FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery
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#2Just goes to show how dead a language Lisp really is when even the FBI can't find someone that understands the code.
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#3This appears to share the same ciphertext characteristics as traditional prison kites.
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#4If I ever murder anybody, I'm going to leave a lot of "encrypted notes" around. It will turn out that one is a review of a restaurant and the other is just random noise.
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#5Richard Feynman totally would have cracked that one!
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#6I have a nephew who has Asperger's Syndrome - severe. One of the things he loves to do is invent languages and list thousands of words as a dictionary and even write short stories with them. The image seems to have just a touch of the same feel. Significant repetition (NCBE) and limited variation of the letters (E is overrepresented). The story hints that the victim wasn't competent mentally. It mentions he could read and write; why mention that unless people would think he couldn't for some other reason?
Anyway, just a thought, probably doesn't mean anything.
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#7Really intriguing. The first page has 'p1' up in the corner, which makes me think the sequence of the pages might matter...
The whole thing reminds me of pages in my notebook where I kept all of my Windows and Adobe license codes.
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#8I kind of wonder if this is an alternative to the old "You've won a free trip, come to this location to collect your prize" used to catch criminals on the lamb.
It seems like this might be a ploy to tempt the ego of the murderer into providing the decryption of his own note. In other words, solving this puzzle may land you directly on the suspect list.
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#9I hit someone with my car in 1999. It was like turrets syndrome. The shrinks employ actors to fuck with me. I used to feel bad, but when you go messing with someone's reality, all bets are off. How would you react to UFO's, terminator robots or secret agents? It's anybody's guess, but kinda funny justice if it was a shrink actor--always pushing buttons.
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#10I know that it isn't practical for the FBI to publicize the approaches that they've attempted in deciphering this, but I'm very discouraged by the prospect of spending time on what might be simply redoing a small corner of a failed effort by someone much more qualified.