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/ TABLE OF CONTENTS /|| | ~~ L i B e R t O r I a N ~~ |
/__________________________/||/ { -- Volume 1 --- Issue 15 -- }
||| ||| { Spring, 2016 }
||/ It's a table! Get it? ||/ { }
{ A Publication of Synonymous 1. }
ACQUIRING RELAY..........3 YET AGAIN { Published March, 2016. }
{ }
LETTERS TO LIBERTORIAN.......4 AGAIN { -- }
{ }
BLURB..............................5 { LiberTORian is published on an }
Aaaaa(many a's)aaND... LEGALIZE LSD! { irregular basis. }
{ }
FEATURE............................6 { N(c), 2016. Readers are welcome, }
The Laffer Curve, And How It Relates { actually encouraged, to copy and }
To the Tax Code { distribute this text by any means }
{ possible, preferably by photocopy- }
EXTRANEOUS.........................9 { ing. }
We are less free than we used to be { }
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ARTICLE...........................10 { LIBERTORIAN HAS A DEEP WEB SITE: }
Stealing the Vote Part 1 { http://xsold3pvbxt4xblv.onion }
The Electorial College { }
{ (Thanks to an Onionland user. }
BLURB.............................11 { The views expressed in LiberTORian }
People Are Discussing LiberTORian { aren't necessarily those of the }
{ webmaster. That's fine with us }
FEATURE...........................13 { libertarians. }
Cryptology For Dummies, Part 2 { }
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FEATURE...........................16 { CORRESPONDENCE: }
Wolf In The Fold: { libertorian@sigaint.org }
Father Gregorio, Part 2 { }
{ Send submission & letters to }
COVER STORY.......................19 { LiberTORian at the above address. }
Apple Bytes Back! { }
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EXTRANEOUS........................23 { DONATE TO LIBERTORIAN: }
Who is & isn't intellectually honest { 12yfpaKCHL7XCdWGiM8x9nuaBw1TbW1q2s }
{ Even a millibitcoin! }
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ARTICLE...........................28 { DON'T HURT PEOPLE }
Television Watches Us Back { AND DON'T TAKE THEIR STUFF. }
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A C Q U I R I N G R E L A Y }}} - by Synonymous 1 - {{{
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Dear Reader, we meet again! Every- Actually, the liberal way is to set
thing just got a whole lot more com- up a double standard where this only
plicated with Justice Scalia's death applies to liberals or statists, and
in February. Statists are making a conservatives or libertarians are
lot of confusion about what must evil for even thinking that the same
happen next. LiberTORian will look standards be applied to them. Chuck
at the source itself: the United Schumer of New York is already say-
States Constitution, and see exactly ing that to hold up any nominee's
what is and is not permitted. vote in the senate is disgraceful
and that the Democrat party would
One thing is certain: any nominee *never* do that. Resourceful people
from Obama will be a statist. The everywhere shared video of Schumer
unfortunate collateral damage to the pledging that any W. Bush nominee in
Constitution under statists is their the next 18 months will be blocked!
ability to put anti-Constitutional
justices to the bench. And whenever My problem is not with liberalism,
a statist nominates someone, the but with hypocrisy. Unfortunately,
spineless weasels in the Republican hypocrisy seems to be synonymous
party never show the courage to with the word "democrat". It's so
block him/her, no matter how detri- pervasive there, and in statist-lib-
mental to the law they are. eral politicians that it's rare to
find anywhere there *isn't* a double
Let's examine the two Obama picks standard.
who plagued the Supreme Court:
We'd like to continue our series on
o Sotomeyer: A racist who uses the basic cryptography, and hoped you
law as a sword to strike down enjoyed what appeared in issue 14.
equal justice share your comments on it with us.
