Skyscrapers Cipher – How to Decryption

5×5 Skyscrapers Cipher – Assault on Constitution

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Quote, as written, by a BBC employee who is clearly a member of The Base. On his BBC webpage BBC News – ‘Barack Obama defends US surveillance tactics’

From yesterday’s
5×5 Skyscrapers Cipher – “Heatwave to trigger floods”
we saw how to read off the 4 Columns. Here, we are reading off, what I call for need of a term, ‘The Base Box’.

So, let’s put together the 2 parts (the 4 Columns, ‘The Base Box’) of the Skyscrapers Cipher to produce the entire decrypted text:

‘Nuts isn’t. To a lastin’ U.S. or Satan [st. + an] at I’

5x5 Skyscrapers Cipher - Assault on Constitution

5×5 Skyscrapers Cipher – Heatwave to trigger floods – Monday 22 July 2013 – Daily Express front cover

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The Skyscrapers Cipher is the most frightening cipher that I have ever cracked.

Here, I’m spotlighting how just to decrypt the 4 columns. Start at the top of the 4th column. Read sequentially, up or down, each of the other 3 columns.

Now, think about what the Daily Express, ‘Heatwave to trigger floods’, probably already knew but couldn’t yet publish. Later that same day, 22 July 2013, it was announced that the heir to the British throne had been born.

5x5 Skyscrapers Cipher - Heatwave to trigger floods - Monday 22 July 2013 - Daily Express front cover