Friday, April 1, 2011

The Perfect Virus could help the FBI

Tuesday's Network World carried the story of the FBI asking for crypto help in solving a 1999 murder. The victim, 41-year old Ricky McCormick of St. Louis, had these notes in his pocket. According to his family, the street-wise drop out had used a secret code for making notes since he was a boy, but nobody in the family ever learned his system. The notes are said to be written up to three days before his death. If you want to see a larger version of them, go to the FBI site here. Below are the notes:


Principle #7 of The Perfect Virus, BLACK BOX PORTABILITY, might well be part of the decryption answer. Unfortunately, since Ricky McCormick is dead, the presentation and ACK/NACK process to virally infect Ricky's "alien architecture" can't move forward. Nevertheless, as I develop my fictional "suspension of belief" technology scenarios, Ricky McCormick's secret code gives me some intellectual displacement activity. Along those lines, should any of my überhacker readers crack the code, I'd appreciate your cc'ing me in your correspondence with the FBI. And if my Wolfram|Alpha and/or Mathematica experiments bear fruit, I promise to post my solution in this blog (right after I send my note to the FBI, assuming the solution doesn't compromise the FBI's nabbing the murderer).


NOTE: Solved by JOSEPH from SPAIN and reported in my post of 16 November 2011.
Posted by Destroying Angel at 4/01/2011 09:50:00 AM

4 comments:

  1. JOSEPH from SPAINNovember 15, 2011 at 5:45 PM

    Is Shorthand and Cesar Code B

    Look note 2, last line, said:
    "O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX"
    Can you see what letters are repetead?
    Can you remember HAL 9000?

    --If X= Variations of letter C (MC, C, CK)
    --If L= M, m= N and H= I
    --If O=O, W=W and R=R
    --If 4= for and 8= A by phonetic solution
    Then: OWN FOR I AM MCCORM(i)CK.

    --It is the signature, testament and last will of Mccormick.

    bye

    The Solution for FBI and the treasure map: http://prophecyexperimentalzone.blogspot.com/

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    1. JOSEPH from SPAINMarch 29, 2015 at 1:34 PM

      Hello mr Bennett

      + The definitive translation of the last line of the 2nd note is: OWNY I AM MCORM(i)CK

      The translation "OWN-4 = OWN-For" or "OWN-Y = OWN-Why" was not satisfactory by the hyphen.

      + My hypothesis is that the hyphen joins letters to form a word

      + So the hyphen is a punctuation mark used by Mccormick to join letters and to separate words of a single word.

      + Then "O-W-m-Y" must be one word, NO two words, "OWNY"

      ..... but i did not find this word in my book, a dictionary english-spanish until a few days ago on internet.

      The word "owny" can be found on the Internet Collins English Dictionary: "owny-o or ownsome" http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/owny-o

      OWNY is a informal noun.

      Sp "O-W-m-y H8L XORLX" is transcribed
      "Owny i am Mcorm(i)Ck" and means
      "On my ownsome i am Mcormick"

      Basically is not a big change but that, my hypothesis is confirmed.

      Bye from Spain.

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  2. Destroying AngelNovember 15, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Thanks, Joseph from Spain. So, uh, the FBI are idiots, eh?

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  3. JOSEPH from SPAINNovember 22, 2011 at 12:58 PM

    Hello.

    --Do not be so hard with the guys from the FBI.

    --I think the case Mccormick was never a priority, besides who would do FBI career in deciphering the text of a vulgar thief in St. Louis (MO)?

    --It is a classic problem of transcription and it seems that nowadays nobody reads Edgar Allan Poe´s "The Gold Bug".

    --I do not know if it ever really tried.

    --I seek solutions everywhere. I have problems to properly configure the Windows Mail and i go to tried Hotmail.

    Bye.

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Implementation suggestions for THE MORGAN DOCTRINE are most welcome. What are the "Got'chas!"? What questions would some future Cyber Privateering Czar have to answer about this in a Senate confirmation hearing?

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