I say the first one knowing if the zodiacs antics distracted the police from boots on the ground beat work. Example of security by obscurity?
I say the first one knowing if the zodiacs antics distracted the police from boots on the ground beat work. Example of security by obscurity?
I think the fact that Zodiac wanted to communicate with authorities and the media tells you much more about the kind of person he was than the ciphers could.
A big problem with ciphers is that the more complex they are, the more likely the message will get scrambled in the encoding. An incompetent cipher is more secure than the best encryption methods; nobody can read it.