A picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, taken at the set of “Conan the Barbarian”, shows an encrypted (?) text. Can a reader decipher it?
First of all, I would like to invite my readers in Berlin and Vienna to meet me and have dinner together. Here are the details:
Let’s now proceed to the actual topic of today’s blog post. Arnold Schwarzenegger, known as bodybuilder, actor and politician, is not a person who is mentioned very often in the crypto literature. His only claim to crypto fame is a hidden message (acrostic) he included in a letter he wrote while he was Governor of California:
The starting letters of the two main paragraphs spell out FUCK YOU. More stories of this kind are available in my book Versteckte Botschaften.
A photograph
Blog reader Alexander Ulyanenkov from Russia has sent me an interesting photograph of Schwarzenegger. For copyright reasons, I can only present an excerpt here. The complete picture can be seen on Pinterest.
As can be seen, Arnold Schwarzenegger has painted a message on his face. Here are a few lines of it:
Source: Pinterest
According to Alexander, this picture was taken during the production of the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian. As far as I see, it’s not a scene from the film, but a picture taken at the set.
Open questions
There are a few questions I ask myself about this photograph:
- What’s the purpose of this face-painting?
- Why is this face-painting not shown in the movie?
- Do the symbols on Schwarzenegger’s face encode a message? If so, can somebody decipher it?
Can a reader answer any of these questions?
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