The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[caligula123]

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Lol, bullshit.

Post what it means

No B.S, all they had to do was walk those pieces of paper into his employer and they would have known this guy for sure. He must have given them a real headache.

Let them have this first as I do not know what they want me to do with it and its possible others broke through it as well. I am really not sure to be honest as I know the industry and struggled, the use of various numbers put me onto it early, but its very hard to read.

 

[caligula123]

In my opinion this kind of thing is probably either:
1. A clever way to confuse the police if you murdered this man
2. It could be this guy saying, "if i'm going to kill myself, I might as well make the police involved confused as hell." *scribbles random letters on paper*

I haven't read all the comments, so I don't know if anyone's responded to you in regards to this along the lines I'm going to. If so, sorry to rehash things.

Anyways, There's a mathmatical bit that gives you an idea on whether something's a language or just random bullshit. If the FBI believes it's an actual code, it's probably an actual code. If you've never read up on the Voynich Manuscript (a text written in a language that's never been seen before or since, and has never been cracked), I definitely suggest it. It's a pretty interesting thing in a similar vein to this story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

This guy used an individual language, he was writing for himself only and that's why these notes were in his pocket. If you using a language you could come off as code without math. But he was just in his thing I guess.

 

[Urgh76]

snip

"Drink more Ovaltine"

 

[RantingLombax]

This reminds me of the Zodiac Killer case, they never did get anything useful out of those things.

Exactly what I was thinking.
FYI one the zodiac's codes has never been solved.

 

[zombieeater6000]

the 12 secret herbs and spices for kfc ? lol

 

[Eisenfaust]

this sort of reminds me of the end of the second season of green wing... where the two people swallow a key and an army figurine just before they drown themselves, specifically to fuck with whoever finds their bodies...

 

[Danpascooch]

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Lol, bullshit.

Post what it means

No B.S, all they had to do was walk those pieces of paper into his employer and they would have known this guy for sure. He must have given them a real headache.

Let them have this first as I do not know what they want me to do with it and its possible others broke through it as well. I am really not sure to be honest as I know the industry and struggled, the use of various numbers put me onto it early, but its very hard to read.

Considering you made an account just for this I'm starting to wonder if you actually did crack it, seriously, post as much of your "fairly complete translation" as you can, I'm curious to see it even if it makes little sense.

As for what to do with it, mail it here:

FBI Laboratory
Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA 22135
Attn: Ricky McCormick Case

As stated in the article.

What do you mean "let them have this first"? They aren't going to figure it out, they've tried, they can't, if you think you have it, mail it in.

 

[Danpascooch]

I'm pretty sure we've got someone here who can solve this, especially after that Puzzle adventure thing.
This story reminds me of the sculpture that resides at the CIA headquarters called Kryptos that holds similar lines of text. The artist, Jim Sanborn, assumed that the code would be broken within a year or two of the sculpture installation in 1990 but he's still dropping hints 20 years later so that the message is solved before he dies.
No one has solved it because they don't let people near the dam thing anymore.

Surely the text on it can be found online.....right?

 

[Buizel91]

the 12 secret herbs and spices for kfc ? lol

^ i'm going with this... xD

OT: This topic has turned into what i call a "Comedy Thread" everywhere i look something make me laugh XD

Anyway I'm stumped, However...

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Explain yourself O'Great one...

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Go ask 4chan.

They'll have it figured out by the hour.

 

[gellert1984]

I'm going to piss myself laughing when this is solved by a 12 year old girl from Ohio.

 

[Quaidis]

I use to do stuff like that when I was in grade school. The real pickle is if it's in another language pre-cypher.

The parts with the dashes looks half-ways like a computer signature code (or whichever it's called), or something similar.

 

[caligula123]

I broke this and have a fairly complete translation, it is not code which is why they cannot break it.

The guy used his own abbreviations and works in an industry that most do not know, I think the Feds might be disappointed though as its work related.

