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A 200 year old cipher recently broken

This Excellent article in the WSJ described the recently broken Patterson’s Cipher. Dr. Smithline from the the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, N.J., got the cipher from a neighbour working on a school project about Thomas Jefferson. Make sure to check the interactive tab on the article for a very well done graphical description of the cipher.

h/t Paul

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That good old hacking.

After the Conficker April fool’s day scare fizzled, they try to scare us saying that utilities can be hacked through the internet …

Wait!, they already were hacked !

 

Filed under: InSecurity, Misc., in the News

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