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Code Crackers
Topic Started: Apr 8 2011, 07:17 PM (319 Views)
brenda
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http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911/cryptanalysis_032911


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http://digital.davisenterprise.com/opinion/our-view/fbi-seeks-code-crackers/

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FBI seeks code crackers
The issue: A stumped FBI asks for help in decoding decade-old message
In the delightful 1983 movie “A Christmas Story,” Ralphie excitedly sends off for a Little Orphan Annie decoder ring. The ring arrives and Ralphie sits down before the radio to decode Annie’s secret message to her followers. Ralphie frantically works his decoder ring and is crushed when the decrypted message reads, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
On a more somber and serious note, the FBI is asking all the adult Ralphies out there who never lost their fascination with codes for help in unscrambling a code that has stumped their expert cryptanalysts for over 10 years. The answer could potentially solve a murder.
On June 10, 1999, the body of Ricky McCormick, 41, was discovered in a cornfield outside West Alton, Mo. He had last been seen five days before.
McCormick had been fascinated by codes since childhood and on his body was two sheets of paper with about 30 lines of what was apparently his private code, a seemingly random mix of letters, numbers and parentheses. The coded sheets and the FBI’s request for the public’s help can be seen at 1.usa.gov/evCb2i.
If you can crack the code or think you know how to, there’s a Web address on the site to report your findings. It perhaps say something about the FBI’s stubbornness that it’s waited this long to ask for the public’s help and something about the rivalry among intelligence agencies that it’s never made a similar request of the code breakers at the National Security Agency.
McCormick’s encrypted message may be every big as prosaic as “drink your Ovaltine.” After all, it could be his grocery list. But if you crack the code you’re going to be deservedly a lot more excited than the disappointed Ralphie.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Stainweggie
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You crackers got a code now???
I have a 6' Stainweggie
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brenda
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Stainweggie
Apr 8 2011, 07:19 PM
You crackers got a code now???
I knew you'd show up. :lol2:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/fbi-wants-help-in-decoding-mysterious-notes-found-on-mans-body/2011/03/31/AFNQ4bCC_blog.html
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Taquisha
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I likes me some crackers..


You ain't even SEEN a mad black woman til you read my diary...
Larry be my baby daddy
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SILENCE!












I keel you!
SILENCE! I keel you!
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