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Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-heard-of-pgp-and-email dept.

boggis writes "Discovery is running a story on Bernardo Provenzano, the recently arrested 'boss of bosses' of the Sicilian Mafia. He apparently wrote notes to his henchmen using a modified form of the Caesar Cipher, which was easily cracked by the police and resulted in further arrests of collaborators. Discovery's cryptography expert describes it as a code that 'will keep your kid sister out'."

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  1. Proving once again... by BadDoggie · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Security through obscurity doesn't work. (And how much more obscure can you get than a 2,000-year-old-code?)

    Actually, what it tells you is to stay in school, kids. This mook dropped out when he was 8.

    woof.

  2. Re:How many letters are in the alphabet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, you got us. We dumb Americans are the proverbial kid sister mentioned in the article. Or, are we more like the "dumb" mob boss who has been in power his whole life despite his many enemies? Or were you just trolling? On a side note, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?