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originally posted by: dashen
best. LARP. EVAR!
originally posted by: FlyingFox
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
There's non diabolical reasons for not turning over the file, is my point.
Could also be classified material.
CNN was unable to find concrete proof, and the words “potentially” and “possibility” do heavy lifting for the media organization. “New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received in-person deliveries, potentially of hacked materials related to the 2016 US election, during a series of suspicious meetings at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,” the CNN report reads.
It adds, “The documents build on the possibility, raised by special counsel Robert Mueller in his report on Russian meddling, that couriers brought hacked files to Assange at the embassy.”
Yet, there is little to no evidence in the report to substantiate the conspiracy theory that CNN reporters want the public to believe.
The difference between a cipher and a code is: a cipher changes a message on a letter-by-letter basis, while a code converts whole plaintext words or phrases into other words or numbers.
Some aspects of cryptology during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I are described as far as can be known from publications readily available.
The well-known cipher of Mary, Queen of Scots at the time of the Babington Plot substitutes non-alphabetical symbols for letters of the alphabet and some frequently used words.