Cracked

Time for a change of pace: I'm going to criticize the Wayne Review's "back end", i.e. their attempt at humor.

Here is a "joke" verbatim from the Wayne Review Vol. 2, Issue 4.

CIA fails to crack code after 15 years

Artist Jim Sanborn created a cryptographic sculpture nearly 15 years ago for the CIA grounds. Sadly its been 7 years since anyone has made progress on cracking the 4 encrypted messages. The sculpture named Kryptos isn’t a complete mystery. Parts of it have been solved. In 1998, CIA analyst David Stein cracked three of the four coded messages after diddling over the problem with paper and pencil for about 400 hours spread over many lunch breaks. Only his CIA colleagues initially knew of his success, since the agency didn’t publicize it. A year later, California computer scientist Jim Gillogly gained public notoriety when he cracked the same three messages using a Pentium II. Sanborn said he didn’t expect that the code would remain unsolved for this long.

Henri the Hippy Says: The answer to the code, is... two.

That's the best punchline you could come up with?! "The answer is two"? I thought it was liberals who were dour and humorless...

P.S. Does writing for the Wayne Review humor section give you the license to plagiarize news reports without citation?