Good luck with it, took me 8 hours.

K

Lol, bullshit.

Post what it means

No B.S, all they had to do was walk those pieces of paper into his employer and they would have known this guy for sure. He must have given them a real headache.

Let them have this first as I do not know what they want me to do with it and its possible others broke through it as well. I am really not sure to be honest as I know the industry and struggled, the use of various numbers put me onto it early, but its very hard to read.

Considering you made an account just for this I'm starting to wonder if you actually did crack it, seriously, post as much of your "fairly complete translation" as you can, I'm curious to see it even if it makes little sense.

As for what to do with it, mail it here:

FBI Laboratory
Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA 22135
Attn: Ricky McCormick Case

As stated in the article.

What do you mean "let them have this first"? They aren't going to figure it out, they've tried, they can't, if you think you have it, mail it in.

I called them, there is no other way to go with it than the way I went with it and there are 3 separate confirming aspects, the numbers confirm the industry, the work confirms the industry, and the language is pure industry. It has to be this way.

I made an account because I picked this up on Drudge Report around noon, when I got through the first page I went to search for the original story to see if they mentioned his line of work. What I got was this thread and 20 other sites.

Guy was a blue collar worker, and the entire first page appears to be his work orders for the day and what he was to do. The second page is more complicated as there are series of numbers and some of those numbers are jumbled and out of sequence, when you get them in the right sequence they are for parts, materials, and numbers that can track information that they actually may want. But what I cant figure out is why jumble a 20 digit or 18 digit number??. Either you dyslexic or maybe there is something else. I really do not know.

I will call them in the a.m and tell them, then I will tell your what this guy is so you know. I guess I posted it here as it was actively being talked about and I got excited after blowing a whole day on it.

 

[dmase]

I bet it was more of an original "language" where one letter equals another. We can assume this high school drop out is a genius, its happened before but its an easier assumption that he made his own little translation thing that can't be solved without knowing what letter equals what. Direct translation not something clever.

Anyways i'm having some epic epiphany or something where the e are oddly shaped, looking a bit like the egr symbol for strain. Which is the change in length over the original length so lets give mathematical values to each of the words with the deformed e and take the total change between two letters so (6-5)/6 and either add the numbers up to create one letter or round for each number given. There are various egr equations you can willy nilly throw in their, its some genius mathematical formula created by someone who had no comprehension of engineering yet would stump even MIT professors in the end. Of course this is bullshit and the guy just has bad hand writing.

Speaking of MIT, if the FBI hasn't asked them already I bet they could create a program to discover the pattern. I'll give them a year, well a couple weeks if one of the grads is feeling like getting in the news.

 

[caligula123]

I use to do stuff like that when I was in grade school. The real pickle is if it's in another language pre-cypher.

The parts with the dashes looks half-ways like a computer signature code, or something similar.

I thought the same thing, and that really through me off. What it actually is is a split work order, so he put the second part of the work in parentheses as it would have been handled through another department, therefore generating a separate ticket.

 

[Sandytimeman]

I'm pretty sure we've got someone here who can solve this, especially after that Puzzle adventure thing.
This story reminds me of the sculpture that resides at the CIA headquarters called Kryptos that holds similar lines of text. The artist, Jim Sanborn, assumed that the code would be broken within a year or two of the sculpture installation in 1990 but he's still dropping hints 20 years later so that the message is solved before he dies.
No one has solved it because they don't let people near the dam thing anymore.

But you can buy exact replica's of it, and in the article he linked it even has all the code just straight out show two you in the 4 sections. So access to the data doesn't seem like an issue there.

 

[mxfox408]

Dude just wrote random numbers to fuck with us. He is one good troll.

OT: I'm really surprised it hasn't been cracked yet. It's probably what I wrote earlier in my post.

Haha this cracked me up lolz

 

[iliekmudkips]

I solved it.

The dude was dsylexic. /topic

 

[teknoarcanist]

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."