> 02:42:02.959 wanted to further the use of cryptography so more people 3073 02:42:02.959 --> 02:42:07.079 would have access to Internet privacy. Cicada had some big goals, 3074 02:42:07.280 --> 02:42:09.399 but in the short term, they wanted to recruit highly 3075 02:42:09.440 --> 02:42:13.239 technical people to develop open source cryptography software. All I 3076 02:42:13.280 --> 02:42:16.120 had to fight people to write free software yep, and 3077 02:42:16.159 --> 02:42:19.159 I think this was Cickada's big mistake. The recruits didn't 3078 02:42:19.200 --> 02:42:21.879 want to write software that wanted to solve puzzles, and 3079 02:42:21.920 --> 02:42:25.159 when the puzzles stopped, the membership dwindled. There were spikes 3080 02:42:25.159 --> 02:42:27.760 in membership when new challenges appeared, but it was the 3081 02:42:27.760 --> 02:42:31.200 same story. The winners weren't interested in writing software, they 3082 02:42:31.200 --> 02:42:34.440 weren't driven by ideology, they didn't care about politics. They 3083 02:42:34.559 --> 02:42:37.760 just wanted to solve puzzles. The same thing happens when 3084 02:42:37.959 --> 02:42:43.879 NSACIAGHQ and other intelligence organizations do recruitment drives. Many of 3085 02:42:43.920 --> 02:42:46.479 the winners are offered positions in one of these agencies, 3086 02:42:46.680 --> 02:42:49.120 and many of them refuse. They don't want to work 3087 02:42:49.159 --> 02:42:51.600 in government and it too smart to wake and government. Well, 3088 02:42:51.600 --> 02:42:53.799 that might be part of it, but really they just 3089 02:42:53.879 --> 02:42:57.280 want to solve puzzles. Whenever you achieve a task, your 3090 02:42:57.280 --> 02:42:59.920 brain rewards you with a hit of dopamin. This could 3091 02:43:00.000 --> 02:43:03.520 mean finishing a workout, completing a school project, or figuring 3092 02:43:03.559 --> 02:43:06.639 out an escape room. Achieve a goal gets some dopamin. 3093 02:43:06.879 --> 02:43:10.319 Our brains love dopamin. It turns out that solving problems 3094 02:43:10.399 --> 02:43:12.840 is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, source 3095 02:43:12.840 --> 02:43:16.120 of dopamin for the brain. Solving puzzles like those presented 3096 02:43:16.120 --> 02:43:19.799 by Cicada reward us with dopaman while we're working on them, 3097 02:43:19.959 --> 02:43:23.159 and when we actually solve one, well, Cicada solvers describe 3098 02:43:23.200 --> 02:43:26.559 that feeling is nothing less than exhilarating. Now, plenty of 3099 02:43:26.600 --> 02:43:29.799 people are interested in politics and ideology, but not too 3100 02:43:29.799 --> 02:43:33.280 many of them would describe their interest as exhilarating. Puzzles 3101 02:43:33.319 --> 02:43:35.799 make us happy. When was the last time politics made 3102 02:43:35.799 --> 02:43:37.959 you happy? And although two of the goals of this 3103 02:43:38.079 --> 02:43:41.559 channel are to educate and inspire. The primary goal is 3104 02:43:41.600 --> 02:43:44.559 to entertain. In other words, the WI Files is here 3105 02:43:44.680 --> 02:43:47.360 to make you happy. So that's why I've included a 3106 02:43:47.399 --> 02:43:50.799 Cicada type puzzle in this video. Think you can find it. 3107 02:43:51.879 --> 02:43:54.680 Shout out once again to the wy Files. I absolutely 3108 02:43:54.760 --> 02:43:58.239 love the program. But now, okay, I hear what he's 3109 02:43:58.239 --> 02:44:02.799 saying that perhaps Cicada was used as some sort of 3110 02:44:02.920 --> 02:44:05.920 recruitment tool. But and I do agree with that to 3111 02:44:06.479 --> 02:44:10.159 a point. Was it for a government agency. Possibly? Was 3112 02:44:10.200 --> 02:44:15.120 it for a group of activist people, possibly that too. 3113 02:44:15.920 --> 02:44:18.559 But again, if they got to the end of the 3114 02:44:18.760 --> 02:44:21.799 yellow brick road and discovered that all it was was 3115 02:44:21.920 --> 02:44:24.360 a group that was writing code to make Internet more 3116 02:44:24.399 --> 02:44:26.760 accessible to everybody, I could understand why a lot of 3117 02:44:26.799 --> 02:44:29.159 them be like, Yeah, I didn't put in all this 3118 02:44:29.319 --> 02:44:32.959 work and all this extra thinking to write code for 3119 02:44:33.040 --> 02:44:34.959 some group of people I'm never gonna meet and never 3120 02:44:35.000 --> 02:44:37.920 gonna make money from, So like thanks, but no thanks. 3121 02:44:38.040 --> 02:44:39.159 I could imagine that too. 3122 02:44:42.280 --> 02:44:45.040 I have a theory that's kind of I have two 3123 02:44:45.479 --> 02:44:49.239 that I've been working throughout this entire thing. Now I'm 3124 02:44:49.280 --> 02:44:53.440 not the numerology person that's but I found it interesting 3125 02:44:53.719 --> 02:44:56.799 that certain things kept repeating itself throughout all of this, 3126 02:44:56.879 --> 02:44:58.840 and when I kept breaking down more and more of 3127 02:44:58.879 --> 02:45:00.959 what we were reading and what they put it in, 3128 02:45:01.680 --> 02:45:04.319 I was like, you know what, there's too much of 3129 02:45:04.319 --> 02:45:07.680 it to think of the to not acknowledge it at least. 3130 02:45:08.280 --> 02:45:11.079 So thirty three oh one is actually the angel number, 3131 02:45:11.760 --> 02:45:13.120 which I thought was kind of interesting. 