o Kagen: A communist who admittedly Or email address is
uses the laws of other, oppres-
sive countries as a basis for - libertorian@sigaint.org -
her decisions, giving them prec-
edence over the Constitution of And if you enjoyed the magazine, you
the United States may send LT a bitcoin donation at:
Both are anti-Constitutionalists. 12yfpaKCHL7XCdWGiM8x9nuaBw1TbW1q2s
Just as in honor of Ted Kennedy (for We strive to make LiberTORian the
reasons I still don't understand), most amazing txt files you ever saw.
we HAD to pass Obamacare because he It is a lot easier to just write in
just died and that's what he'd want- this format, but we want this to be
possibly the stupidest reason to visually stunning, making the .txt
enact an illegal, destructive law- format something that's never been
why don't we honor the legacy of seen before and demonstrating the
Justice Scalia? Scalia is one of potential to take the format to a
individual liberty's most noble de- new level, proving that it still can
fenders. Isn't the best way to be relevant and aesthetic, even in
memorialize his legacy to appoint to this day and age! We hope you enjoy
the Supreme Court someone who shared this issue, and we will continue to
his values? It's the liberal way. make this as nice as we can! ((L))
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.----------------------------------. DEAR KHEPER,
| ------ ## |
| -- --- ## | After reading the official statement
| | from Comcast, LiberTORian retracts
| Letters | the article from issue 14. The ar-
| to | ticle was based on news from deep
| LiberTORian | dot web, and further research led to
| | clearnet sites that support the ru-
'----------------------------------' mor.
**
DEAR LIBERTORIAN
AMERICAN YAHOOS,
I noticed that the Ted Cruz poster
on page 31 of Issue 14 had the word Your magazine makes me sick! Every-
KOOK in his hair! How appropriate! thing you write has a pro-American
-TRUMP2016 bias! We Europeans are so much more
enlightened and don't need your pre-
tentious dribble!
DEAR TRUMP2016, -Anonymous
"Kook" is actually commonly produced
from text generater programs and are DEAR ANONYMOUS,
never a subliminal thing. For in-
stance, right in the same issue, you The main writers are from America,
can see "kook" in the images of the and like it or not, where we go, the
children saluting the flag. It's on world follows. And unlike most of
the flag on the cover. It's in the Europe, the idea of individual lib-
picture of Father Gregorio. IT'S IN erty is still a prevailing concept!
EVERY PICTURE IN THE ISSUE! AMAZING And as a libertarian, I honor your
FACT! That's just one issue. I bet God-given right to *NOT* read Liber-
you can find lots of kooks all over TORian, and to make your own maga-
LiberTORian! The only words we ever zine espousing socialism, not that
intentionally placed was the word, it's such an original thing in the
"rats", in the image of Bernie San- deep web.
ders on the cover of issue 11.
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C O R R E K ^T I O N
Hold on. Comcast is - in many re- / \C
spects - a rotten ISP, but they are &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
not anti-Tor.
Comcast was the victim of an inter- LiberTORian published an article in
net rumor. See their official state- issue 14 misrepresenting Comcast's
ment: position on Tor and the deep web.
http://corporate.comcast.com/ After further research, prompted by
comcast-voices/setting-the-record- a reader, we learned that the blurb
straight-on-tor was based on a rumor.
Comcast is not asking customers to LiberTORian wishes to set the record
stop using Tor, or any other browser straight. Even if some of us here
for that matter. We have no policy have problems with other aspects of
against Tor, or any other browser or Comcast, we never want to misinform
software. our readers with incorrect infor-
-Kheper mation about them, or anyone. ((L))
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---<|iiii|=8 --<|iiii|=8 --<|iiii|=8 But from another point of view, drug
abuse *does* hurt others. Drugs
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand... have torn families apart, led to
Legalize LSD! theft, deceit, and destruction to
people known by the user. Many of
The one area that holds back a lot us have seen the destructive results
of Libertarians of people using drugs. This is the
____ ____ ____ reason I so vehemently despise them.
---<|iiii|=8 --<|iiii|=8 --<|iiii|=8 If a person destroys his own life or
even dies from drug use, they face
the consequences for their own ac-
By Synonymous 1 tions. There are many who use drugs
and the drug use seemingly doesn't
But what about drugs? This is the affect others. But personally be-
question that is is hard for a lot ing the victim of the drug use of
of libertarians to wrap themselves others, and seeing other loved ones
around. In the world of the deep harmed by it, I want something to
web, it's not hard to find people be done to ensure the consequences.
