# Cicada 3301

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cicada-3301/233997>\
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**Created:** [November 25, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cicada-3301/233997 "2013-11-25T12:58:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cicada-3301/233997/1 "2013-11-25T12:58:16Z")

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> **[The internet mystery that has the world baffled](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-internet-mystery-that-has-the-world-baffled.html)**
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> 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

Interesting read. There are some wacky things on the web.

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**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cicada-3301/233997/2 "2013-11-25T13:06:32Z")

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I read that earlier. What’s weird to me is how ‘public’ it has become despite it’s attempt at secrecy. The one account from a former ‘member’ was interesting:

> One long, cautionary diatribe, left anonymously on the website Pastebin, claimed to be from an ex-Cicada member – a non-English military officer recruited to the organisation "by a superior”. Cicada, he said, "was a Left-Hand Path religion disguised as a progressive scientific organisation” – comprising of "military officers, diplomats, and academics who were dissatisfied with the direction of the world”. Their plan, the writer claimed, was to transform humanity into the Nietzschen Übermensch.