3132 02:45:13.520 --> 02:45:15.239 Are you sure, because I've heard a lot of these 3133 02:45:15.360 --> 02:45:17.520 numbers be used as an angel number, like the god 3134 02:45:17.600 --> 02:45:18.760 frequency and whatever. 3135 02:45:19.399 --> 02:45:22.159 So I'm actually on numerology box dot com and it 3136 02:45:22.200 --> 02:45:25.600 says explaining the thirty three Zho one angel number meaning 3137 02:45:26.239 --> 02:45:30.000 and it talks about that it's uh that it's actually 3138 02:45:30.120 --> 02:45:33.959 apparently an angel number meaning spirituality and as as it 3139 02:45:34.000 --> 02:45:37.000 breakings us down into three components with creativity, self. 3140 02:45:36.840 --> 02:45:37.959 Expiration, and communication. 3141 02:45:38.879 --> 02:45:41.719 What I what I originally started looking at was the 3142 02:45:41.799 --> 02:45:44.959 actual numbers in and of itself, like zero one and 3143 02:45:45.239 --> 02:45:49.520 thirty three and so like zero is void, infinite cycles, 3144 02:45:49.840 --> 02:45:54.200 one is beginnings, fresh individuality and independence, and thirty three 3145 02:45:54.879 --> 02:46:01.479 is spiritual awareness, enlightenment, compassion, and healing. Was like, it's interesting, 3146 02:46:01.520 --> 02:46:03.920 I mean, because if you look at the theme of 3147 02:46:04.040 --> 02:46:07.440 everything that they brought to every little piece of this. 3148 02:46:07.639 --> 02:46:12.239 It all really boils down to as like new beginnings, 3149 02:46:11.959 --> 02:46:15.799 it restarting stuff over good and evil, enlightenment. And so 3150 02:46:15.840 --> 02:46:18.639 I'm like, okay, well that's kind of weird. So thirty 3151 02:46:18.639 --> 02:46:23.639 three one equal seven, which is introspection, spirituality, and analytical thinking. 3152 02:46:24.200 --> 02:46:26.879 Now I'm not Jonathan, so I don't know the woouness 3153 02:46:26.959 --> 02:46:30.520 of all the numerology, but I felt like it was 3154 02:46:30.559 --> 02:46:34.520 something worth actually saying, because it all seems to add 3155 02:46:34.559 --> 02:46:40.399 into this compounding, massive thing that they built. 3156 02:46:40.719 --> 02:46:43.440 And what I found. Did you see did you show 3157 02:46:43.479 --> 02:46:45.239 a feather on one of the. 3158 02:46:45.200 --> 02:46:50.319 Pages the premier Lebis. Yes, there was a cicada. There 3159 02:46:50.399 --> 02:46:52.079 was like a cicada that seemed like it was more 3160 02:46:52.079 --> 02:46:54.280 of a cocoon. There was a feather, There was women, 3161 02:46:54.360 --> 02:46:55.639 there were swirls, or were trees. 3162 02:46:56.399 --> 02:46:59.639 So the feather was kind of kind of made me 3163 02:46:59.639 --> 02:47:01.559 think of something. So I was like, you know what 3164 02:47:02.280 --> 02:47:04.239 they put in Egyptian stuff as well? 3165 02:47:04.479 --> 02:47:06.559 And I was like, which I remember, the. 3166 02:47:06.479 --> 02:47:08.920 Goddess, where where do they put in Egyptian stuff? You 3167 02:47:08.959 --> 02:47:10.959 said that earlier when it was the Book of the Dead, 3168 02:47:11.000 --> 02:47:13.360 that was Agrippa, That wasn't Egypt. 3169 02:47:13.719 --> 02:47:16.319 No, because when I was reading another section of it, 3170 02:47:16.399 --> 02:47:21.120 they somehow brought in Egyptian. I didn't know if that 3171 02:47:21.200 --> 02:47:22.840 was actually in it or if this was one of 3172 02:47:22.840 --> 02:47:23.959 those fandom things. 3173 02:47:23.760 --> 02:47:25.200 That like included that in. 3174 02:47:25.399 --> 02:47:29.440 Maybe that was, but I mean, if you look at 3175 02:47:29.479 --> 02:47:31.680 it in the sense of their bringing all types of 3176 02:47:31.719 --> 02:47:34.280 because even the one book that they brought that they 3177 02:47:34.360 --> 02:47:40.079 referenced has mythology into Celtic lure and about justice, about injustice. 3178 02:47:40.120 --> 02:47:41.600 A lot of it has to do with justice. 3179 02:47:41.600 --> 02:47:44.440 A lot of their stuff that they were talking about, right, 3180 02:47:45.760 --> 02:47:48.159 And so if you look at the if it was 3181 02:47:48.239 --> 02:47:52.760 actually a feather, and then if if the Egyptian was 3182 02:47:52.799 --> 02:47:54.760 brought in or not, you know, because the. 3183 02:47:54.959 --> 02:47:56.959 Way your heart against the feather to see where you 3184 02:47:57.000 --> 02:47:58.719 go in the afterlife. 3185 02:47:58.600 --> 02:48:01.600 Well, it's a symbol mat depiction of an ostrich feather 3186 02:48:01.639 --> 02:48:04.639 as a symbol of truth and justice. So again justice 3187 02:48:04.680 --> 02:48:07.319 is referenced in another way, if that was a part 3188 02:48:07.319 --> 02:48:11.000 of it or not, which I found to be really 3189 02:48:11.200 --> 02:48:14.920 kind of strange that everything kept being thirty three and 3190 02:48:14.959 --> 02:48:18.799 adding back to enlightenment and all these different things. Aleistair 3191 02:48:18.840 --> 02:48:23.920 Crowley's Book of Law is supposedly dictated to him by 3192 02:48:23.959 --> 02:48:27.760 a beyond human being which you know it's weird. 3193 02:48:28.440 --> 02:48:30.239 Well, I mean he was trying to talk with demons 3194 02:48:30.280 --> 02:48:32.280 a lot. That was his whole thing. He wanted to 3195 02:48:32.280 --> 02:48:35.639 be the most wicked man to ever live, which. 