Practice of coding and decoding messages, and the related science.
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Has it been mathematicaly determined that the Voynich Manuscript is not gibberish?
A post on the CthulhuTech forum makes the following claim about the Voynich Manuscript:
Actually doing abit of digging and the view is very spilt those who feel its a cipher of some kind have ...
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Can diabetics with pumps be killed from a half mile away?
Black Hat: Lethal Hack and wireless attack on insulin pumps to kill
people Like something straight out of science fiction, an
attacker with a powerful antenna could be up to a half mile away ...
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The mystery of “Numbers Stations”
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From NoiseAddicts:
"Static. Faint voices. Seven slow, monotonous tones. A pause.
Suddenly, you hear music–one of those wind-up songs played by a
child’s toy. The melody repeats three ...
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Has PGP been broken by government intelligence agencies?
Has PGP been broken by government intelligence agencies?
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Does the NSA build backdoors into encryption algorithms?
There was a lot of suspicion around the design of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption algorithm, which is not used any more for its lack of security, regarding the NSA's involvement in its ...
