https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-scie...
An academic paper with the solution here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2023.2...
The initial blog post about the piece of paper in the dress:
https://commitmentocostumes.blogspot.com/2014/02/bennetts-br...
For me this raises as many questions as it answers in some ways. I have no idea why it would be hidden away like that.
(from the first link)
This claim doesn't make sense. If the words of the telegram encoding for weather information are compositional rather than lexical, most of them shouldn't exist in English. How does it happen that all of them are extant English words? What happens if my observation of the dew point temperature needs to be encoded "luft" instead of "left"?
Keep in mind: the encoding process was meant to be more expensive to encode than to decode - each weather station only had to send out (encode) a few reports per day, but the receivers had to process (decode) hundreds.
I suspect the use of words, as opposed to just sequences of letters or numbers, was to improve robustness: it would be easier for operators to transmit recognizable words correctly (and error-correct them if need be) than if they were transmitting strings of random letters.
https://books.google.com/books?id=vICPCHgtPtkC&newbks=0&pg=P...
or she was a spy/compromised and stealing secrets from her employer that she was as clueless about as any casual observers today; she did this on the daily but she died or got arrested this particular day. maybe her husband wanted the weather for his horsetrack gambling ring or something.
for every actual important encrypted message, there are a ton of similar messages and message transports of lesser importance.
(i'm assuming it's not the case that this is the plausible deniability part of some sort of steganography scheme)
I'm going to have to use a corkboard and some red string to sort out everything that's happening here.
My guess is that the message must have had some other meaning in some way, even if personal, or that there's something about putting paper in the pocket for tailoring reasons?
Maybe she just needed a place to put the message and forgot about it.
