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Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa

Posted by Unknown on from the brought-to-you-by-lisp dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new cracking contest to cryptanalyse a William Gibson poem. The electronic poem ('Agrippa') was written back in 1992 and self-encrypts after being displayed once. The person who successfully cracks the encryption will win a copy of every published Gibson book." The poem/program binary was recovered in 2008, but it looks like no one has managed (bothered?) to crack the code.

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  1. Re:"win a copy of every published Gibson book"?? by realmolo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's true. I just re-read the "Sprawl Trilogy" in the last couple of weeks, just to see if "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive" were any better than I remember. They weren't. They're tedious-as-fuck.

    "Neuromancer" is great, but Gibson went up his own ass after that.

    Still, he wrote "Neuromancer", which gets him a lifetime pass.