I just updated The Cicada Files on Samizdat: www.therealsamizdat.com. 
Months of researching and writing went into the project--and bitter cyberwar. 
I open with a Prelude. 




The articles that follow were all published on January 9, 2020. 
I follow it with a definitive explanation of the Cicada Trademark and its present custodian, Mr. Marcus Wanners: Marcus Wanners & "Halfassed Journalism." (7,125 words). 
Then I segue into The Repugnant brotherBox . (4,361 words). 
I conclude with an opus: Z 3301 et al. (21,476 words). 




Interviews, August and September, 2019. 
These articles were preceded by my interviews with gHOST3301 and the former lead designer of Cicada 3301, Arturo Tafoya. Mr. Tafoya provided the graphics that I use to illustrate the series. He is an incredible designer, and responsible for the iconic visuals that made 3301 a cultural phenomenon. 
This interview broke ground as the first interview with an elder of the cypherpunk order, published September 2, 2019: gHOST3301 Interviewed . (17,466 words). 
The lead interview in the series was published on August 15, 2019:  Arturo Tafoyovsky Interviewed. (11,243 words). 




Work Ahead.
I am now finalizing the first interview that I ever conducted on the subject of Cicada 3301, an interview with the YouTube celebrity Manuel Chavez III. 
While the Chavez interview was the first, conducted on May 22, 2019, it is by far the largest, and likely to surmount 100,000 words when my research on its commentary is complete. 
When I finally finish the Chavez interview, I will interview other, more obscure elders of the order. 
I will conclude the work by massaging it all into a book length treatment, the first-ever analyzing the organization, functions and goals of a clandestine cyber order. 



What is the Point? 

I use the tools of political science to produce a work of history. 
As this works continues, I will give some thought to my YouTube channel, and upload videos that illustrate the series. 
I will archive all digital works on my PasteBin and on LBRY. 
I look forward to the maelstrom that this work will incite. 
Everything that I write is ultimately destined for oblivion. 
In the meantime, we shall reap the whirlwind. 
Estéban Trujillo de GutiérrezBangkokJanuary 9, 2020