John Appleton started his day with a promising lead in the cybercriminal case he had been working on for several months. An encoded message addressed to one of the known associates that are connected to a cyber hacking group known as “The Collective” arrived in his office.

The message originated in Minsk, which was not surprising since the group was active in Eastern Europe. He launched his secure email program, checked out the evidence, then ran the program to detect the decoding method. After eight seconds, the program listed the encoding type as "ROT-13." Luckily for John, this was one of the easiest algorithms to decode. It was time to deal with the big DD.

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