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    Zodiac Killer's cipher solved

    in MillenniuM Behavioral Analysis & Criminal Profiling

    Posted

    Hi folks,

    you've probably heard the news already. How exciting!


    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/11/us/zodiac-killer-cypher-340-code-trnd/index.html

     

    (CNN)More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer's mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.

    Dubbed the "340 cipher," the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers -- David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician.
    Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:
     
    "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me
    That wasn't 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 will be an easy one in paradice death."
     
    The TV show the message refers to is "The Jim Dunbar Show," a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.
    "It was incredible. It was a big shock, I never really thought we'd find anything because I had grown so used to failure," Oranchak, who's been working on solving the killer's messages since 2006, told CNN.
    "When I first started, I used to get excited when I would see some words come through -- they were like false positives, phantoms. I had grown used to that. It was a long shot -- we didn't even really know if there was a message," he said.
    The trio took their findings to the FBI a week ago, but didn't reveal their breakthrough until the FBI's confirmed cleared by the authorities, they said.
     
    The Zodiac Killer is most known for leaving a trail of five unsolved murders between 1968 and 1969. He was never caught, but he gained notoriety by writing letters to police and local media up until 1974, sometimes in code, boasting of the killings.
    Bloody bits of clothing were included with his letters as proof of his actions. He claims he killed as many as 37 people.
    The FBI said in a statement that the case remains an ongoing investigation for the bureau's San Francisco office and its local law enforcement partners.
     
    "Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time," the statement read.
     
    The San Francisco Police Department has also been made aware of the solved cipher, and said the information has been sent to the department's cold case homicide investigators.
     
    Oranchak detailed the process for cracking the cipher on his website and in a YouTube video, where he used a specifically developed decryption software and a bit of luck to finally make the connection. The team used a unique program to sift through 650,000 variations of the message. In one, a couple of words appeared.
     
    "We got really lucky and found one that had part of the answer, but it wasn't obvious," Oranchak said, explaining that they then had to handpick their way through to decipher the rest of the message.
    The only disappointing part, Oranchak said, is that the missive contained no personally identifying information.
    Oranchak holds out no hope for solving the two remaining ciphers. He described the mission as "almost hopeless," as both are very short, with thousands of different names and phrases that could fit.
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    The Walking Dead - BEWARE - SPOILERS! - not MM, but a very good series,too :) (Spoiler function won't be used any more, so read at your peril!)

    in TV Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Viivi

    Lovely teaser for season 6!

    Btw, i bet you can't guess which actors are kissing on that video. kissing.gif

    https://youtu.be/1WhnOE90fN0

    Edit: I'm so sorry: the video is gone from Youtube now. I had no idea it had apparently been posted by a channel that didn't have permission to do so, or something. (The whole channel has been terminated.) Maybe if i can find the video elsewhere, i'll post it here again.

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    The Walking Dead - BEWARE - SPOILERS! - not MM, but a very good series,too :) (Spoiler function won't be used any more, so read at your peril!)

    in TV Discussion

    Posted

    Here's a link to an interview with Tovah Feldshuh (Deanna). One small detail from there: she says they will continue shooting in May. I hope they will let something leak out again (pics, etc.) as they progress.
    The picture below is from a fan site.. My sweethearts! wub.gif
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    The Walking Dead - BEWARE - SPOILERS! - not MM, but a very good series,too :) (Spoiler function won't be used any more, so read at your peril!)

    in TV Discussion

    Posted

    When it comes to the final episode in general: i liked it very much, and it had a lot of action which is always good. Something seemed to be missing, though. Not sure what that was. (Please don't get mad at me whip1.gif )

    Btw, what Morgan said to Daryl after saving him and Aaron made me like him even more because it's the exact same thing my mother used to say: "All life is precious". Foolish or not, it's a beautiful thought.

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    The Walking Dead - BEWARE - SPOILERS! - not MM, but a very good series,too :) (Spoiler function won't be used any more, so read at your peril!)

    in TV Discussion

    Posted

    Simon, how do you get all these small clips of the show? Do you edit them out yourself, or are they on a site somewhere? I'm impressed. notworthy.gif

    Michonne understands Rick, but someone had to step in and attempt to bring him back from the dark side, or he will doomed like Shane, who slowly lost it. Also, I believe Michonne has had enough of Rick's B S. Rick literally pushed Carl away, something he would never do with a clear head. There has to be something about Jessie I haven't noticed yet that reminds Rick of Lori. Anyone else see it? He is definitely love struck. wub.gif

    I love those clips, too. Thanks for posting them, Simon!

    Can't really think of anything in particular about Jessie that could remind Rick of Lori.. But: she is attractive, someone outside Rick's group that's genuinely nice and treated them kindly from day one, plus she gave him a haircut which can actually be a pretty intimate thing, so... wub.gif
    About Deanna: it will be very interesting to see her actions in the final episode, because i'm not at all sure that she believed either Gabriel's or Nicholas's lies. Just look at her face when she watches the video of Nicholas's interview after the trip that killed Aiden and Noah.
    Nicholas: - These people have to go. They are not like us. I know you see it.
    Deanna: - You don't know what i see. I see a great deal.
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