Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto

repvik writes "The 1500-page manifesto of the terrorist who killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya two weeks ago contains a series of seemingly encrypted URLs. There are 46 of them, and the initial part of the URLs appear to be GPS coordinates. An effort to analyze the codes have been launched."

Comments

Re:Why is this being made public?

[jeffasselin]

The alleged perpetrator of the terrorist attack posted the manifesto online himself before going on his rampage, and everything in there is on the internet and people have been reading and analyzing it since.

Re:Why is this being made public?

[physicsphairy]

Your points remind me of a fortune I read recently:

"A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the
  last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security
  or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discus-
  sion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a
  premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fal-
  lacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more
  than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew
  a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among them-
  selves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in what-
  ever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto
  been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of *honest* persons to know
  this fact, because the *dishonest* are tolerably certain to be the first to
  apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to
  give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too ear-
  nestly urged, that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, be better
  for all parties."
-- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks,
      published around 1850