Yes, it is very intruiging isn't it? Not yet sure what to make of it. I can't do the maths to make any sense of that and just on using or trying to understand the symbology it does lead to some very interesting places. Grand cosmic joke? Poetry? Enlightenment? All of the above? I see that David De Graw is gathering us for the Wave of Change? Things that make you go mmmm.....
I had to Google David de Graw just to find put who he is. Doh!
Last year appears to have been the final year in what appeared to be a search for highly capable and smart computer geeks. 2015 was a blank with no further messages.
So, I'm going to make an immense leap in intuition. I suspect Cicada 3301 may have been a recruitment drive for the hacker group Anonymous.
In any case there has been some recent very curious behaviour by Facebook who took down the Anonymous sub group Red Cult that was exposing thousands of ISIS recruiters using FB as a recruiting tool.
And then after protests FB reversed their decision.
Interesting. I was actually thinking about Cicada and what was happening and did a search for it yesterday then this morning I find your post here!
I think it may be what you suggest also David. It sort of fits the bill. I know this group also. They have been doing VERY good work in this area. You will see that their websites are almost exclusively hosted on Cloudflare servers.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/qesdj
Thanks to Maggie I have just watched a 4 part series on cracking the Cicada 3301 puzzle The first Youtube link is below and from there the other three are available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatbYqc0...ddXRPK55i8
The solution remains, as yet, unsolved. My best guess is that those chasing this mystery have not delved deeply enough into the aspect of esoteric knowledge and the associated disciplines of occult ciphers, Gematria, Notariqon and the deeper mysteries of Qabalistic lore. Obviously just guessing though.