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FBI Asks Public to Help Decode Baffling Notes From 1999 Slaying

Investigators trying to solve the mysterious death of a Missouri man 12 years ago are asking for the public's help in deciphering coded notes found on the victim in what has become one of the top unsolved cases in the FBI's cryptanalysis division. "We will take any help we can get," Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles...

Scholar Claims to Have Unlocked 'The Plato Code'

LONDON (June 30) -- A scholar unlocks a code buried within ancient Greek texts to discover secret messages left by a long-dead philosopher. This isn't the plot of the next Dan Brown novel, but the result of an English academic's five-year-long study of Plato. Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester claims that Plato...

Background on code

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type.

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