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Re:The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher by platinumrad on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:13AM (#26578765)
> Without notoriety, it is unlikely the puzzle would be solved.

I literally do not care one bit about this puzzle being solved. I do care, a lot, about people not getting shot when they go to the supermarket.

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Re:The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher by 1123581321 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:39AM (#26580106)
Those two things aren’t connected. Also, many people do care about solving this puzzle, both for the sake of cryptography and for the chance it will provide closure to the case, if not justice, at this point.

We needn’t worry about the stimulating effect revisiting decades-old crimes of an entirely different nature, for scientific purposes, may have.

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Re:The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher by eplanit on Thursday March 25, 2021 @10:14AM (#26580534)
The Zodiac puzzle was not involved in the shooting this week. It's ok to solve the puzzle.
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Re:The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher by pvaldes on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:51AM (#26602692)
Don't blame puzzle solvers for an old rotting and recurrent problem that the politicians could stop at any moment if they would really want it.
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