The FBI Needs You to Solve this Code

[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.

 

[Enzeru92]

ALIENS NO DOUBTS ITS ALIEN CODE!!!!!!!!!!

OT: no idea seems interesting enough seeing as the FBI is asking for help

 

[FungiGamer]

Huh..... "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"?

 

[Gaderael]

I believe the first part goes:

"I was here
But now I'm gone
I left my name
To turn you on..."

And it so it goes.

 

[DaHero]

I need an ANIMUS, and Leonardo Da Vinci...

 

[Podunk]

They're Game Genie codes. Obviously.

 

[theultimateend]

if the FBI hasn't cracked this yet, then it's probably gibberish. in my amateur opinion, there are way too many repeated letter patterns for this to be any kind of polyalphabetic cipher and a simple substitution cipher would be trivial to solve.

the dashed lines like "KLSE-LKSTE-TRSE-TRSE-MKSEN-MKSE" on the second page are particularly suspicious in how repetitive the letter patterns are.

Well the letter combinations could actually point towards single characters. It could be a 6 letter word. Or a 6 digit number.

Placing a value of some kind on each letter to come to a final number.

Same with previous pieces, the letter combinations could be in chunks that shorten to a certain letter depending on which ones are in what order.

But then again, the mona lisa COULD be a code...it's not...but that's the power of the word could I suppose.

 

[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

 

[Danpascooch]

What if they decode it and it just says "You spent years studying this, you fools!"

That would be awesome.

Personally if I get diagnosed with a terminal illness, I'm going to kill myself, and leave a note in my pocket that is a string of letters from a random number generator, just to fuck with everyone. I have to ask, who would code these messages anyway? It could actually be trolling, there seems to be no reason for it.

 

[xdom125x]

It hurt my brain. Besides that, one line stuck out to me. "D-w-m-y MIL XDRLX".
D... MIL can represent the words: day, week, month, year and millenia. I have no clue on XDRLX . [sarcasm]Maybe he is laughing and telling us to relax.[/sarcasm]

 

[caligula123]

The guy moved really fast and wrote notes for jobs with non standard abbreviations, then he added serial numbers, and various numbers with no punctuation.

They should have known it was not code, there are a ton of redundancies in the letters and he used the same abbreviations for different applications, if it were code he would have had to utilize other letters and this guy was not that smart really.

Its a real nightmare, and he must have done good work where he was or he would have taken a lot of heat from supervisors for his writing. Its a *****.

Best,

K

 

[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

 

[caligula123]

The guy moved really fast and wrote notes for jobs with non standard abbreviations, then he added serial numbers, and various numbers with no punctuation.

They should have known it was not code, there are a ton of redundancies in the letters and he used the same abbreviations for different applications, if it were code he would have had to utilize other letters and this guy was not that smart really.

Its a real nightmare, and he must have done good work where he was or he would have taken a lot of heat from supervisors for his writing. Its a *****.

Best,

K

 

[Koeryn]

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