3196 02:48:35.799 --> 02:48:39.040 You know, I think applies to this because this was 3197 02:48:39.079 --> 02:48:41.559 also like and then I read more about it, it was 3198 02:48:41.600 --> 02:48:44.600 all about enlightenment, digital freedom, which makes me kind of 3199 02:48:44.639 --> 02:48:45.840 like circle all back to my. 3200 02:48:45.840 --> 02:48:48.879 Theory of I have two theories. Either this is a 3201 02:48:48.959 --> 02:48:49.879 new age. 3202 02:48:51.120 --> 02:48:54.920 In like new age vigilante group that is wanting to 3203 02:48:55.040 --> 02:48:58.479 bring about justice and what it talked about in the 3204 02:48:58.680 --> 02:49:03.079 portions that you could see about the Libra was talking about, 3205 02:49:03.159 --> 02:49:05.639 you know, beware of the truth that's gonna you're gonna 3206 02:49:05.680 --> 02:49:08.479 find and all this stuff that's gonna happen. You know, 3207 02:49:08.559 --> 02:49:11.600 you're gonna pretty much break it apart and you will find. 3208 02:49:12.079 --> 02:49:13.959 Of course, I can't find them one thing that I'm 3209 02:49:13.959 --> 02:49:18.239 looking for. Hang on, I think that these might be 3210 02:49:18.319 --> 02:49:22.520 vigilantes in some way. Yeah, I think it, or believe 3211 02:49:22.600 --> 02:49:25.239 nothing in the book finds your truth, experience your death. 3212 02:49:25.600 --> 02:49:28.319 I feel like when they're talking about this, they're talking 3213 02:49:28.360 --> 02:49:30.399 about the dark web in and of itself, and that 3214 02:49:30.440 --> 02:49:33.040 you're gonna find all of what you don't want to see, 3215 02:49:33.399 --> 02:49:35.520 like if they are this smart and it is a 3216 02:49:35.600 --> 02:49:40.040 vigilante cyber hacking group that is like actually fighting the 3217 02:49:40.079 --> 02:49:44.360 true evil like the the elites, the elite elite, and 3218 02:49:44.440 --> 02:49:47.159 find out really what they are, really what's been happening 3219 02:49:47.200 --> 02:49:49.639 for centuries and all of this stuff. I think that 3220 02:49:49.719 --> 02:49:53.239 plays into this is your enlightenment. You're becoming more enlightened 3221 02:49:53.239 --> 02:49:54.479 of what's actually around you. 3222 02:49:55.600 --> 02:49:58.799 Uh. That's probably more along the lines of what this is. 3223 02:49:59.000 --> 02:50:01.200 My other thought, which is kind. 3224 02:50:01.040 --> 02:50:03.760 Of crazy, is that it's an ancient society, like a 3225 02:50:03.799 --> 02:50:06.360 secret society that has been around for a long time 3226 02:50:06.760 --> 02:50:09.799 that dabbles, that is involved in the good and evil 3227 02:50:09.840 --> 02:50:11.040 war that's. 3228 02:50:10.840 --> 02:50:13.719 Been going on for centuries, and that this is a 3229 02:50:13.719 --> 02:50:16.639 part of recruiting people that could help wage the win 3230 02:50:16.719 --> 02:50:18.799 the war now that we're in the digital. 3231 02:50:18.440 --> 02:50:21.040 Aspect of things versus what it used to be, Yeah, 3232 02:50:21.040 --> 02:50:24.319 And that they're looking for specific characteristics of people, and 3233 02:50:24.360 --> 02:50:26.200 that they're letting you know that like this is going 3234 02:50:26.280 --> 02:50:28.600 to be something that once you get into this, then 3235 02:50:29.040 --> 02:50:30.959 you're never going to get back out, and that there's 3236 02:50:31.040 --> 02:50:33.479 so much more to this world and this is going 3237 02:50:33.559 --> 02:50:36.079 to be your true enlightenment once you break the code, 3238 02:50:36.120 --> 02:50:38.600 you're going to be recruited into this. So those are 3239 02:50:38.600 --> 02:50:41.719 my two random, weird theories. But I feel like if 3240 02:50:41.719 --> 02:50:43.079 you look at it all of it, it. 3241 02:50:43.040 --> 02:50:43.719 Breaks it down. 3242 02:50:44.120 --> 02:50:46.559 I think you're onto something With both of those actually 3243 02:50:48.440 --> 02:50:52.719 taking into account everything, this was clearly a recruiting tool 3244 02:50:53.040 --> 02:50:57.079 for some group, and I've got to be honest, I 3245 02:50:57.120 --> 02:50:58.879 don't think that it was a group that was out 3246 02:50:58.920 --> 02:51:01.799 there doing the good war wor I'll put it like that. 3247 02:51:03.040 --> 02:51:08.319 And there's multiple reasons why I believe that. For one, 3248 02:51:08.840 --> 02:51:11.000 the fact that they wanted people that were that well 3249 02:51:11.000 --> 02:51:16.040 acquainted with the dark Web, Like most most good people 3250 02:51:16.200 --> 02:51:18.600 out there doing good things are not going onto the 3251 02:51:18.680 --> 02:51:21.799 dark web for any fucking thing right now. I'm not 3252 02:51:21.799 --> 02:51:25.239 saying everybody who's on the dark web or evil. Well, again, 3253 02:51:25.559 --> 02:51:28.280 if you're hacking, you're probably not doing it for good purposes. 