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Mike Cox (nearly) cracks the code

Some truly great work by Mike Cox, posted to my Facebook and reproduced here for your code-breaking pleasure. Can anyone take Mike’s work further? (It’s way out of my league…)

Hiya Matt,

I’ve been looking at the files obtained from the police, three in particular are intriguing (mainly cos I’m a molecular microbiologist and DNA sequences always pique my interest).

On one of the pages at the bottom the author (I’m assuming it’s Schoenberg) notes “*idea* messages in Life”.

I translated the DNA sequence into protein sequence using the basic code and got the following:

STGRYNEEDSLEGALCLEARANCE*PRIESGLICITG?LDN*

“Needs legal clearance” being obvious plaintext. Not sure where he got the sequence from and what it means or why only part of it is understandable (the LDN at the right hand end is tantalising too - for London? Or Lebanon Daily News I suppose :) ). I’ll keep working at it.

It’s not a sequence that can be found in the publicly available DNA database at the NCBI. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/NCBI HomePage

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides an integrated approach to the use of gene and protein sequence information, the scientific literature (MEDLINE), molecular structures, and related resources, in biomedicine.

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4 Responses to “Mike Cox (nearly) cracks the code”

  1. samantha Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    searching LDN, in particular. (from the translated code)

    http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/

    it’s a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis, including Chrone’s disease and HIV/AIDS.

    Since Markus was taking drugs for something, any possibility?

  2. Lucy Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I think LDN could definetly be London but that stuff about Chrone’s disease is interesting.

  3. Lucy Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    STGRY could be STORY with a G by mistake or STRING or STRINGY or something? Maybe like a string of DNA?

  4. Lucy Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    PRIESGLICITG? could be PRIEST. Part of it if you take the beginning letters and the end letter and put them together.
    If that’s right then I wonder what GLICIT is? What does it mean?