[HN Gopher] The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at ...
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       The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been
       solved
        
       Author : testfoobar
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2020-12-11 21:03 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
        
       | neom wrote:
       | David Oranchak who worked on cracking explainer:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | Guess this meme will be buried for good then:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz-Zodiac_Killer_meme
        
         | reitzensteinm wrote:
         | I am genuinely surprised I haven't seen an authentic looking
         | long form troll video that methodically decodes the cipher and
         | reveals at the finale text including "I am the soon to be born
         | Ted Cruz".
        
         | setpatchaddress wrote:
         | Nah. Ted Cruz is still the most likely candidate.
        
         | crispyporkbites wrote:
         | > That month, "is ted cruz the zodiac killer" was the second
         | highest suggestion in Google's autocomplete for "is ted", but
         | by April it was not in the autocomplete at all.[1][5]
         | News.com.au writer Matthew Dunn suggested that Google was
         | censoring the search term, showing evidence that it accounted
         | for 89% of total searches when compared to other terms in the
         | autocomplete
         | 
         | How often does google censor autocomplete? Does apple do this
         | on their keyboard as well?
        
       | anonymousDan wrote:
       | Is it just me or are there fewer serial killers these days?
        
         | nscalf wrote:
         | It could just be better policing. If you catch someone after
         | they kill once or twice, they don't get the chance to become a
         | serial killer. But I haven't looked up any stats on this.
        
           | StavrosK wrote:
           | Or they know how to hide better. We've always only caught the
           | stupid ones anyway.
        
       | KingMachiavelli wrote:
       | The "340":
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       | I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT
       | WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT
       | AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL
       | THE SOONER BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE
       | EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE SO THEY ARE
       | AFRAID OF DEATH I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE
       | IS LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH
       | 
       | The spelling errors a bit interesting. The video is also very
       | interesting.
        
         | ausbah wrote:
         | did the misspellings make it harder to crack the code? or was
         | this known from previous cracked ciphers?
        
           | mikeyouse wrote:
           | PARADICE was spelled the same across all of his previous
           | messages, so it's a really good indication that this cipher
           | was correct. This YouTube gets into the details of how they
           | cracked it:
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           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
        
         | rozab wrote:
         | The 'IS LIFE' was probably meant to go at the end.
         | 
         | "BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN
         | PARADICE DEATH IS LIFE"
        
       | nailer wrote:
       | > You can see their full and fascinating methodology in the video
       | below.
       | 
       | > This content is blocked. Contact the site owner to fix the
       | issue.
       | 
       | Anyone have the video?
        
         | mattstudio wrote:
         | https://youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o
        
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