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Voynich Manuscript Structural analysis of Voynich Manuscript reveals features of natural language Rob Beschizza

encryption Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr dead at 107 Rob Beschizza

serial killers Zodiac killer's unsolved code "behaves like fake ciphers" and therefore probably a ruse Rob Beschizza

art Someone left mysterious symbol-filled booklets in a London bookshop Ellsworth Toohey

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music BLP Kosher: the fun Floridian Jewish Rapper with deep references Elías Villoro

fbi Crazy story about a guy who got an FBI record at age 12 for making a secret code with his friend Mark Frauenfelder

Games Get inside the mind of a cat with the game "Stray" A.E. Gómez

crime French software engineer may have cracked the Zodiac killer's code David Pescovitz

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

security ISO rejects the NSA's IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored Cory Doctorow

politics Crowdsourced sleuthing exonerates politician viewing "dirty" pic Andrea James

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security Audit reveals significant vulnerabilities in Truecrypt and its successors Cory Doctorow

surveillance BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats Cory Doctorow

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family Isis Adventure: Worst. Puzzle. Ever. Ron Garret

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