3254 02:51:28.760 --> 02:51:30.760 But a lot of people do try to hack to 3255 02:51:31.680 --> 02:51:33.600 get information to be spread out. 3256 02:51:34.040 --> 02:51:36.360 Not everyone, not everyone, but there are. 3257 02:51:36.639 --> 02:51:39.520 Decent people, and I think that's what that personality test 3258 02:51:39.600 --> 02:51:41.760 was for. I think what a lot of these things 3259 02:51:41.799 --> 02:51:45.760 were for is to realize that they are whoever they're 3260 02:51:45.799 --> 02:51:49.280 recruiting might need to be morally gray because of what 3261 02:51:49.440 --> 02:51:53.040 they're going to be doing. Yes, is I personally think 3262 02:51:53.040 --> 02:51:55.920 that this is actually a positive thing, that they recruited 3263 02:51:55.959 --> 02:52:00.959 people for a positive, vigilante style war that they're waging 3264 02:52:01.000 --> 02:52:02.959 that we aren't a part of, Like we don't see. 3265 02:52:03.159 --> 02:52:05.760 So I could see the point of that. And also 3266 02:52:05.799 --> 02:52:07.639 I could see that most of the people that were 3267 02:52:07.680 --> 02:52:09.799 participating in this, I don't think we're like bad people 3268 02:52:10.200 --> 02:52:13.399 like by any anything like, right right, right, right. But 3269 02:52:13.479 --> 02:52:15.559 what I'm saying is when they finally got their offer letter, 3270 02:52:15.600 --> 02:52:18.280 the fifteen year old obviously didn't do it. Like he 3271 02:52:18.639 --> 02:52:21.479 got the offer, he made it through and decided, nah, 3272 02:52:21.559 --> 02:52:24.559 I'm going to go help people instead. You see what 3273 02:52:24.559 --> 02:52:27.520 I'm saying, Like he had all that capability to work 3274 02:52:27.520 --> 02:52:30.120 with Cicada to be a part of the click, and 3275 02:52:30.200 --> 02:52:32.479 he decided, Nah, dude, I'm going to go try to 3276 02:52:32.520 --> 02:52:35.319 help the earth and help you know, the human genome 3277 02:52:35.479 --> 02:52:39.639 in totality instead. I'm good, But That's what I'm saying. 3278 02:52:39.680 --> 02:52:42.159 And then also that everything had to be secret in nature. 3279 02:52:42.920 --> 02:52:46.840 Most very positive things are not secret in nature, right. 3280 02:52:46.920 --> 02:52:48.280 And then but if. 3281 02:52:48.200 --> 02:52:51.040 You're waging your war against things that we don't know about, 3282 02:52:51.680 --> 02:52:55.920 like the common folk don't know about that that this 3283 02:52:56.120 --> 02:52:59.959 is stuff that we hypothetically feel like it might be true, 3284 02:53:00.319 --> 02:53:04.399 but this is these people actually understand the underbelty or 3285 02:53:04.440 --> 02:53:06.760 the dimensional stuff or all of these things that we 3286 02:53:07.479 --> 02:53:09.639 think that might be true, but no, they are going 3287 02:53:09.680 --> 02:53:12.280 to find out for the for real, like this is 3288 02:53:12.280 --> 02:53:13.200 what's really gonna happen. 3289 02:53:13.280 --> 02:53:14.440 It's gonna break your truth. 3290 02:53:14.479 --> 02:53:17.040 It's gonna you're gonna experience your death as a human 3291 02:53:17.559 --> 02:53:21.120 and you're gonna become something else. You're gonna become enlightened 3292 02:53:21.159 --> 02:53:22.879 in some way, and you're gonna do something. 3293 02:53:22.680 --> 02:53:26.159 Else, which also ties into what I think they're like, Yeah, no, 3294 02:53:26.200 --> 02:53:28.879 you're gonna lose your humanity if you if you do this, 3295 02:53:29.000 --> 02:53:30.719 you're you're gonna be a part of the bad guys. 3296 02:53:31.319 --> 02:53:34.079 I think that this is a recruitment tool for the 3297 02:53:34.239 --> 02:53:37.639 dark elites. They were claiming that it was for good purposes, 3298 02:53:37.959 --> 02:53:40.120 but you wouldn't know any different until you got your 3299 02:53:40.159 --> 02:53:42.680 welcome letter and then realize all the projects that they're 3300 02:53:42.680 --> 02:53:46.799 associated with, and then you realize like, oh oh, it's 3301 02:53:46.840 --> 02:53:49.239 like it's like that scene like Hans, are we the Baddies? 3302 02:53:50.159 --> 02:53:52.360 I think that might have been what this was. 3303 02:53:52.799 --> 02:53:55.680 I could be so I can appreciate your theory too, 3304 02:53:55.680 --> 02:53:57.760 because I definitely didn't think about that as well. 3305 02:53:57.840 --> 02:53:58.120 I was. 3306 02:53:58.280 --> 02:54:01.840 I was considering, you know, what could this be for good? 3307 02:54:01.840 --> 02:54:04.520 Could this be for evil? What are the balancing because 3308 02:54:04.520 --> 02:54:08.920 everything is about balance, scales, justice, enlightenment. You know, you're 3309 02:54:08.959 --> 02:54:13.520 finding all this truth beginnings, you know all that step so. 3310 02:54:13.719 --> 02:54:17.559 And take away religious dogma, take away whatever religious take 3311 02:54:17.879 --> 02:54:22.639 away the dogma, but of this thought process. And I'm 3312 02:54:22.680 --> 02:54:25.760 not even saying Christian or Buddhist or what take away 3313 02:54:25.799 --> 02:54:31.040 religious titles for just a second, of all spiritual walks 3314 02:54:31.120 --> 02:54:35.040 on earth, one side is telling you that, oh, well, 3315 02:54:35.079 --> 02:54:37.600 you don't have enlightenment, but we can offer it to you. 3316 02:54:38.200 --> 02:54:40.639 And the other side is saying, no, if you're wanting enlightenment, dude, 3317 02:54:40.680 --> 02:54:43.399 dot dot dot, And like here you go. One of 3318 02:54:43.440 --> 02:54:45.719 these sides operates in the darkness and they're talking about 3319 02:54:45.760 --> 02:54:48.680 revealing the light to you, and the other side talks 3320 02:54:48.680 --> 02:54:50.760 about how, no, no, here's the light. You could just 3321 02:54:50.760 --> 02:54:53.319 take it. You see what I'm saying. 