I've suspected a Cicada connection for a while since the use of puzzles to tease Vault 7. Here's some more leads I've found:
The most obvious: Cicada 3+3+0+1=7, aka Cicada 7
Note in that image: "THE PRIMES ARE SACRED... ALL THINGS SHOULD BE ENCRYPTED"
Watch this video about the mathematical lifecycle of the Magicicada, which lives underground sucking up plant moisture, emerging only every 13 or 17 years (both prime numbers). Their most recent emergence since 2000 happens to be occurring right now in the Spring of 2017, incidentally as Vault 7 is becoming public.
My hunch is that the former U.S. government hackers and contractors circulating CIA hacking tools amongst themselves mentioned in the release for Year Zero are, or are a part of, 'Cicada 7'. They've been deep in the Intelligence Community for the past decade+ siphoning out information and compiling it in 'Vault 7'. It's now time for the information to emerge from the underground.
The 12-page legal brief alleges that in the 20 years between 1996 and 2016 that Martin worked with government, he stole a staggering 50 terabytes of data in digital form and an additional six banker's boxes full of printed documents... Martin's cache of stolen data is also believed to have included information on top-secret hacking tools developed by US intelligence agencies, the New York Times reported this week, citing unnamed sources.
Their current puzzle also seemed to predict Year Zero, with a website featuring countdown clocks proclaiming "7 is sacred", which changed to "7 has arrived" on the day of Year Zero's release:
10 weird coincidences about Vault 7 and Cicada 3301
Cicada 3301 has also echoed WikiLeak's philosophy in the past and seems concerned with protecting whistleblowers:
"We are a group of individuals who have proven ourselves much like you have by completing this recruitment contest, and we are drawn together by common beliefs. A careful reading of the texts used in the contest would have revealed some of these beliefs, that tyranny and oppression of any kind must end, that censorship is wrong and that privacy is an inalienable right."
Now that the new brood had been taken in, the 3301 members told them, they would be tasked with creating software that fit the ideology of the group. In discussions on the darknet site that ran for weeks, the recruits decided to create software to protect whistle-blowers like Chelsea Manning, who was facing trial at the time.
Submitted March 25, 2017 at 03:23PM by freewayricky12 http://ift.tt/2nqyaOQ