Zodiac Killer’s Cipher Finally Cracked (opens in new tab)

Previous major discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25387216

There are more submissions, some have several comments ... you can find them here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Somewhat old news, I think the only cipher of Zodiacs that has not been cracked is the link to his actual name.

(2020)

"Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine."?

"Finally" = December 2020

Worth noting that hard/impossible to crack doesn't automatically mean a cipher is good. One can easily scramble letters in ways that makes it literally impossible to decipher, but that defeats the whole point.

The most surprising and interesting finding from this article for me is that Majorgeeks is still around.

2020