Auteur/autrice : Lucien Noir
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The Voynich Manuscript: Why Six Centuries of Cryptographers Have Failed
In a humidity-controlled vault in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, call number MS 408, lies a 240-page codex that has defeated every professional cryptographer who has attempted to read it since it surfaced in European collections in the early seventeenth century. Carbon-dated by the University of Arizona in 2009 to between…
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Six Cold War Programs the Public Did Not Know Existed Until Recently
The first time I read the actual declassified MKULTRA budget memos, in the National Security Archive’s George Washington University reading room, I was struck not by the dramatic content but by the bureaucratic boredom of the documents. Most of the file is procurement requests and conference minutes. The genuinely disturbing material was always going to…