who advocate drug use. A large num-
ber of deep web visitors are here to But how can that be done? What kind
solely access drugs, and they come of laws can stop the hurting? The
from the entire political spectrum. war on drugs is an expensive failure
But a lot of people, including my- so how can more laws fix things and
self, who would otherwise be liber- not restrict freedom further?
tarian, have a problem with it.
I don't have the answers. As I con-
This is not going to be a discussion tinue to evolve, I struggle with the
on whether or not drugs should be issue. These are the questions I
legal. There are many places for a ask myself. Isn't it understandable
discussion of that nature, and as a that a person who finds themselves
libertarian, I'll leave it to you to libertarian on most issues can have
decide your own stance on the issue. problems with this one, and still be
The reason for this is to explain libertarian in most other respects?
my personal struggle with the issue
and the nature of that struggle. As I figure out how to be true to
myself and remain consistent, there
The phrase, "Don't hurt others and are two things that keep returning
don't take their stuff", was coined to my mind:
by Matt Kibbe of freedomworks.com,
as a way to succinctly explain the 1) Believing in a person's right to
libertarian philosophy. And I un- use illegal drugs also means that
derstand that a person is free to the person must take personal re-
make his own decisions. If a person sponsibility for his actions.
wakes up today, does he work hard,
or does he shoot hard drugs all the 2) A libertarisn's belief that some-
time? It is ultimately his decision one has the right to use any type
to choose his path, as long as no of drug does not mean that the
one is hurt in the process. But person who believes in the right
rights and responsibility go hand in does not condone the behavior.
hand; you can't have one without the _______________
other without being inconsistent. 8=['''|'''|'''|'''}>-----
therefore, if the consequences of
your actions inflict damage upon I think that I can accept these two
yourself, no one is obliged to get concepts, even if I have trouble
you out of your situation. If you accepting drug use. And isn't that
dig yourself into a hole, it's not much the minimum that is asked of
my job to get you out. libertarianism? ((L))
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This article is two economic lessons After his first week of selling coco-
in one: The supply and demand curve, nuts, Gilligan raises his price to $3
and the Laffer curve. Most people per coconut. One of his four steady
are familiar with or are at least a- customers thinks this is too high and
ware of the supply and demand curve. decides to spend $2 per day on fish
But since the two operate similarly, from now on. But Gilligan still has
and since millennials and other pub- three loyal customers and he noticed
lic school students don't learn this that at $3 per coconut, he makes $9
basic economic principle, it will be per week instead of $8!
described here. Its relationship to
the Laffer curve will become appar- Gilligan thinks, if his worked be-
ent. before, it will be even more profit-
able if I do it again. So next week,
To explain supply and demand, which the price goes up to $4 per coconut.
goes by the term "The demand curve", Once again, he loses another of his
let's return to the island where we loyal customers, but now his profits
explained the nature of economics. disappear. With only 2 loyal custom-
(See the article, "You'll Never Get ers buying $4 coconuts, he makes only
Rid of Money", in LiberTORian Issue $8 daily again.
