The Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit of the FBI Laboratory specializes in manual codebreaking. These are the so-called "old school" ways of covert communications. Despite being in a technologically driven society, inmates often don't have the same luxuries of digitally encrypting their communications. Very often they are found to be utilizing those "old school" methods (e.g., codes, ciphers, and ludlings). Typically, these communications are either in written form (think handwritten codes) or spoken form (using a "ludling," such as Pig Latin, Gibberish, Ubbi Dubbi, etc.). The FBI Codebreakers is the only forensic discipline in the world that handles manual codebreaking for law enforcement and corrections. Most of the daily case work consists of inmate and gang-produced codes, ciphers, and ludlings. The decryption of ludlings has produced some amazing intelligence post arrest, but pretrial (admissions of guilt, naming of unknown accomplices, locations of murder weapons, etc.). Learn how you can apply these tactics in your facility.
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