{"id":690,"date":"2012-07-12T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=690"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:46:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:46:37","slug":"reddit-either-cracked-homeless-mans-cipher-or-got-lured-by-brilliant-marketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/12\/reddit-either-cracked-homeless-mans-cipher-or-got-lured-by-brilliant-marketers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Either Cracked Homeless Man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cipher Or Got Lured By Brilliant Marketers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cipher-WEB\"<\/p>\n

Reddit is an internet hive, somewhere above, below, or in direct rivalry with the creative and news-breaking potential of 4Chan. Reddit can do great things, like supercharge a charity drive for a tormented bus monitor by 400 times its original funding goal<\/a>. Reddit can also do terrible things, like disbelieve and publicly shame a user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rape claim<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But post a neural challenge and the hive knocks back the moral kickstand and boots into high gear, as happened last night when a user posted about a homeless man handing him $50 and a massive sudoku grid littered with characters and numbers<\/a>. Within hours, the buzzing community deduced characters in Russian, Basque, and Hebrew<\/a>, ultimately culminating in user SirSpam28\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s revelation<\/a> that the century-old Bifid Cipher was in use. The unencrypted message: <\/p>\n

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There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plenty more money to make.
\nFigure this out and prepare to meet July 19th, 56th & 6th.
\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hot dog stand outside Rue57 cafe. Ask for Mr. Input.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Government spook theories aside, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m inclined to agree with the outpouring of other stories<\/a> Reddit users threw into the discussion about freak job offers cleverly encrypted by ultratech companies. It could also be an ingenious marketing ploy using a seemingly innocuous post targeted right at Reddit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skeptical heart\u00e2\u20ac\u201cin which case user delverofsecrets<\/a> is himself a secret to be delved (i.e. a corporate plant)! Circles within circles. CELLAR DOOR.<\/p>\n

Of course, as Mashable pointed out at the end of their post, who isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> going to show up at 56th and 6th on July 19th and ask for Mr. Input?<\/p>\n

\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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Reddit is an internet hive, somewhere above, below, or in direct rivalry with the creative and news-breaking potential of 4Chan. Reddit can do great things, like supercharge a charity drive for a tormented bus monitor by 400 times its original funding goal. Reddit can also do terrible things, like disbelieve and publicly shame a user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s … <\/p>\n

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