10). There are several people on
the island, some who collect shells The principle of the demand curve is
which represent dollars. One person that if prices are too high, the de-
on the island sells coconuts, and mand will drop, and if prices are too
another sells fish. The fish guy is low, the demand will increase. There
there because, like in a real econ- is a second principle that there is
omy, people have more than one sales an optimum price on the demand curve
option. As an example, the man who where profits are highest. In Gilli-
sells coconuts sells them for $2. gan's case, that price is $3. If we
("$" means $hells.) Over several plot the sales of coconuts at differ-
consecutive days, he sells 4 coco- ent prices, it forms a parabolic
nuts, earning $8 daily. trend. Since we've come up to the
end of a page without enough room to
Our coconut salesman, who we'll call draw the chart, this article will go
"Gilligan" for short, thinks that if rambling on for a second while we
he raises the prices of his coconuts fill this page up with something to
he'll make more money. So he does. prevent it from being blank.
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T H E D E M A N D C U R V E buying imports. As always, when the
government gets involved, it inter-
$6 | * feres with the natural order, and
| there are always negative side ef-
C $5 | * fects.
C O |
O C $4 | * The Laffer curve is to taxation as
S O | the demand curve is to commerce. It
T N $3 | (*) was popularized and named for Arthur
U | Laffer, a respected economist who
O T $2 | * worked in the Reagan Administration.
F S 1.5| * Laffer explained that, like the de-
$1 | * mand curve, there is an optimum rate
'------------------------- of taxation which brings the maximum
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 amount of revenue to the government.
SALES If the tax rate is above or below
this point, the government will
Observe how sales figures become bring in less money.
progressively poorer as Gilligan's
pricing goes farther away in either The United States' current tax rate
direction from the optimum price of of 39.4% is well above the optimum
$3: rate. This means that if the rate
was much lower, there'd be MORE mon-
T H E D E M A N D C U R V E ey going to the government!
$6 | * $6 During four years of Jimmy Carter,
| the top marginal tax rate shot up to
C $5 | * $6.25 a whopping 70%! Ronald Reagan re-
C O | duced it to 28%, kicking in in 1983.
O C $4 | $8 * Tax revenues DOUBLED as a result.
S O | The deficit rose, too, but that's
T N $3 | $9(*) because congress spent at triple the
U | rate when the new funds came in.
O T $2 | $8 *
F S 1.5| $7.13 * Why did this happen? Wouldn't high
$1 | $6 * taxes mean more revenue? Economists
'------------------------- say 70% is perfect! Are they wrong?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yes! If the top rate is 70%, and if
SALES you had to pay out 70 cents of every
dollar you earned to a government
The demand curve demonstrates that that didn't do any of the work you
there is a best price for everything did, would *you* try to make enough
and a merchant must do their best to money to get you into the top rate?
find out what that price is. Neither did millions of other peo-
ple. And so they did whatever they
This is a natural principle. Natur- could to make as much as they could
ally, government likes artificially *without* attaining the top bracket.
interfering with it, because they This also limited hiring and led to
discovered a corollary: if you want higher unemployment- which led to a
to restrict a product, make it ex- reduced tax base. The Laffer curve
pensive. If you want more of it to works just as the demand curve; when
be bought, make it cheaper. Statist taxes dropped, people were more pro-
administrators will, for example, ductive and hired new taxpayers, all
subsidize corn because they want which led to increased revenue.
people to put more of it in their
gas tanks. They will put tariffs on Fox News discusses Ted Cruz's flat
imports to discourage people from 10% tax plan, but criticized the
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the debt to rise because lower tax
rates meant that there would be less WE ARE LESS FREE THAN WE USED TO BE.
income coming to the government. It
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of the Laffer curve, because the new
Obama tax rate is well above the op- - Extraneous by Synonymous Xi -
timum point.
