[HN Gopher] The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | 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": | | 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: | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-12-11 23:00 UTC)