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Color me skeptical, but it seems like bullshit to me. The newspaper article has basically one source. The Wikipedia article dates from the day the newspaper article was published, and only has the article (and a reprint) as its sources. http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com doesn't seem to have any activity from more than 6 days ago. I'm really not a cyber-sleuth like the guy in the story, but the first two pages of Goo…
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>> "a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime" #include int main() { printf("%d\n",2147483629*2147483647); } $ gcc test.c -o test 2> /dev/null $ ./test 19
$ python -c "print '0x%x' % (2147483629*2147483647)" 0x3ffffff600000013
> 2147483629*2147483647
[1] 4.611686e+18
Why even use a clever dommainname? An IP address would work just as well.
Seems silly that is was a first come first serve basis for recruiting.
Is that going again? I did most of it a couple of years ago, got to the personalized e-mail stage before I decided to work on other things. It was strange how the pictures got put up all around the world at the same time, though.
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This mental floss article is a year old. http://mentalfloss.com/article/31932/chasing-cicada-explorin...
However, the "original" PNG image linked in the article does not contain the plain-text described in the article (at least, not visible in my hex editor). The pixels do contain some artifacts in the lower bits, though.
That said, this does seem like it's a bit, erm, big, to be a simple recruiting initiative, even if it is recruiting for the NSA or something. I'm leaning towards some movie / game promotion angle. There was at least one TRON reference in there, so maybe all of this is leading up to a TR3N announcement?