We always hear about liberals saying As I dove into the deep web, I found
that we need more money to fund the a statist pseudoanarchist blog site.
bloated government programs and make One recent entry was about how free
them even bigger. And a lot of them we are compared to the past. I took
understand the Laffer curve. So why a minute to laugh but read on. The
don't they reduce taxes, knowing it article was about how Americans in
would result in more money for them? the past couldn't own a telephone;
Because one thing is more important they were phone company property.
to them than money: power! With It was rather unconvincing, and for
higher taxes and regulations, the a thinker, actually counters itself.
federal government has greater power We are to conclude we're more free
to control the people. For example, because of one example? Do you know
the more people on welfare, the more the reason we couldn't own a phone?
influence the politicians have on Government regulation. Deregulation
tham, as they are dependent on their in the 1980s opened the phone revo-
staying in office to keep them in lution. It ended half a century of
supply of just enough the make them stagnation.
continue the cycle of dependency,
almost guaranteeing their vote. A Government regulation in this decade
high tax on something they hate, say is out of control. Look at health
Slurpies or firearms, stifles their care. A LiberTORian reader whom I
purchase. And the IRS scandal is a call Ms. B has an autistic teen girl
prime example of using big govern- who is beginning to have white blood
ment to intimidate and bully people cell problems. Her insurance didn't
out of their free speech rights. carry the hospital where she needed
new tests so she switched during the
I recall an economist who asked a government-approved period. On Jan-
typically shortsighted left wing uary 1st, the family doctor dropped
politician how much the government the new insurance, although she made
would make if they took 100% of sure to switch to one that they cov-
everyone's wealth. It was some num- ered. Now the girl lost the special
ber under a trillion, less than what needs friendly doctor who knew her
they took in at the time, but he was all her life. Obamacare (or as we
entheusiastic. Then he said they'd say at LiberTORian, Obamacares-Not),
make even more on year two! Small forbids Ms. B from paying for a doc-
oversight: knowing that all their tor visit with her own money! She
wealth would be taken again, who tried. Ms. B is another victim of
would work a year for NOTHING? the great lie: "If you like your
doctor, you can keep your doctor."
This means that when Bernie Sanders
wants to seize 80% of a person's We own phones but now it's illegal
hard-earned money, the overtaxed to pay a doctor. Pseudoanarchist
person has less to show for it, and onion is missing the big picture.
the government has significantly less People face unnecessary misery due
to show for it. It's difficult to to regulation by big government.
fund a growing government order on
resources more limited than a free Hey! I was asked to write this in
society's. So says Laffer. ((L)) one column and I did so without((L))
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'-----' PART ONE - THE ELECTORIAL COLLEGE '-----'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By Synonymous 1 - ... and the Founding Fathers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The way we elect a president is very | the United States, directed to the
different now than when the Consti- | President of the Senate. The
tution was written. According to | President of the Senate shall, in
out Constitution, this is the pro- | the Presence of the Senate and
cess of electing a president: | House of Representatives, open all
| the Certificates, and the Votes
| Article. II. The Executive Branch | shall then be counted. The Person
| | having the greatest Number of
| section 1 - The President | Votes shall be the President, if
| | such Number be a Majority of the
| The executive Power shall be vest- | whole Number of Electors ap-
| ed in a President of the United | pointed;... In every Case, after
| States of America. He shall hold | the Choice of the President, the
| his Office during the Term of four | Person having the greatest Number
| Years, and, together with the | of Votes of the Electors shall be
| Vice-President chosen for the same | the Vice President.
| Term, be elected, as follows:
| One of many great things about our
| Each State shall appoint, in such Constitution is that even when it is
| Manner as the Legislature thereof changed, the original text is never
| removed. This makes it resistant to
| may direct, a Number of Electors, the censorship of political correct-
| equal to the whole Number of Sena- ness. Even when changes are made to
| tors and Representatives to which the Constitution, we see the way we
| the State may be entitled in the were before the changes. The above
| Congress: but no Senator or Rep- is no longer the way things are done
| representative, or Person holding in America, but we can *SEE* how
| an Office of Trust or Profit under they were done before the change.
