CICADA 3301- The most mysterious encounter on internet is this CICADA 3301 mystery.On January 5th,2012,an anonymous 4chan user posted a picture on RANDOMPORT.On the image it was written
"Hello,we are looking for highly intelligent individuals.To find them,we have decided a test.There is a message hidden in this image.Find it,and it will lead you on the road to finding us.We look forward to meeting the few that makeit all the way through.
Good Luck,
3301"
Though there was lots of grammatical mistakes in the post,many tried to decode this coded message but failed.At last,JOE ERICKSON,a Swedish computer Analyst decoded the message.He knew it was a digital steganography,where messages are hidden in the pixels of the image.He found a web address"Lxxt>33m2mgKyv2gsq3q=W]02ntk".He decoded every messages and each messages were harder than the earlier.Nobody knows where every code were decoded or not.
After one month,A Message was posted again on the 4chan message board as,
" Hello,we have now found the individuals we sought.Thus our one month long journey ends.
For now,
Thank you for your dedication and effort.If you were unable to complete the test,or did not recieve an email,do not despair.
There will be more opportunities like this one.
Thank you all,
3301."
Nobody knows who posted the codes and what was the motto of him or his group.some people says that CICADA 3301 was a recruitment process of some intelligence organisation like MI6,CIA etc,who were trying to find highly talented Code Breakers.On the other hand,some says these are the works of any hacking organisation related to Dark Web!The most interesting fact is that,this code message was also distributed in hard copies online around U.S.A,Russia,Poland,Japan,France and South Korea.After that every year on January 5th,a new puzzled code is posted by the name CICADA 3301.Nobody knows what happens to them who pass to decode the CICADA 3301.
Thanks,Stay Tuned.
