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Psilosopherr
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Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found
#22044758 - 08/04/15 09:46 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
Even if its not true or just some puzzle that goes nowhere, its a great idea for a role-playing game
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rackem



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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: Psilosopherr]
#22044770 - 08/04/15 09:48 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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This has been going for a while.. Who knows what the fuck its all about...
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ModestMouse
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: Psilosopherr] 1
#22045455 - 08/05/15 12:55 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sounds like talent scouting. Likely for some sort of corporation or hactivist group.
The very name cicada seems to be a cryptograph, and the fact that the bugs themselves only show every certain number of years seems ominous.
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404
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: Psilosopherr]
#22045567 - 08/05/15 01:41 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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heard about this. one of the puzzles was a picture file or something. embedded in it was a message to the next clue, or something. you can embed stuff within the photo, change a pixel, whatever.
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Prisoner#1
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: 404]
#22046207 - 08/05/15 08:42 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
404 said: heard about this. one of the puzzles was a picture file or something. embedded in it was a message to the next clue, or something. you can embed stuff within the photo, change a pixel, whatever.
it's called steganography
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Psilosopherr
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: ModestMouse]
#22046578 - 08/05/15 10:42 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
ModestMouse said: Sounds like talent scouting. Likely for some sort of corporation or hactivist group.
The very name cicada seems to be a cryptograph, and the fact that the bugs themselves only show every certain number of years seems ominous.
yeah I thought the cicada thing was neat, particularly the re-emerging every so many years deal
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Psychonautica
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: Psilosopherr]
#22046782 - 08/05/15 11:25 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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-------------------- The chances of you even being born, Were forty million to one. There's two parts of the statistic And I want you to live through one 3/8/95 - 7/10/15 Rest In Paradise, Brother. Sheekle said: yeah, i said i was afraid of psychonautica

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ModestMouse
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: Psychonautica]
#22046835 - 08/05/15 11:39 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why don't you just google it?
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Psilocybend
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Re: Interesting post about 'secret' hacker group I found [Re: ModestMouse]
#22047322 - 08/05/15 01:00 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Woo go hacktivists lol
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