Mission Impossible

[Peikko 1,575]

I like this, a lot.

The most celebrated inscription at the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, used to be the biblical phrase chiseled into marble in the main lobby: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." But in recent years, another text has been the subject of intense scrutiny inside the Company and out: 865 characters of seeming gibberish, punched out of half-inch-thick copper in a courtyard.

It's part of a sculpture called Kryptos, created by DC artist James Sanborn. He got the commission in 1988, when the CIA was constructing a new building behind its original headquarters. The agency wanted an outdoor installation for the area between the two buildings, so a solicitation went out for a piece of public art that the general public would never see. Sanborn named his proposal after the Greek word for hidden. The work is a meditation on the nature of secrecy and the elusiveness of truth, its message written entirely in code...

It goes on, it's worth reading but I know the attention span of most VJ OT'ers

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I read that story - the guy thought the code would be cracked in short order, but its turned into the holy grail of cryptography.

The article about the Georgia Guidestones in that issue was interesting too.

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Sanborn needs to be waterboarded.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sanborn needs to be waterboarded.

He's supposedly been hassled by fringe bible nutters as some sort of satanist.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Waterboard him in public. Let's find out if it works.

[Peikko 1,575]

Waterboard him in public. Let's find out if it works.

Of course it works, if you want to know if someone is a witch it works very well. I guess witches are extinct though, because it hasn't been done for a year or two now.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well that's easy - witches float on water. Like ducks and very small rocks.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Attention span? What attention span? I think that.....

[fozzie 41]

Well that's easy - witches float on water. Like ducks and very small rocks.

It's probably jibberish!!! I hope dearly that it is a huge joke that he is playing on the CIA and it means nothing.

[Peikko 1,575]

It has a solution but as for having a meaning? It's artistic, so it'll have an esoteric meaning.

[DeadPoolX 9]

I like this, a lot.

The most celebrated inscription at the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, used to be the biblical phrase chiseled into marble in the main lobby: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." But in recent years, another text has been the subject of intense scrutiny inside the Company and out: 865 characters of seeming gibberish, punched out of half-inch-thick copper in a courtyard.

It's part of a sculpture called Kryptos, created by DC artist James Sanborn. He got the commission in 1988, when the CIA was constructing a new building behind its original headquarters. The agency wanted an outdoor installation for the area between the two buildings, so a solicitation went out for a piece of public art that the general public would never see. Sanborn named his proposal after the Greek word for hidden. The work is a meditation on the nature of secrecy and the elusiveness of truth, its message written entirely in code...

It goes on, it's worth reading but I know the attention span of most VJ OT'ers

Link

When I first read that, I thought of DC Comics and some sort of Superman reference.