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  What is Cicada 3301 ? A mysterious enigmatic organization so called ‘ Cicada 3301 ’posted three sets of cryptographic internet puzzles between the year 2012 and 2014.  What were they trying to accomplish with those puzzles? Let’s keep reading to figure it out. The Puzzles :  A user on 4 Chan posted an image on the 4th of January, 2012.  The anonymous author went by the four digit name 3301, who challenged the users to find a hidden message behind the post. Those who stumbled acrossed the image had no idea that someone had just set in motion one of the most elaborated scavenger hunt the internet has ever seen. Within minutes of the image being posted, someone discovered that by opening the file using a text editor an appended string of readable text could be found. The string contained a cipher that, once deciphered, formed a link to yet another image. This appeared to a dead end at first but by using an application known as outguests, users were able to extract h...

Who was D. B . Cooper ?    A middle aged man carrying a briefcase walked into Portland International Airport, in the afternoon of November 24, 1971. He purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle, Washington. The man identified himself as Dan Cooper and, along with 36 other passengers and a crew of 6, he soon boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 305. Once aboard Cooper made himself comfortable in the middle of the last row of seats on the right side of the cabin. He ordered a drink and smoked because this was the 70s. Once the flight was cleared for departure, Cooper turned around and handed an envelope to a flight attendant named, Florence Schaffner.Inside the envelope, was a note with a handwritten message stating he had a bomb. Schaffner unwillingly sat down beside him and looked at what appeared to be eight sticks of dynamite inside his briefcase. Cooper’s demands were very simple. He wanted $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. He also demanded a fuel truck to stand ready to re...