23 Mar
2013
23 Mar
'13
4:43 p.m.
But media life won't help without preserved info
about content. Look
how long it took to decipher hieroglyphics (they got lucky with a
multi-language tablet ("Rosetta stone")
Yeah. Linear B. The Voynich manuscript. The Beale ciphers. Etc.
Note that the only one of those three that's been cracked is also the
only one that we're reasonably certain was not created with content
conealment as a goal. (Of course, with a sample set this small, that
could well mean nothing.)
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