The "breakthrough" boiled down to something we all do in desperation: Google it. At a loss for other ideas, I started going through all the Google results for

The "breakthrough" boiled down to something we all do in desperation: Google it. At a loss for other ideas, I started going through all the Google results for “erzbir”. Imagine my surprise when, a few pages in, I came across the following page: http://easyciphers.com/remove http://easyciphers.com/remove As it turns out, “erzbir” is “remove” encrypted with a simple Caesar cipher. Every once in a while you get a happy ending instead of the dead end like the XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/