3322 02:54:53.799 --> 02:54:55.120 I do, I see what you're saying. 3323 02:54:55.600 --> 02:54:56.959 And again, I could be so wrong. 3324 02:54:57.079 --> 02:54:59.360 I have no idea what it could be. 3325 02:54:59.479 --> 02:55:02.200 I just found to be interesting that the cycles kept 3326 02:55:02.280 --> 02:55:06.399 repeating the specific people that they chose what they were saying, like, 3327 02:55:06.879 --> 02:55:08.799 you didn't need to select all of these things. 3328 02:55:09.479 --> 02:55:10.120 You didn't need to. 3329 02:55:10.120 --> 02:55:13.440 Select these certain people that have ties into everything else 3330 02:55:13.520 --> 02:55:16.360 that bring up different types of occult meanings, that have 3331 02:55:16.920 --> 02:55:20.360 mythology and these different things that are talking about constantly. 3332 02:55:20.600 --> 02:55:20.959 Justice. 3333 02:55:21.239 --> 02:55:23.559 Yeah, I don't know, And that was only just a 3334 02:55:23.600 --> 02:55:25.319 little bit that we broke that I was able to 3335 02:55:25.319 --> 02:55:28.360 break down while we were having this conversation. So to 3336 02:55:28.440 --> 02:55:31.799 break it fully down, I'm curious to see what it 3337 02:55:31.799 --> 02:55:32.799 would actually lay out. 3338 02:55:33.120 --> 02:55:37.760 Yeah, yeah, I agree. And that's the worst part. No 3339 02:55:37.760 --> 02:55:42.200 one is ever gonna know because allegedly the people that 3340 02:55:42.319 --> 02:55:45.840 got their welcome letter either walked away and they've never 3341 02:55:45.879 --> 02:55:48.319 spoken of it since. And perhaps that could be because 3342 02:55:48.319 --> 02:55:51.760 they realize whatever level of people they're talking to could 3343 02:55:51.840 --> 02:55:54.840 affect their actual real life, right, and so they're just like, 3344 02:55:54.879 --> 02:55:58.319 hey man, silence is key and I'm walking away, Or 3345 02:55:58.840 --> 02:56:02.079 they took the acceptance letter and they'll never speak of 3346 02:56:02.120 --> 02:56:04.600 it because now they're in the click. So it's like 3347 02:56:04.760 --> 02:56:08.719 where they disappeared, or they disappeared that all of this 3348 02:56:08.799 --> 02:56:10.920 could be true. Hell, this could be the fucking Aliens 3349 02:56:10.920 --> 02:56:12.840 for all we know. Real shit, it could be. 3350 02:56:12.959 --> 02:56:15.639 I mean, honestly, I thought, like half of the episode, 3351 02:56:15.719 --> 02:56:18.760 I really thought this was like aliens of some type. 3352 02:56:19.159 --> 02:56:22.879 Like I really thought that it was aliens or supernatural being. 3353 02:56:22.959 --> 02:56:25.879 I actually wrote down my first initial thought was that 3354 02:56:25.959 --> 02:56:30.000 this was an inch of society before the reset, before 3355 02:56:30.200 --> 02:56:32.920 we got reset and lost a lot of our information. 3356 02:56:33.399 --> 02:56:36.920 This is a subgroup that has been around fighting the 3357 02:56:37.159 --> 02:56:40.280 dark Elites or fighting the darkness of some type, and 3358 02:56:40.319 --> 02:56:43.879 that they have now utilized this to find new recruits 3359 02:56:43.920 --> 02:56:46.920 to add in their fold to try and combat this 3360 02:56:47.079 --> 02:56:50.760 on the digital scale. I didn't that was my initial 3361 02:56:50.760 --> 02:56:54.600 thoughts that I was thinking maybe aliens. I was thinking different, 3362 02:56:54.719 --> 02:56:56.280 just a whole bunch of different things. 3363 02:56:56.399 --> 02:57:00.559 It might be Illuminati, it might be global dark Elites, 3364 02:57:00.680 --> 02:57:04.879 it might be a real genuine activists that are like 3365 02:57:05.000 --> 02:57:08.959 doing good things for the Earth. There's so many possibilities here, 3366 02:57:09.040 --> 02:57:12.079 to be completely honest, and I'm very glad that we 3367 02:57:12.120 --> 02:57:13.000 did this episode. 3368 02:57:13.200 --> 02:57:15.680 To be honest, me too, It's very it's been very 3369 02:57:15.719 --> 02:57:16.440 interesting and. 3370 02:57:16.520 --> 02:57:21.000 Enlightening and enlightening. So now we have this last article here, Raven, 3371 02:57:21.079 --> 02:57:22.879 you sent this one to me as a matter of fact, Well. 3372 02:57:22.760 --> 02:57:24.280 They don't have to like break it all the way down. 3373 02:57:24.319 --> 02:57:27.360 But I found it to be interesting that the this 3374 02:57:27.879 --> 02:57:30.040 so twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five, they talk 3375 02:57:30.120 --> 02:57:33.559 about the Cicada thirty three oh one now being used 3376 02:57:33.600 --> 02:57:37.159 as a ransomware and that this is it was on 3377 02:57:37.319 --> 02:57:39.840 all the big tech sites, so this is apparently a 3378 02:57:39.879 --> 02:57:41.200 thing that this got turned into. 3379 02:57:42.559 --> 02:57:45.159 They don't feel that it has an association with it. 3380 02:57:45.479 --> 02:57:47.239 So it's a copycat, but it's. 3381 02:57:47.159 --> 02:57:50.399 A copycat of it that specifically used that though to 3382 02:57:50.479 --> 02:57:52.040 do this, So I don't know. 3383 02:57:52.639 --> 02:57:57.040 Wow, Okay, so yeah. Dissecting Cicada. A new ransomware group 3384 02:57:57.079 --> 02:57:59.879 calling themselves Cicada thirty three oho one was observed in 3385 02:58:00.000 --> 02:58:02.680 in June twenty twenty four when they posted four victims 3386 02:58:02.719 --> 02:58:05.399 on a victim blog. Since then, Cicada thirty three oh 3387 02:58:05.440 --> 02:58:07.840 one has added more victims to this list. The name 3388 02:58:08.040 --> 02:58:10.040 Cicada thirty three oh one appears to be taken from 3389 02:58:10.040 --> 02:58:12.799 an internet cryptography game a few years ago, but there 3390 02:58:12.879 --> 02:58:17.760 is nothing to tie this ransomware group to that phenomena. Okay, 3391 02:58:17.879 --> 02:58:21.159 so it appears to be a traditional ransomware as a 3392 02:58:21.200 --> 02:58:24.799 service group that offers a platform for double extortion with 3393 02:58:24.879 --> 02:58:28.000 both a ransomware and a data league site to its affiliates. 3394 02:58:28.159 --> 02:58:31.040 The first published leak on the group's data leak site 3395 02:58:31.079 --> 02:58:33.600 is dated to June twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Four 3396 02:58:33.680 --> 02:58:36.159 days later, on June twenty nine, the group published an 3397 02:58:36.200 --> 02:58:39.639 invitation to potential affiliates to join their ransomware as a 3398 02:58:39.680 --> 02:58:46.479 service platform on the cybercrime forum ramp okay. As as 3399 02:58:46.799 --> 02:58:49.799 advertised above, the Cicada group uses a ransomware written in 3400 02:58:49.879 --> 02:58:54.040 Rust for both Windows and Linux hosts. This report will 3401 02:58:54.040 --> 02:59:00.159 focus on the x ex eesxi Excuse Me ransomware. There 3402 02:59:00.200 --> 02:59:02.399 are artifacts in the code that suggest that the Windows 3403 02:59:02.479 --> 02:59:05.719 ransomware is the same ransomware, just as a different compilation. 3404 02:59:06.440 --> 02:59:09.040 While more and more ransomware groups are adding the es 3405 02:59:09.200 --> 02:59:12.200 XI ransomware to their arsenal, only a few groups are 3406 02:59:12.239 --> 02:59:17.280 known to have used the es XI written in Rust. 3407 02:59:17.520 --> 02:59:21.760 One of them is a now defunct black Cat alf 3408 02:59:21.920 --> 02:59:24.799 V ransomware as a service group. Analysis of the code 3409 02:59:25.079 --> 02:59:28.159 has also shown several similarities to the code to the 3410 02:59:28.200 --> 02:59:29.600 ALFV set. 3411 02:59:29.680 --> 02:59:32.879 Okay, So yeah, so apparently they stole it from the 3412 02:59:32.920 --> 02:59:37.239 black Cat group is pretty much what another website was saying, 3413 02:59:37.280 --> 02:59:39.639 that they stole it or they converted it into this 3414 02:59:39.760 --> 02:59:40.159 new one. 3415 02:59:41.239 --> 02:59:44.680 Wow. So when they say ransomware, they're like they're extorting 3416 02:59:45.680 --> 02:59:47.239 people seeking. 3417 02:59:46.719 --> 02:59:50.120 From Yeah, they're storing money from companies and apparently they've 3418 02:59:50.239 --> 02:59:54.000 hit a ton of companies and they have data proof 3419 02:59:54.040 --> 02:59:58.280 of different types of financial stuff, different types of you know, 3420 02:59:59.399 --> 03:00:03.680 blackmail pretty much, and they once they have a ransom 3421 03:00:04.040 --> 03:00:06.559 they have also the leak attached to it, and so 3422 03:00:06.680 --> 03:00:09.440 pretty much if you don't if you pay it but 3423 03:00:09.520 --> 03:00:11.639 don't do a certain thing, then it will leak the 3424 03:00:11.680 --> 03:00:13.719 information or if you pay, like there's a whole bunch 3425 03:00:13.760 --> 03:00:16.959 of different stuff, and pretty much it talks about breaking 3426 03:00:17.000 --> 03:00:19.920 down the they're trying to hunt this group down and 3427 03:00:19.959 --> 03:00:25.799 try to basically not get hacked and get involved. 3428 03:00:25.399 --> 03:00:26.879 In this situation. So this is true. 3429 03:00:26.879 --> 03:00:30.239 SECT is a hacking AI platform group that talks about 3430 03:00:30.280 --> 03:00:31.079 different stuff like that. 3431 03:00:31.399 --> 03:00:33.079 But I just thought it was interesting because that was 3432 03:00:33.120 --> 03:00:33.680 the first thing. 3433 03:00:33.600 --> 03:00:35.879 That popped up when I typed in Cicada three point 3434 03:00:35.840 --> 03:00:39.719 thirty one was this group that's ransoming out money from 3435 03:00:39.760 --> 03:00:40.920 companies globally. 3436 03:00:41.799 --> 03:00:44.920 And then keep in mind the Cicada, the original Cicada 3437 03:00:45.000 --> 03:00:48.719 said to watch out for copycats and check the PGP 3438 03:00:49.200 --> 03:00:51.360 to make sure that it's coming from the original source 3439 03:00:51.399 --> 03:00:52.959 because they knew there was going to be a ton 3440 03:00:53.000 --> 03:00:55.000 of copycats. They're going to try to use their name 3441 03:00:55.120 --> 03:00:59.120 to do things. So yeah, I personally don't believe this 3442 03:00:59.159 --> 03:01:01.559 is the same group, but I don't think so either. 