| the United States, shall be ap- In this case, we did not elect the
| pointed an Elector. President and vice president exactly
as today. There is a democratic
That's how it begins. It continues, vote within the states for members
but the next section has been voi- of the electoral college, who in
ded by the 12th Amendment. turn elect the president, but there
were no "tickets". Whoever received
| The Electors shall meet in their the second-greatest number of elec-
| respective States, and vote by toral votes became the vice presi-
| Ballot for two persons, of whom dent! This meant that, most likely,
| one at least shall not lie an In- the vice president was a different
| habitant of the same State with political party, or at least wildly
| themselves. And they shall make a differing in political views from
| List of all the Persons voted for, the president.
| and of the Number of Votes for
| each; which List they shall sign The problems were evident: they nev-
| and certify, and transmit sealed er get along! But since the only
| to the Seat of the Government of real job of a vice president is to
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break a tie in the senate, to me it &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
is a moot point.
People Are Discussing LiberTORian.
So the Constitution was changed in
1804 to put the president and vice &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
president on the same ballot and
make it a team.
LiberTORian was added to the links
Personally, I don't see the opposing page of 24hcpmhhmtdkccam.onion, even
view as the president of the senate without us begging for them to do so
as really so bad. Its just another or anything!
check and balance in the system, and
by placing the vice president in one http://24hcpmhhmtdkccam.onion/
of the other branches of government, page2.html
no one person, or two similar people
have too much concentrated power. The link to LiberTORian 2.0 appeared
on the MicroPaste pastebin, but it's
That's the way we do it now. Al- no big deal, as it was amidst a list
though I prefer the pre-12th Amend- of over 5000 onions, possibly all of
ment way of doing things, my respect the ones found by an onion crawling
for the Constitution means that this program:
is the change people wanted, and it
was made the right way: through http://micropaste.com/view/
Constitutional means. If I cared 0ab03de7
enough that I want things back the
old-fashioned way, I'd call for a TORificator provided a link to a
Constitutional convention. blurb on LiberTORian 1.0, seen on
Golden Nectar's Tumblr page:
This article's the first in a series
that LiberTORian hopes to complete, http://golden-nectar.tumblr.com
on the changes in the election pro-
cess. The changes in the future TakedownMan is a Deep Web diver with
articles are more insidious, with an his own Youtube series on the sub-
intent to take the power of the vote ject. LiberTORian appears in one of
away from the people. Elitists in his recent videos in the series:
both parties need fail safe systems, "The Deep Web- Crazy BDSM Enema
because the ignorant public (meaning Stories and Cool Sites!" We think,
us voters, especially libertarians,) of the two categories in the above
has a tendency to elect the "wrong" title, LiberTorian is being referred
people. So there are stop-gap meas- to as one of the cool sites! Take-
ures that were put in place in the down goes as far as to say that the
system, in case one of these "wrong" site is one of the coolest sites on
candidates slips through the cracks. the deep web, putting his credibil-
ity on the line! He also says we
LiberTORian believes that it's in tonce covered a UFO story(?) There
the public interest to know how the maybe was a site like ours that he's
system works, because knowledge is confusing with it. We leave the UFO
power. It's summarizes by an "un- discussion out of LiberTORian be-
atual law" (like Murphy's Law) cause the information's too specu-
called "The Sausage Principle": lative. But it is a cool mention,
and the video includes video capture
Those who love sausage and re- of pages from LiberTORian 12, the
spect the law should never see Christmas Spectacular. Here's the
either of them being made. video link (Beware: YouTube alert!)
Until next time, don't hurt people https://youtube.com/watch?
and don't take their stuff! ((L)) v=k_OT8qHPlVk ((L))
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CRYPTOLOGY FOR DUMMIES PART 2 ----- By Synonymous 1 -----
00101000110100101011010010110110001
Continuing the series from Liber- The previous cipher translates to,
TORian 14, this provides the basic CAN YOU READ IT (?) The same symbols
information on covert writing, but always represent the same letter each
as with part 1, IT'S STRONGLY RECO- time. In a variation, the letters
MENDED THAT YOU NEVER USE THESE TO are all in one pigpen like this:
ENCODE ANYTHING SERIOUS!
