A good summary from the point of view of one participant:<p><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/meet-teenage-codebreaker-who-helped-solve-cicada-3301-internet-puzzle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wnyc.org/story/meet-teenage-codebreaker-who-helpe...</a><p>At the end:<p>> "On this web portal, there was a chat system, a forum system and a bunch of things set up so we could all communicate," Tekk said. "I guess their goal for us was to have this elite programmer society where we would make encrypted or anonymous services that would serve everybody."<p>> "Once we succeeded, once we were part of this thing, once we were working with them, we kind of lost interest," he said.
Does anyone else find it odd that an organisation looking for "highly intelligent individuals" started at 4chan's /b/, of all places.
This is the wikia page of the process
<a href="http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wiki" rel="nofollow">http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi...</a>
The Wikipedia article does a bad job on giving any larger perspective, that is, the fact that this is a drop in the ocean of hacking and cryptography wargames. [1]<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.wechall.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.wechall.net</a>