The sculpture the CIA cannot read

Four encrypted passages standing in a courtyard at Langley since 1990. Three solved. The fourth still isn't confirmed.

Ninety-seven characters. Thousands of very serious people. Decades. Nothing.

I find that enormously comforting, and I'm not entirely sure why.

> Kryptos

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// NOISE

::THERE ARE 01010 KINDS OF PEOPLE: THOSE WHO READ BINARY, THOSE WHO DON'T, AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T EXPECT BASE 3::COFFEE LEVELS: NOMINAL // MORALE: UNDOCUMENTED::IT'S NOT A BUG, IT'S AN UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE OF THE HULL::LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET, SEGFAULT ADIPISCING ELIT::TIME SINCE LAST OFF-BY-ONE ERROR: 0 DAYS. ALSO 1 DAY.::REMINDER: NOTHING YOU DO HERE LEAVES YOUR BROWSER. NOTHING.::THE CAKE IS A DANGLING POINTER::ERROR 418: THIS DRONE IS A TEAPOT::SCHRODINGER'S DEPLOY: IT WORKS AND IT DOESN'T UNTIL YOU REFRESH::RANSOM NOTE FROM THE REGEX: I ATE YOUR WEEKEND::99 LITTLE BUGS IN THE CODE // TAKE ONE DOWN, PATCH IT AROUND // 127 LITTLE BUGS IN THE CODE::HULL INTEGRITY 94% // COOLANT: RECYCLED TEA::UNIX EPOCH ROLLOVER IN 2038. PACK ACCORDINGLY.::STILL WAITING ON A REPLY FROM MISSION CONTROL. YEAR 41.::CACHE INVALIDATION AND NAMING THINGS. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE LIST.::GAMA+ PERSONALITY CORE: SALVAGED, SLIGHTLY DENTED, FULLY OPERATIONAL::TAB VS SPACES TREATY OF 2019 REMAINS UNSIGNED::PSA: THE S IN IOT STANDS FOR SECURITY::ALL TOOLS RUN CLIENT-SIDE. THERE IS NO BACKEND TO BETRAY YOU.::SIGNAL DRIFT DETECTED ON CHANNEL 7 // PROBABLY A MICROWAVE::TO UNDERSTAND RECURSION, SEE: TO UNDERSTAND RECURSION::ENTROPY POOL: WARM // DICE: FAIR-ISH