Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

art A sculpture at CIA headquarters has kept a coded message secret for 35 years Ellsworth Toohey

bitcoin NYT investigation names Adam Back as Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto Ellsworth Toohey

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

art CIA Kryptos sculptor disgusted by flood of wrong AI solutions Ellsworth Toohey

encryption This Kenny Loggins Password Generator is your off-ramp from the Danger Zone Thom Dunn

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

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

Weird Odd letters and numbers appearing on cars in Redding, California David Pescovitz

infosec This Welsh password generator might keep you safe from hackers, but definitely from dragons Thom Dunn

uk The world's preeminent cryptographers can't get visas to speak at US conferences Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Banksy's art authentication system displays top-notch cryptographic nous Cory Doctorow

floss Hide and seek: A catalog of useful steganography tools Cory Doctorow

crypto wars Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms Cory Doctorow

Business Sennheiser's headphone drivers covertly changed your computer's root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks Cory Doctorow

Technology World War II Enigma cipher machine up for auction David Pescovitz

cryptography How these lava lamps are securing the internet Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Puzzles that teach the fundamentals of crypto's essential, elusive zero-knowledge proofs Cory Doctorow

security Apple CEO Tim Cook demands Obama White House formally defend Americans' right to strong encryption Xeni Jardin

World War II Enigma encryption machine from World War II sells for $233,000 David Pescovitz