The Internet Mystery that has the World Baffled

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The Internet Mystery that has the World Baffled

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

One evening in January last year, Joel Eriksson, a 34-year-old computer analyst from Uppsala in Sweden, was trawling the web, looking for distraction, when he came across a message on an internet forum. The message was in stark white type, against a black background.

“Hello,” it said. “We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised 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 will make it all the way through. Good luck.”

The internet mystery that has the world baffled - Telegraph


What an interesting treasure hunt! And to what ends, the player is not sure. The player almost has to have OCD to play but it sounds like incredible fun. MENSA members only, I would assume!