3443 03:01:02.159 --> 03:01:07.479 Wow. But yeah, so what an episode that was. I'm 3444 03:01:07.520 --> 03:01:09.280 not gonna lie. I totally want to dig into this more. 3445 03:01:09.719 --> 03:01:13.159 No, I agree, Oh my god, this there's so many 3446 03:01:13.239 --> 03:01:17.600 levels to it. It goes so deep. Just the amount 3447 03:01:17.639 --> 03:01:20.079 of work that was needed to break down the first 3448 03:01:20.120 --> 03:01:22.159 code and then to go to the next one and 3449 03:01:22.159 --> 03:01:24.079 go to the next one. Like I who has the 3450 03:01:24.159 --> 03:01:26.559 time and the brain power to do this kind of shit? 3451 03:01:26.840 --> 03:01:30.399 But apparently when one person got to the final element, 3452 03:01:30.440 --> 03:01:32.239 there was like twenty people in the chat room, So 3453 03:01:32.280 --> 03:01:34.600 it's like, yeah, out of the entire world, maybe twenty 3454 03:01:34.639 --> 03:01:37.120 people could figure it out. Okay, see it. I could 3455 03:01:37.159 --> 03:01:37.600 see that. 3456 03:01:38.639 --> 03:01:41.040 I could see it. It's such a minute number. But 3457 03:01:41.920 --> 03:01:44.680 I don't know. I want to I'm not gonna lie until. 3458 03:01:44.479 --> 03:01:45.879 You want to sit I don't have the time to 3459 03:01:45.920 --> 03:01:47.200 do it, but I want to sit down and break 3460 03:01:47.280 --> 03:01:49.760 everything down that they put into it and see how 3461 03:01:49.799 --> 03:01:52.879 it all connects. And I mean, I don't We're never 3462 03:01:52.959 --> 03:01:54.879 gonna know, and it's not like we're smart enough to 3463 03:01:55.200 --> 03:01:56.200 figure that shit out. 3464 03:01:56.120 --> 03:02:01.440 So yeah, no, you're not so. In conclusion, members Cicada 3465 03:02:01.479 --> 03:02:05.440 thirty three to oh one. In twenty twelve, this random 3466 03:02:05.479 --> 03:02:09.600 thing popped up and so many online brainiacts got their 3467 03:02:09.600 --> 03:02:11.639 hands on it and decided they wanted to find out 3468 03:02:11.639 --> 03:02:14.399 the deeper meaning. It led them down quite a rabbit hole, 3469 03:02:14.680 --> 03:02:17.399 and then one month later it went away. They redid 3470 03:02:17.399 --> 03:02:20.959 it again in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen and allegedly 3471 03:02:21.559 --> 03:02:23.840 was as a recruiting tool. Was it from the government, 3472 03:02:23.920 --> 03:02:26.280 Was it from a activist source? Was it from the Illuminati? 3473 03:02:26.360 --> 03:02:28.159 Was it from the Aliens? We don't know. Was it 3474 03:02:28.200 --> 03:02:31.760 from the Freemasons? We don't know. But they finally found 3475 03:02:31.760 --> 03:02:34.120 whatever recruiting number they were looking for, because after three 3476 03:02:34.200 --> 03:02:36.360 rounds of it, they finally sectioned it off and closed 3477 03:02:36.360 --> 03:02:38.799 it down for good. What do you make of this? 3478 03:02:38.920 --> 03:02:41.520 Where is it going? What is the overarching themes? What 3479 03:02:41.600 --> 03:02:45.639 was their goal? The world may actually never know. I 3480 03:02:45.680 --> 03:02:49.040 don't know. I do like how I do like how 3481 03:02:49.079 --> 03:02:51.399 there's so much speculation, and how you and I were 3482 03:02:51.440 --> 03:02:55.280 able to pull from this and come up with our 3483 03:02:55.319 --> 03:02:58.159 own theories on this, and there's no right or wrong. 3484 03:02:58.520 --> 03:02:59.639 There's no way of knowing. 3485 03:03:00.200 --> 03:03:02.479 I have no idea either, but I'm curious to see 3486 03:03:02.520 --> 03:03:05.760 what other cult members say, what their theories are, I 3487 03:03:05.799 --> 03:03:08.440 mean mine, we're kind of just listening this the first 3488 03:03:08.479 --> 03:03:10.120 time I've really heard of it, and just shot out 3489 03:03:10.120 --> 03:03:11.840 of a cannon and just reading what I could while 3490 03:03:11.840 --> 03:03:14.479 we were talking and all this stuff, and who knows. 3491 03:03:14.840 --> 03:03:18.239 I do think though, that I personally think that it 3492 03:03:18.280 --> 03:03:21.600 is some type of good that was going to come 3493 03:03:21.639 --> 03:03:24.559 from this, and that the only way to find these 3494 03:03:24.600 --> 03:03:27.040 people is utilized in the dark web. There's a lot 3495 03:03:27.040 --> 03:03:29.520 of people that understand how to because that's where all 3496 03:03:29.639 --> 03:03:31.920 the platforms are to break things down and to talk 3497 03:03:31.920 --> 03:03:34.799 about all this stuff is through that your average Joe 3498 03:03:34.879 --> 03:03:36.959 or even the people that are looking around, they're they're 3499 03:03:36.959 --> 03:03:38.399 not going to just be on the web and just 3500 03:03:38.440 --> 03:03:39.239 some random thing. 3501 03:03:39.639 --> 03:03:42.360 But I don't know. I think it might be an 3502 03:03:42.600 --> 03:03:46.799 ancient society still. I think it might be a vigilante group. 3503 03:03:46.920 --> 03:03:50.440 I don't know, but it just seems it just seems. 3504 03:03:50.120 --> 03:03:54.159 Too like in the positive of justice that for me personally, 3505 03:03:54.200 --> 03:03:56.680 I feel like it's something they took whoever it was, 3506 03:03:56.760 --> 03:03:57.760 and did good with it. 3507 03:03:58.520 --> 03:04:02.959 But that's the other thing. Justice is subjective, right, I mean, 3508 03:04:03.000 --> 03:04:06.680 it shouldn't be there. There should be pretty pretty clear cut, 3509 03:04:07.360 --> 03:04:11.399 but unfortunately it depends on who you ask. What is justice? 