DataDan
Mama says he's bona fide
From SFGate:
youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o
Speaking of codes, divers in the Baltic cleaning up lost fishing nets recently found this:
It's a Nazi Enigma coding machine, probably thrown overboard to keep it out of Allied hands. From the Smithsonian article:
After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher has been solved.
If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people have come forward saying they’ve cracked it. But the solutions were all a little off and almost always required some illogical gymnastics, like ignoring whole chunks or omitting certain inconvenient characters. This solution is different. It references an event that just occurred and has several key phrases that Zodiac used in other letters. It reads:
With an amateur interest in decryption dating back to my Captain Midnight Secret Decoder Ring, I was most impressed by the extraordinary effort of a few code hackers to solve the problem:If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people have come forward saying they’ve cracked it. But the solutions were all a little off and almost always required some illogical gymnastics, like ignoring whole chunks or omitting certain inconvenient characters. This solution is different. It references an event that just occurred and has several key phrases that Zodiac used in other letters. It reads:
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
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
youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o
Speaking of codes, divers in the Baltic cleaning up lost fishing nets recently found this:
It's a Nazi Enigma coding machine, probably thrown overboard to keep it out of Allied hands. From the Smithsonian article:
Ulf Ickerodt, director of the archaeological office in Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein region, tells the DPA that the newly discovered Enigma machine will undergo cleaning after spending seven decades underwater. The contraption will then go on display at the local archaeology museum. All told, he says, the restoration process will take “about a year.”
This is why you never let the boss estimate a project. :rolleyes
