The Internet mystery that has the world baffled
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The Internet mystery that has the world baffled
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#2Drink your Ovaltine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
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#3ITS: 4chan goes mainstream...again
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#4click bait headline, this should have been edited.
subtitle is "Cicada 3301 online mystery enthralls codebreakers around the world"
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#5Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of this series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301116/
Very popular with the teens in my family with fantasies of being whisked away 'cause they're just so damn smart.
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#6> Tor [... is] estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web
Am I missing something? That obviously isn't correct.
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#7I've visited HN every day for years. How the hell is this the 1st time I've ever heard of this?
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#8Complicated puzzles full of red herrings, medieval European literature references, music... this sounds like the work of 1057.
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#9> Tor [... is] estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web Am I missing something? That obviously isn't correct.
You are not missing something the author has obviously mixed up the "dark web" and tor.
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#10Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of this series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301116/ Very popular with the teens in my family with fantasies of being whisked away 'cause they're just so damn smart.
I used to harbor similar fantasies (witness my username and the television series 'Pretender'). But you can't just put some supergenius 8-year-old in a special school and have 'em pop out with the diligence required to achieve great things early in adolescence.