Wikipedia and the Zodiac Killer
Zodiac, a serial killer whose identity still remains unknown, continues to make headlines, most recently in the murder of Megan Touma, when a newspaper received a letter from someone purporting to be the killer, who will "start using my role-model's signature". A friend on IRC noticed that the John F. Kennedy page on Wikipedia had been defaced with a message, purportedly from Zodiac. Within 30 minutes, the message had been decrypted:
vandaljzing wikipedia is so fun it is funner than killing people or having sex because when you kill people you only destroy their bodys but when you vandalize this website you kill the soul of the poor queer pig slaves that devote their lives to the embarkment that i am now destroying with my own bare hands
Rough timeline of events:
- Google indexed the same message in the William McKinley Wikipedia article.
- sbp noticed that there were 26 unique symbols, suggesting a simple substitution cypher.
- sbp provided a simple symbol-to-character hash, for use in online solvers.
- ianivs used a cracker to solve it in 6395041 attempts.
- The folks in #wikimedia found the template changes.
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can we just stop with this cover up for racism and slayings of mixed race couples in the area?
you know they tested the DNA of every child at the junior high in Benicia as soon as the tests were developed in the 80's... but not evidence of the one 'serial killer' in the area. hmmmn... and all my teachers at high school had stories about, oh i dunno, couples being tragically left for dead in the hills because they were of mixed races or our best athlete ever being shot in the head in the city park because he was black and boastful of his skill at running...with a rifle.
The zodiac is quite scary i know.But is anyone to know if the zodiac is still alive? data shows that in march 2007 he strikes again. A man had a hypothesis that his step father could possibly be the zodiac killer. He has many photographic pictures, a hooded coat, and a blood crusted knife. No one knows his DNA and probably never will. He could be anywhere right now. Washington, maybe, California a deffinite maybe. He is still leaving letters and signs, even a code. Can anyone break this code? Invastigators need as much information as they can possibly can. If you know annyone please contact someone right away.
-12 year old giiirrl lol (: thanks
i find the killer fascinating. i am trying to find all the information i can about him in hopes of maybe getting lucky enough to solve the case myself. i will have help from whoever i can find, and i will do whatever i have to do to find who this is. until then...
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