Crack this code and become a British Spy.
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it's "monkey".
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Actually, they are looking for new hackers, not new spies.
If you would have provided background behind this competition, you would have known that this GCHQ challenge has been orchestrated by the Cyber Unit of the agency. Their reasoning is that they have shown an "inability to retain a suitable cadre of internet specialists" and have been the subject to a large amount of cyber threats that have probably been too close for comfort for them; or perhaps they've even experienced a breach.
People who can hack often have a high aptitude in code breaking, and vice versa. In their search for new applicants, they've decided to create this open invitation specifically so that they could recruit from a talent base that is often missed all together by formal universities and government career paths. A great number of people in this world can hack, believe it or not. It's just that many of them have nothing to do with it, or do not have a solid enough foundation to make a career out of it. Most of these people are information security workers who just happen to use their hacking skills for good, rather than bad.
If you would have provided background behind this competition, you would have known that this GCHQ challenge has been orchestrated by the Cyber Unit of the agency. Their reasoning is that they have shown an "inability to retain a suitable cadre of internet specialists" and have been the subject to a large amount of cyber threats that have probably been too close for comfort for them; or perhaps they've even experienced a breach.
People who can hack often have a high aptitude in code breaking, and vice versa. In their search for new applicants, they've decided to create this open invitation specifically so that they could recruit from a talent base that is often missed all together by formal universities and government career paths. A great number of people in this world can hack, believe it or not. It's just that many of them have nothing to do with it, or do not have a solid enough foundation to make a career out of it. Most of these people are information security workers who just happen to use their hacking skills for good, rather than bad.
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chances are the people who can crack this code have no interest in becoming spies.
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They're not looking for spies.
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Where's that little ******ed kid from Mercury Rising when you need him?
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the password is swordfish
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How is this possible? I really wanna see how people dothis
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Code breaking is similar to breaking any other puzzle. It's just the methodology that separates cryptanalysis (essentially, the art of code breaking) from other forms of puzzle solving. People who are skilled cryptanalysts use a combination of logic and intuition to crack codes. Basically, to begin, you have to find a pattern. Once that happens, you develop an algorithm that will help you solve the rest of the problem and reveal the encrypted information. Code breaking doesn't just pertain to computers, though. Cryptographers (people who do the encrypting,) and cryptanalysts (people who decrypt) have been around for a long time.
It's really interesting stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park is one of the first places that the art of code breaking became famous.
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That's tight, Im about to spend the next 7 days doing nothing but this and then gettin a job
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It's the repost Marty! It had came back from the future past!
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Or however the $@@* that joke goes...
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I just typed in "Super Aids" and said password accepted.... Guess I got a new job
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lol @ Super Aids