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Crowdsourcing a modern means to crack code on Civil War texts
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Posted on 07/03/2016 11:32:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:32:13 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Too bad we don’t have an agency dedicated to code breaking. Ohe wait, we do. But it’s too busy missing terrorists, chasing Snowden for explaining their illegal domestic spying, and would be thrown into paralytic shock that something from the 1860s might not be politically correct.
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:38:58 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: BenLurkin
The government has cash to study lesbianism in Oregon bullfrog, but something like this, they are suddenly budget hawks.
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:40:29 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: BenLurkin
NO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE JOKES
Pleaze
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:42:14 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: BenLurkin
Back then, gentlemen did not read each other’s mail
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:44:09 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: 2banana
Ok, but i wonder if any of them say “John has a long mustache”.
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:47:19 AM PDT
by
KrisKrinkle
(Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
To: BenLurkin
So they’re “owned” by an organization in Kaliforniastan
To: BenLurkin
Why crowd source it? If you have they key, give it to one programmer with a few good servers.
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posted on
07/03/2016 11:53:16 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(Trump For America.)
To: BenLurkin
I broke the code. It says:
"Send more Chuck Berry!"
To: KrisKrinkle
I translated one that said "Joan has a bong mouse ache."
Maybe I should re-examine that decrypt key ...
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posted on
07/03/2016 12:05:01 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: KrisKrinkle
Or perhaps “The dice are on the carpet’’.
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posted on
07/03/2016 12:24:32 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: jmacusa
SOS,everybody in the army had to know that...
It was breakfast, Sh&#t on a shingle...
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posted on
07/03/2016 12:47:50 PM PDT
by
late bloomer
( Neglegere homo pone aulaeum. semi-retired warlord)
To: justlurking
“Bring a .38 to the play that night”.
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posted on
07/03/2016 2:23:07 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: BenLurkin
I think one of them said something about Laboulaye’s Lady.
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Sounds like a good summer project.
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posted on
07/03/2016 5:36:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: BenLurkin
I’ve decoded most the telegrams through 1862:
“Attack. Attack! Why is no one attacking??? We have more of everything than they do. Attack ‘em where they ain’t if you’re afraid of casualties! We have a Navy, too! USE IT! KEEP USING IT! ATTACK!!!A. Lincoln.”
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posted on
07/03/2016 5:47:08 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for this. Looking into it right now.
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posted on
07/03/2016 6:18:23 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: BenLurkin
sounds really goofy to me. They never were decoded?
how could you send some one a message if you weren’t sure they would be able to decode it so they could respond best?
They must have had huge communication issues during the war.
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posted on
07/03/2016 8:28:24 PM PDT
by
b4me
(Idolatry is rampant in thoughts and actions. Choose whom you will serve....)
To: Smellin Salt
Huntington built the Southern Pacific. His library and garden are used by scholars.
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posted on
07/03/2016 8:51:31 PM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors)
To: b4me
sounds really goofy to me. They never were decoded?
how could you send some one a message if you werent sure they would be able to decode it so they could respond best?
Certainly they were decoded when they were received at the front, using code books no longer available.
They only have the originals.
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posted on
07/03/2016 9:03:19 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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