Very intriguing! Cicada 3301 | Vital Football

Very intriguing! Cicada 3301

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-internet-mystery-that-has-the-world-baffled.html


For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301

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I'm guessing it's GCHQ or NSA or a.nother shadowy government organisation on a recruitment drive.

The next puzzle will be released on Jan 4 - I know a few guys who are taking time off work to get onto it (and yes they are proper geeky nerdy hacker cryptographer types)
 
Funny old world we live in.

Luckily I'm far too thick for puzzles so will leave well alone!! I need straight forward logic to operate.
 
Reference to Silence of the Lambs apparently, rev (although that was a moth), and something to do with the fact that they emerge every 13, or 17 years to avoide their predators...

What significance that has, i have no idea

As i say, all very intriguing to me