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Break the code to get a job at GCHQ #19427 12/01/11 05:53 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 UK Bensheim OP
OP Bensheim Joined: Aug 2009 UK	UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code-cracking competition to help attract new talent. The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website. link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968878 which contains a link to the "challenge". There's a count-down currently standing at 10 days. I bet Tacit would get it in 10 minutes.

Re: Break the code to get a job at GCHQ Bensheim #19440 12/02/11 03:49 AM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1 Portland, Oregon, USA tacit
tacit Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1 Portland, Oregon, USA	Oh, no you don't. I so do not have time to get sucked into this. The plaintext is sixteen characters long, and each character is made up of ten hexadecimal digits in the cyphertext. I figured that much out and I'm not going to keep chasing it down the rabbit hole; I have too many other things on my plate right now. Must...not...go...back...to...site.... Photo gallery, all about me, and more: www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Re: Break the code to get a job at GCHQ tacit #19470 12/03/11 08:16 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1 Portland, Oregon, USA tacit
tacit Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1 Portland, Oregon, USA	http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp Photo gallery, all about me, and more: www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

Re: Break the code to get a job at GCHQ tacit #19472 12/03/11 08:24 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505
artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	Originally Posted By: tacit http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp Hot damn!!! That's step one towards getting your Blue Card...not a bad one to have in your wallet these days. (It didn't seem to take you all that long to crack that code.) The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

Re: Break the code to get a job at GCHQ artie505 #19473 12/03/11 08:43 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1 alternaut Moderator
alternaut Moderator Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 1	Originally Posted By: artie505 That's step one towards getting your Blue Card...not a bad one to have in your wallet these days. Too bad the UK doesn't participate in the Blue Card ... alternaut ◉ moderator

Re: Break the code to get a job at GCHQ alternaut #19476 12/03/11 08:54 PM
Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15 artie505
artie505 Joined: Aug 2009 Likes: 15	Originally Posted By: alternaut Originally Posted By: artie505 That's step one towards getting your Blue Card...not a bad one to have in your wallet these days. Too bad the UK doesn't participate in the Blue Card ... Oops... I should have read the entire first sentence. The point has nonetheless been made. The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button. In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire

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