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November 23, 2012 03:11 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/v1Bs8mogPdk/breaking-a-18th-c-cipher-revea.html
Breaking a 18th C cipher reveals hidden history of Freemasonry and freethought
Noah Shachtman's long Wired feature "They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside," tells the intriguing story of the cracking of the "Copiale" cipher, a strange text left behind by a mid-18th-century secret society called the Oculists. The Oculists had formerly been remembered as being concerned with performing and perfecting eye surgeries, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/v1Bs8mogPdk/breaking-a-18th-c-cipher-revea.html
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