FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case

Where's the NSA when you really need 'em?
 
Skillz? Code-breaking skillz? I hope their code-breakers have better detective skills than the writers of the article.

Dan
 
Did it ever occur to the FBI that those notes might be actually just gibberish, and not an encoded message?
 
Hey, I get it! It's such a secret code, that only the killer knows how to break it. Brilliant on the FBI! At least that's how it works in the movies.

Didn't the Zodiac killer have some ciphers that were broken by some regular folks?
 
Matthew said:
Hey, I get it! It's such a secret code, that only the killer knows how to break it. Brilliant on the FBI! At least that's how it works in the movies.

Didn't the Zodiac killer have some ciphers that were broken by some regular folks?
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Actually the victim wrote it...and had apparently been writing notes to himself in code his whole life never telling anyone how to read them.
 
I think it's a pretty good idea. Without revealing any state secrets, they get to unearth some undiscovered ace cryptonanalysists. Or whatever they're called.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Did it ever occur to the FBI that those notes might be actually just gibberish, and not an encoded message?
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Or a type of shorthand to himself to remember things and not intended as communication to others. At least that's what it looks like to me.

I sometimes write quick highly cryptic notes to myself that look similar to weather reports or flight plan routing only without an organized pattern. It's all extremely context based depending on the subject I was thinking about at the time and my total knowledge experience. Breaking those short messages to myself when all the letters change meaning constantly to unrelated things will send the decrypting people to the screaming bonkers nutter farm.
 
but you're not dead in mysterious circumstances...
 
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