Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But [Ruth Selman] recently posted a challenge asking if anyone could decrypt an ...

A coded letter from the Zodiac Killer was finally deciphered after over 50 years. A code breaking team tested thousands of ways to crack the code on one of the killer's messages from the late 1960s.

Seattle police were called to Harborview hospital on July 3rd to investigate a bizarre coded message left in the patient intake area earlier that day. According to a police report, a “nicely dressed” ...