<story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Excuse&lt;/i&gt; me?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Sure... the &amp;quot;surface&amp;quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   #include &amp;lt;stdio.h&amp;gt;
   int main() {
       printf(&amp;quot;%d\n&amp;quot;,2147483629*2147483647);
   }
   $ gcc test.c -o test 2&amp;gt; &amp;#x2F;dev&amp;#x2F;null
   $ .&amp;#x2F;test
   19&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Excuse&lt;/i&gt; me?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Sure... the &amp;quot;surface&amp;quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;There, a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That made my eyes bleed, but OA has given me a superb Maths revision lesson for some bored teenagers. I&amp;#x27;d already planned to get them decoding a ROT13 text by reference to letter frequencies, and now this &amp;#x27;quest&amp;#x27; as well. Nice.</text></comment>