Actually that&#x27;s the one thing that makes me think that, hoax or not, there&#x27;s something encrypted there. That string definitely has structure, indicating it was engineered, but it isn&#x27;t perfectly sequential or linear, indicating that there may be undecoded information in it, perhaps another layer deeper. And why would the author go through so much trouble just to lead to nonsense cypher? Why not just skip that step?