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[dna4ever]

Here's your chance to be the next Will Hunting.....03/29/11On June 30, 1999, sheriff’s officers in St. Louis, Missouri discovered the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick. He had been murdered and dumped in a field. The only clues regarding the homicide were two encrypted notes found in the victim’s pants pockets.Despite extensive work by our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), as well as help from the American Cryptogram Association, the meanings of those two coded notes remain a mystery to this day, and Ricky McCormick’s murderer has yet to face justice.“We are really good at what we do,” said CRRU chief Dan Olson, “but we could use some help with this one.”In fact, Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes are one of CRRU’s top unsolved cases. “Breaking the code,” said Olson, “could reveal the victim’s whereabouts before his death and could lead to the solution of a homicide. Not every cipher we get arrives at our door under those circumstances.”full story plus images of the actual codes .... http://www.fbi.gov/n...analysis_032911

[ajs510]

I was working on that last night for a bit...it's weird. Lots of repeating patterns of particular 4-letter combos, but I couldn't turn that into anything.

[digitalmonkey]

So the killer is a drunk Chrozzo?

[LongLiveYorke]

dna4ever, on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 10:11 AM, said:

Here's your chance to be the next Will Hunting.....

I think I'd be more like the kid from Mercury Rising, no? Anyone else remember that movie?

[ajs510]

LongLiveYorke, on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 11:48 AM, said:

I think I'd be more like the kid from Mercury Rising, no? Anyone else remember that movie?

Yeah, first thing I thought of as well.

[dna4ever]

LongLiveYorke, on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 10:48 AM, said:

I think I'd be more like the kid from Mercury Rising, no? Anyone else remember that movie?

Mercury Rising, A Beautiful Mind, Hackers, whatever.Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

[Roll the Bones]

http://www.examiner....ions-of-physicsThey should get this kid to do it.

[Mercury69]

Those letters look like serial numbers and /or authorization codes pertaining to either software use or computers of some kind

[ShakeZuma]

I've seen something like this before...

[ajs510]

ShakeZuma, on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 7:47 PM, said:

I've seen something like this before...

[Mercury69]

ajs510, on Thursday, March 31st, 2011, 9:42 AM, said:

That's pretty spacey...

[Pot Odds RAC]

Could be directions? I wonder if the numbers could be Interstates. I-74, I-75, and I-71 all converge in Cincinnati. Seems too simple. Gotta believe that the cryptographers would have been down that path in about the first 5 minutes.

[Spademan]

dna4ever, on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 8:57 AM, said:

Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

I've watched this movie more times that I've watched any other movie. This includes Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.This fact upsets me.

[chrozzo]

se7en!...?

[mtdesmoines]

It's just random scrawls, not a code.

[myenemy]

What am I burger welfare? I think you should establish a good line of credit!

[Mercury69]

Mercury Rising was on over the weekend, so I got to watch it. Not as good as Shutter Island...

[chrozzo]

i blame obama.

[mrdannyg]

chrozzo, on Thursday, April 14th, 2011, 12:42 AM, said:

i blame obama.

You are the goddamn king of posting completely pointless things a week after everyone else has stopped caring.

[ajs510]

mrdannyg, on Thursday, April 14th, 2011, 1:01 PM, said:

You are the goddamn king of posting completely pointless things a week after everyone else has stopped caring.

You're just noticing?