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On the side he invented a precursor to the Vigenere cipher, a code so strong it took three centuries to crack.
FORBES: I've got a secret
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But what we have instead is a game that hands you a key and tells you to go find a lock, or gives you a cipher and tells you to go find a code.
FORBES: An Attempt to Understand BioShock Infinite's Brilliant and Bizarre Ending
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Fincher, working with a fantastically detailed script by the young James Vanderbilt, chronicles the case of the self-identified Zodiac killer, a taunting, publicity-mad creep who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late sixties and sent confessional notes about the crimes (sometimes in cipher) to newspapers.
NEWYORKER: Zodiac