3510 03:04:11.440 --> 03:04:15.200 How is justice truly served? Right? And so for these 3511 03:04:15.319 --> 03:04:20.760 people's online interpretation of justice through an esoteric lens, is 3512 03:04:20.799 --> 03:04:24.000 that the correct form of justice? And then who's to 3513 03:04:24.079 --> 03:04:26.879 say if it is or is not correct? They had 3514 03:04:26.920 --> 03:04:30.360 a very heavy emphasis on justice, a very heavy emphasis 3515 03:04:30.399 --> 03:04:35.079 on secrecy. Secrecy. God, I'm having issues speaking and the 3516 03:04:36.840 --> 03:04:43.760 occult and knowledge self enlightenment, enlightenment and totality, and then 3517 03:04:43.959 --> 03:04:48.040 also a serious understanding of technical know how to be 3518 03:04:48.040 --> 03:04:51.639 able to extrapolate all of these things. I don't know 3519 03:04:51.680 --> 03:04:52.520 who they were hunting. 3520 03:04:53.559 --> 03:04:58.200 Maybe it's a matrix. Maybe it's the matrix, break the matrix. 3521 03:04:58.879 --> 03:05:01.360 This is Morpheus, missus Morpheus. 3522 03:05:01.399 --> 03:05:03.559 Maybe it's that he's trying to find the NEOs. 3523 03:05:03.760 --> 03:05:06.000 You, yeah, Maybe that he's trying to find the NEOs 3524 03:05:06.079 --> 03:05:07.920 and to break it through. I did actually think about 3525 03:05:07.920 --> 03:05:10.360 that earlier too, but I just forgot about it. It 3526 03:05:10.360 --> 03:05:12.879 would make sense, I mean, they need people that are 3527 03:05:12.959 --> 03:05:15.040 able to read the binary codes and all the different 3528 03:05:15.040 --> 03:05:18.520 shit that and be able to be so smart to 3529 03:05:18.559 --> 03:05:19.079 break the. 3530 03:05:19.000 --> 03:05:21.920 Matrix that is the global evil elite and all this stuff. 3531 03:05:21.959 --> 03:05:25.319 If Jonathan is correct and we're living in alternate reality 3532 03:05:25.719 --> 03:05:28.600 and all these things, we needed the smarter, the smart 3533 03:05:28.600 --> 03:05:30.399 to be able to get to it, and it would 3534 03:05:30.399 --> 03:05:33.000 break you. You would have a human death because everything 3535 03:05:33.040 --> 03:05:37.000 you knew is ultimately a lie and we aren't even 3536 03:05:37.079 --> 03:05:40.120 real like we're not actually experiencing the way that we're 3537 03:05:40.120 --> 03:05:40.840 supposed to live. 3538 03:05:41.200 --> 03:05:43.680 Woo man, mind blown. 3539 03:05:44.079 --> 03:05:46.159 Good cult members, We want to hear what you have 3540 03:05:46.200 --> 03:05:47.600 to say on this and what do you think about 3541 03:05:47.600 --> 03:05:49.760 CICKDA thirty three to oh one? Do you think it 3542 03:05:49.840 --> 03:05:52.440 was a good thing a bad thing? Internet gain that 3543 03:05:52.479 --> 03:05:54.360 went a little too far and a little too in depth. 3544 03:05:54.639 --> 03:05:56.399 We want to hear from you. 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But good cult members, as we 3565 03:06:42.360 --> 03:06:44.239 are wrapping up this episode about Cicada thirty three to 3566 03:06:44.239 --> 03:06:46.159 oh one, we want to hear what you think about it? 3567 03:06:46.399 --> 03:06:48.360 Have you ever done research into it? Do you know 3568 03:06:48.399 --> 03:06:50.639 anybody that was trying to break down these puzzles when 3569 03:06:50.680 --> 03:06:52.879 they were popping off? Were you one of them? We 3570 03:06:52.920 --> 03:06:55.079 want to hear from you. What do you think about it? 3571 03:06:55.120 --> 03:06:56.760 And the best place to let us know would be 3572 03:06:56.879 --> 03:06:59.559 too please hit the five stars at the Shares of Lice. 3573 03:06:59.559 --> 03:07:01.520 Suscribes im pleave a poster reviews shares the Prince of 3574 03:07:01.559 --> 03:07:03.920 vill ask where here's the deal? Mess up my words? 3575 03:07:03.959 --> 03:07:06.360 It's all good. The more activity the algorithm seas across 3576 03:07:06.399 --> 03:07:08.440 all of our listening platforms, the more we get promoted 3577 03:07:08.440 --> 03:07:10.799 and more potential listeners who could then become potential Coat members. 3578 03:07:10.799 --> 03:07:12.799 Actor Steve finally as and gentlemen, why are you ready 3579 03:07:12.760 --> 03:07:14.559 to go check out Menimistics Jonthon show and give him 3580 03:07:14.559 --> 03:07:15.719 the same love and respect over there with the five 3581 03:07:15.760 --> 03:07:18.000 star views and the positivity in the comments. Come check 3582 03:07:18.040 --> 03:07:20.000 out the Cajun Knights and come join each of us 3583 03:07:20.040 --> 03:07:22.440 for our individual Patreon lies we host every Wednesday night 3584 03:07:22.440 --> 03:07:24.079 at nine pm Central. Links to those are in the 3585 03:07:24.120 --> 03:07:26.399 description as well. And we thank you for everybody's already 3586 03:07:26.399 --> 03:07:28.559 gone and done so. And with all of this being said, 3587 03:07:28.600 --> 03:07:32.200 this was another beautiful episode of the Cult of Conspiracy. 3588 03:07:32.440 --> 03:07:35.799 And I'm the Cajun Knight. And there's one very important, 3589 03:07:35.799 --> 03:07:37.680 extremely vital piece of information. We need you the letter 3590 03:07:37.760 --> 03:07:39.639 just as soon as humanly possible.