It seems like they are working on stuff. But it is unclear how large or what the structure of the organization is. What they actually get up to continues to be

It seems like they are working on stuff. But it is unclear how large or what the structure of the organization is. What they actually get up to continues to be a mystery. It seems they did have a finalist do some work on something called CAKES (Cicada Anonymous Key Escrow System)... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cicada-solving-the-webs-deepest-mystery-84394/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cicada-sol... It sounds like they rolled up his brood through and the project never came to fruition. Which is too bad, because it sounds really cool. Whatever the case, the do have an air of secrecy around them. But yeah from what I can tell they're looking for talented individuals to work on crypto & privacy projects, which is awesome. Kind of reminds me of the old Telecomix folks. A site came up a while back cicada3301.org, and then was either debunked as not legit or something happened, and was promptly taken down... it is... still however online ... though the DNS no longer points to the server. I found this by doing a shodan search for Cicada 3301... http://185.92.222.67/ http://185.92.222.67/ (I've got a local copy backed up already in case the author of the site takes it down. But it's an interesting read.)