On: FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

[proexploit]

I agree. I'm certainly not their ideal codebreaker but would have given it a go for fun trying to come up with some off-the-wall stuff based on what I do but the lack of disclosure is a huge turn off.

[bertil → proexploit]

Like most similar “for fun” code-breaking competition, this one presumably will trigger forums where all the classic strategies tried by the FBI will be tested once and signalled as failed.

[pero → proexploit]

How about them not feeling charitable enough to offer any reward for something they've probably wasted many thousand man-hours on?

[jclaassen → pero]

Yeah, but think about how many more thousands of man-hours would be wasted if there was a reward.