[mairdie]

Anyone else think this is really a Criminal Minds plot?

[WMarshal]

This is a bad idea all the way around.

[caligatrux]

Who are the dummies who do this stuff? Have they never seen a movie? This NEVER ends well.

[ThreeYearLurker]

Solved.

[pgkdan]

OK...that’s weird.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Next they need to apply it to Jack the Ripper.

I was really interested in the Charles Lechmere (sic Cross) theory.

[beergarden]

Did the computer say “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. “

[Red Badger]

[stylin19a]

yikes...the professor looks like the police sketch

[PGR88]

If this computer mergers with Sky-net, humans are really screwed....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Toughluck_freeper]

I read it had already been solved.
The few extra symbols at the bottom of the first letter decoded to an anagram of his name.

And someone else decoded the other letters as well, showing the same name.

Turned out to be one of the suspects, Arthur Leigh Allen, already dead.

http://www.tonypolito.com/zodiac.pdf

[faithhopecharity]

a supercomputer progammed to think like the Zodiac mass-murderer?

what could possibly go wrong with THIS?!

/sar

[RegulatorCountry]

I think Professor Knight appears to have an unhealthy fascination to the point of trying to look like the police sketch, myself.

[adorno]

A University of Southern California professor created an artificial intelligence software that was designed to help crack the code of the Z340, the Zodiac killer’s famous cipher.

I would be leery of that professor.

To get into the mind of a criminal, you have to virtually develop a criminal mind yourself.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I vividly remember the Zodiac Killer. He had my sister and me absolutely terrified after he threatened to shoot the tires of a school bus and kill everyone aboard (we were in school at the time). The thing is, the idea that he was all the way across the country in San Francisco for some reason just didn't make it through my skull. I was literally terrified he was going to be shooting the wheels of our school bus.

We were so terrified my mother actually had to lie to us and tell us that the police had killed a man who confessed as he died that he was Zodiac. That's the only thing that would get us to calm down. And it worked.

[MayflowerMadam]

There’s a mini series, “The Hunt For The Zodiac Killer” on the History Channel that started this week. This super computer and how it’s being programmed to “think” is being covered. Interesting.

[Grampa Dave]

The Z340 is the Zodiac’s famous cipher that was sent to police and newspapers during the serial killer’s murdering spree in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He shot and stabbed seven people, five fatally, in a 10-month period, between December 1968 and October 1969.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5090593/Super-computer-programmed-think-like-Zodiac-killer.html

What is amazing is how many of NSA’s Code Cracking military step children were assigned to bases which did code cracking in the Bay Area. AirForce, Army and Navy code crackers, and supposedly no one cracked Z’s codes.

About 2 years ago a book writer/author in this Post Zodiac area toured local libraries and touted his books about the Zodiac.

Apparently, one of our former military code crackers attended one of these lectures and made the following comments:

The Zodiac was Russian or one of its republics. He had attended either a Brit highschool or one of their colleges based on their analysis of his postings.

He concluded that, the higher up American spooks knew the above, and who the Zodiac probably was.

There would have been all types of fall out if that was true.

So the Zodiac spy, either left the area or had “an industrial accident.”