FBI Confirms Zodiac Killer's Infamous 340 Cipher Has Been Decoded, And His Message Finally Revealed

https://www.iflscience.com ^ | December 28, 2021 | James Felton

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!..................

[laker_dad]

In before the ovaltine comments?

[Michael.SF.]

Is this the guy that decoded it?

[BobL]

On The Donald they call Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer. It’s funny as hell, and even Cruz goes along with it.

[Michael.SF.]

LOL — Just barely!

[Boogieman]

“couldn’t put the effort in to give his spelling a quick double-check”

This writer doesn’t really know what they are talking about. Zodiac intentionally put many mispellings into his letters to throw off the authorities, perhaps to give an impression that he was an uneducated person so they would be put on the wrong track.

It’s also a common technique in cryptography to insert intentional mispellings into the plaintext, because this increases the difficulty of decrypting the code, while reducing the readability of the plaintext very little.

[j.havenfarm]

Obviously he was someone who didn’t know that paragraphs, punctuation, and spell check are our friends

[unixfox]

So, THIS is what they have been working on.

[Red Badger]

Didn’t have a computer back then....................

[T.B. Yoits]

W H A T S T H E F R E Q U E N C Y K E N N E T H

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Wow, expose of Ted Cruz’s dad.

[Robert DeLong]

Based on this, it's pretty incredible that he was able to come up with a cypher complicated enough to fool the FBI for years but couldn't put the effort in to give his spelling a quick double-check, or maybe ask a friend to: "look, try not to read too much into the content but can you have a quick check that my grammar's ok".

Could also be that he intentionally misspelled words on purpose to make braking his code even harder. But I find it ironic that this writer included that, when so many spelling and grammatical errors exist in articles nowadays.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Just 76 seconds under the wire! Good shootin’ Tex.

[telescope115]

Fascinating. It sure would be nice to know who the Zodiac Killer was.

[Bon of Babble]

The FBI is aware that a cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by private citizens.

This was the best part.

[Red Badger]

My guess it was intentional misspellings and grammatical errors...................

[TangoLimaSierra]

"WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND ALL THE I HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES"

Sounds very muslimy.

[dforest]

I thought it said “Let’s Go Brandon”?

[Joe 6-pack]

Further evidence that somebody using ALL CAPS is likely to be a psychopath.