ABC | DEF | GHI In this version, a
Well, why bother learning this in ____|_____|____ dot is placed in
the first place? Here are two rea- | | every symbol, but
sons: 1) You develop the skills, JKL | MNO | PQR in a position rela-
and 2) YOU will be able to decrypt ____|_____|____ tive to the posi-
messages OTHER PEOPLE write! | | tion of the letter
STU | VWX | YZ in the grid. So,
We were discussing simple substi- the same message as
tution ciphers when we left off. above now looks like this:
You will find that various other ___ ___ ___ ___
ciphers are no more than substi- o| o | | o | |o | o | o|
tution ciphers. Take the famous ___| ___| |___| | | | |
"pigpen" cipher. Here's the clear ___ ___
(key) to this: | o | o | o ||o | | o o |
| |___| ___||___| |___ |
A | B | C \_ J _/
___|___|___ \_ _/ Alien languages in science fiction
| | \ / are often no more than English, but
D | E | F K X L with each letter substituted with a
___|___|___ _/ \_ symbol. Most notably is the Aurebesh
| | _/ \_ from the Star Wars films.
G | H | I / M \
Another cipher of this type is a grid
where the letters of the alphabet are
N | O | P \_ W _/ scrambled. Like Ancient Rome, where
___|___|___ \_ _/ cryptology is thought to be invented,
| | \ / the I and J are considered the same
Q | R | S X X Y letter:
___|___|___ _/ \_
| | _/ \_ 1 2 3 4 5 Messages are encrypted
T | U | V / Z \ 1 I E Z M P by Finding the letter
2 X Q A U D and converting it to
The letters are represented by the 3 T N W F K the two numbers corre-
shapes that surround them. If a 4 B H R O V sponding to its row
letter appears in the second pair 5 Y G L C S and column.
of shapes they are "pigpenned" in,
a dot is added to the shape. The message "This is a coded message"
__
| | o | /o |o | | | looks like this
|__ __| __| \ |__| |o |
__ __ __ __ __ 31 42 11 55 11 55 23 54 44 25
|o || | | | | | 14 25 14 12 55 55 23 52 12 15
|__||__| __| __| | o |
5 is a null.
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Even without the clear, this can be substituted with words without such
solved as any simple substitution common letters. "big" is better
cipher. There is a way to make this than "enormous" because only one of
more complex: add a second pair of the three letters in "big" is common
numbers to the grid, so it now looks (30%) while six of the eight in the
like this: word "enormous" (75%) are. omit the
"o" in "of". just the letter F is
1 2 3 4 5 Now there are two enough to convey the meaning, and
0 9 8 7 6 numbers in each col- really throws off a cryptologist who
10 I E Z M P umn and row which intercepted the message.
29 X Q A U D can be used to rep-
38 T N W F K sent the letters, Contestants on TV's "The Wheel of
47 B H R O V resulting in up to Fortune" must be more intuitive now
56 Y G L C S four ways to identi- than in the 1970s and 1980s, because
fy each letter. And the puzzle writers are more wary
It should be varied, especially in these days of the need to employ
common letters, such as T, S, and I. techniques like these to make their
The S, for instance, now can be 55, puzzles challenging. The winner is
56, 65, or 66. The order of the given a final puzzle that is so
second row or column of numbers can terse, while involving one or two
also be jumbled so number patterns of the more obscure letters, that it
are less likely. is often a matter of luck to choose
from the six constinents the obscure
How else can a simple cipher be made one they're using. They also do
harder to solve? Messing with the their best to keep the Es, As and Os
letter frequencies is one way. In to a minimum. (Minimum would be a
the English language, the most com- word they like: no E, A, or O, and
mon letters are, in order: the common constinent is M. You can
learn much from the writers.
