The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[Merkavar]

obvious troll is obvious?

only part i could make out was 'sence being' maybe something along the lines of a suicide note.

 

[thiosk]

He attempted to escape with the activation codes for Duke Nukem Forever.

Sadly, the duke stump-stomped him.

 

[mazeut]

This is clearly not your average high school dropout. These people, these "best code-breakers in the country", could break your average high school dropout's code in a fraction of a second.

Wouldn't your average high school dropouts amateur code be harder to break. He will likely not conform to any rules normally used in cryptography, hes making it up as he goes. Being a high school drop out also makes it less likely for him to have studied books on the subject. He could have just seen the Da Vinc Code, thought it was cool and began making his own.

For that mater it might not be a code, just short hand mixed with a homemade language or mutant phonetic spellings. There's several letter combos there that could be interpenetrated as shortened words but no recognizable punctuation or word structure otherwise. Punctuation could be hidden or nonexistent. It takes forever to piece together ancient, lost languages, and that's with a library of examples, not just two scraps of paper.

If I had to hazard a guess, I would say the numbers are not part of the code though.

 

[murphy7801]

Troll physics.

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 would minefield the whole scene with unreasonable amount of boobytraps.

Or just use mines something platoon buster level.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Looks like a one-time cypher: the letters likely represent a specific word or letter on a code sheet of either this man's or somebody else's device. Nobody will be able to solve it unless you have the original code sheet.

That'd be a simple, reasonable solution, yes.

Wouldn't your average high school dropouts amateur code be harder to break. He will likely not conform to any rules normally used in cryptography, hes making it up as he goes. Being a high school drop out also makes it less likely for him to have studied books on the subject. He could have just seen the Da Vinc Code, thought it was cool and began making his own.

No, that wouldn't help, unless everyone involving in trying to break it (and by extension, the world) has somehow overlooked something fundamental about ciphers that he managed to think up himself.

For that mater it might not be a code, just short hand mixed with a homemade language or mutant phonetic spellings. There's several letter combos there that could be interpenetrated as shortened words but no recognizable punctuation or word structure otherwise. Punctuation could be hidden or nonexistent. It takes forever to piece together ancient, lost languages, and that's with a library of examples, not just two scraps of paper.

That would be perfectly possible, yes. If you're mucking around with some form of language you've invented yourself, it's much more like a code than a cipher.

No one else seems to have mentioned it yet, but a code isn't the same as a cipher. A cipher is where you play around with the letters and replace them with other letters or numbers or so on. A code is completely different, it's where you replace entire words or phrases.

For example, if I say "Hello there", I mean "Hello there", but if I say "Hi there" I mean "the lizard people are coming for you".

You can't crack a code simply by sticking in a computer, you have to find a codebook or someone who knows the code. Alternatively, you can wait until the code has been used lots of times, and carefully watch the people giving and sending the messages and see what they do, but there's no guarantees that way.

 

[Baneat]

Forty two

 

[zxBARRICADExz]

i've been doing cryptography for a while..

and it looks like he's using more than one cipher..aswell as brackets... but without the context of the encryption or cipher nobody will ever know what it meens.

 

[AthlonX2]

GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First note:

This cycle of misery ends with me.

I am haunted by thoughts about apples and trees, I will shield S&S from a life filled with confusion, questioned allegiances, guilt, hopelessness, codependence, and insecurity.

We both loved each other but the evil world had its way. All that's good turns bad. All that's bad turns worse. It was a relationship filled with drinking and drug use. It became toxic and dysfunctional until it became violent. Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.

 

[Hiphophippo]

hmmm, any chance Cthulhu's involved here somewhere?

Close. You're thinking of this.

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

 

[whtkid6969]

"Note to self, need more notebook paper. Ran out of room on the last peace so i couldn't write down the key"

 

[Arikuza]

I'm waiting for the wiki page to go online, its bound to happen.

 

[sinestro1940]

"Remember to drink your Ovaltine."

 

[thingymuwatsit]

You can't crack a code simply by sticking in a computer, you have to find a codebook or someone who knows the code. Alternatively, you can wait until the code has been used lots of times, and carefully watch the people giving and sending the messages and see what they do, but there's no guarantees that way.

So this might well be another pointless endeavor that there is no strict answer to, making this either somebody trolling us or a convoluted FBI recruitment test.

 

[Nukey]

"The Game"

That son of a *****...

 

[mazeut]

No, that wouldn't help, unless everyone involving in trying to break it (and by extension, the world) has somehow overlooked something fundamental about ciphers that he managed to think up himself.

That's why you send amateurs to do field your field work. They come at things from their own angle and tend to notice things you have over looked. Take Jane Goodall or even Darwin as an example.

 

[rvdm88]

My guess:

A: it was a cryptical clue to prevent the death of someone that would die a year later, being 2000, though because it wasnt solved the guy still got to die...


B. The note was written by:

Problem FBI officer???

 

[Thaluikhain]

You can't crack a code simply by sticking in a computer, you have to find a codebook or someone who knows the code. Alternatively, you can wait until the code has been used lots of times, and carefully watch the people giving and sending the messages and see what they do, but there's no guarantees that way.

So this might well be another pointless endeavor that there is no strict answer to, making this either somebody trolling us or a convoluted FBI recruitment test.

Well, if it was a code, they'd not know it was.

No, that wouldn't help, unless everyone involving in trying to break it (and by extension, the world) has somehow overlooked something fundamental about ciphers that he managed to think up himself.

That's why you send amateurs to do field your field work. They come at things from their own angle and tend to notice things you have over looked. Take Jane Goodall or even Darwin as an example.

Neither of those people were really amateurs. Goodall got her PhD when she was 28 or thereabouts, and Darwin had studied in various fields before embarking on the Beagle, and his ideas about natural selection only came together after he'd got back from that.

Yes, there is all sorts of things probably waiting for an inquisitive mind who doesn't know better to find, but I'm not sure there'd be many in the area of cryptography, it doesn't seem like the sort of industry where that would happen.

 

[MajWound]

You need the code word. Hasn't anyone here seen The Prestige?

 

[Jodah]

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.

I was really thinking that. He knew he was gunna die so he decided to have one last laugh and troll the FBI.

 

[ENKC]

As a recruiting tool, this could work whether it's intentional or not. And is there such a thing as a code that can't be broken without more information? I would presume so, but these clever sausages seem to think they *should* have enough to go on.