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Zodiac Killer’s Cipher Finally Cracked

• TameAntelope 5y ago
  (2020)
• ColinWright 5y ago
  Previous major discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25387216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25387216 There are more submissions, some have several comments ... you can find them here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Zodiac%20Cipher&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
• subsubzero 5y ago
  Somewhat old news, I think the only cipher of Zodiacs that has not been cracked is the link to his actual name.
• sys_64738 5y ago
  "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine."?
  • cbfrench 5y ago
    A crummy commercial?! Son of a bitch!
  • valbaca 5y ago
    mother fudge
• dgellow 5y ago
  2020
• ComradePhil 5y ago
  The most surprising and interesting finding from this article for me is that Majorgeeks is still around.
• paxys 5y ago
  "Finally" = December 2020 Worth noting that hard/impossible to crack doesn't automatically mean a cipher is good. One can easily scramble letters in ways that makes it literally impossible to decipher, but that defeats the whole point.