E T A O N I R S H
Remember, skilled cryptologists can
Actually, linguists argue over the crack these ciphers no matter what
proper order, but E, T, and A as the frequencies are used and without the
top three is nearly a consensus. proper spacing of words, without the
The least common letters in English aid of computers. Therefore, it was
are J, Q, X and Z, in that order. necessary to develop more complex
cryptologists study letter frequency methods that are harder to solve
as part of their craft. They also without knowledge of the key.
study the frequencies of letter com-
binations. THE is the most common Taking a break from ciphers a moment
three-letter combination in English. we turn to the *book ciphier*, which
Other common combinations are obvi- is actually a code, but it has some
ous because they're formed by stan- commonlity to the next ciphers to be
dard grammar rules. For instance, covered: the mask frequency. The
-ED and -ING are common because they person writing the code uses a book,
are suffices from conjugated verbs. *To Kill a Mockingbird*, for in-
Measures can be taken, before en- stance. If the first word in the
ciphering a message, to reduce the secret message is "the", the writer
common letters and patterns from the looks int he book and writes the
language. page number and the ordinal number
corresponding to its appearance on
Removing articles: a, an and the, the page. 121 32 means the 32nd
from messages alone is a major step, word on page 121. The message is
as they are all common letters, and made up of these number pairs, with
THE is a dead giveaway. Messages two numbers representing each word.
can be harder to decrypt if words Or, a three-number code can be used:
made of mostly common letters were A B C, where A is the page number,
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B is the line number and C is the Next, the encoder examines each pair
word number on that line. The beau- of letters: the first of each pair
ty of the book cipher is that words is located in quadrant 1 and the
can have more than one number-pair second is found in quadrant 4.
that can represent them. "The" is a _____
very common word in a book, so there | Next, the
can be hundreds of number pairs that | encoder draws
can represent it. Of course, the | a rectangle
recipient of the message needs the | using the two
same edition of the exact book, so X-------. letters as
that it can be coherently decrypted. ----|-----+-|-------- opposite cor-
| | | ners.
Now, let's make cryptograms slightly | | |
more complex. A straightforward and '-------F The encoder
quick way to make a cryptogram uses | then finds
a *diagraph*. The diagraph is a two __|__ the letters
dimensional chart randomly plotting _____ that make up
all the letters of the alphabet four | the missing
times (J is once again forbidden!) | corners in
in a 10x10 grid divided horizontally | quadrants 2 &
and vertically down the middle. | 3, respec-
X-------L <-- tively. The
Example of a diagraph: ----|-----+-|-------- letter pair
| | | "XF" is now
A B C D E | G Z V O S It's import- | | | represented
F G H I K | Q R D M C ant to ensure --> T-------F as "LT".
L M N O P | H I X T E that every |
Q R S T U | Y B N W F letter never __|__ To decipher
V W X Y Z | L U A K P appears more the message,
----------+---------- than once in the decoder, who has a copy of the
K U A H R | M O Y L D any row or diagraph, finds the encoded letters
Y N P E W | Z A Q I T column. You in quadrants 2 and 3, and replaces
C I T L Z | F X U N G can have a them with the numbers in quadrants
M Q F B S | V P H C R diagraph that 1 and 3. The benefits of the dia-
V D O X G | B W E S K does so, but graph is that there are ten possi-
it's more ef- ble letters that can substitute for
fective if they don't. each letter: five as the first let-
ter in the pair, and another five
The letters in the diagraph are in when it's the second letter. re-
each of the four quadrants: grouping the cipher into groups of
five conceals the pattern that makes
1 | 2 When encoding a diagraph, it idiomatic to diagraphs. The end
--+-- the encoder examines the result of the message
3 | 4 letters in columns 1 and 4,
and substitutes them with XFER BITCOIN BY MONDAY MORNING
letters in columns 2 and 3, re-
spectively. This process is called is LT SB ON WB TE HO LH TL ZE LH