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Secret Agents Hold Code-Breaking Contest
Spudley writes "I just heard on the BBC that the British Government's not-so-secret code breaking organisation, GCHQ, has launched a little Christmas crypto challenge for all you budding secret agents. Should be fun to try it out... even if you're not brave enough to actually send in an entry."
... is obviously 42.
Drink your ovaltine?
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that page just looks like a few columns of perl code to me.
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You win the contest, they recruit you, then you spend the rest of your life drinking vodka martinis, getting shot at, and having gorgeous women fall at your feet. (Time to start code breaking!)
They'll know
1) You're too smart for the good of the country and
2) You're disloyal enough to cozy up to a foreign spy agency.
Can you say "do-not-fly list"? Thought so.
..is that all the people listed have really fucked up names.
All your codebreak are belong to uk.
I pity the foo that isn't metasyntactic
To the BatBeowulf-Cluster!
GCHQ has launched a little Christmas crypto challenge for all you budding secret agents. To submit your entry to the challenge, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and tell her your solution!
...on black helicopters to a secret island somewhere off the coast of England where you will enjoy the amenities of the village.
What is the connection between the men in the first list and the women in the second list?
They all have very strange sounding names.
I was at school with KEZHQ WSNIEC.
J.
I would have assumed the US has an equivalent of the GCHQ organization. I enquired about it and was told we have No Such Agengcy.
SLASHDOT: news for people who can't concentrate on work or have no life at all and got tired of yelling back at the TV.
From the challenge page:
Screw that. If a bunch of secret agents are running a contest, I expect to win at least a friggin' mini-missile launching pen or some C4 toothpaste w/ detonator toothbrush.
Wait -- maybe the books are hollowed out and contain flasks that convert into single-shot 9mm pistols!
Too bad I can't even balance my checkbook, let alone compete in this contest. If you win, let us know if the books including an expandable titanium katana sword bookmark.
IronChefMorimoto
NSA? But there is No Such Agency.
Sure I have a license to drug this squirrel.
They are all people who have never been in my kitchen.
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
To both of you: only I and the makers of the Matrix are allowed to misspell 'cipher'... As it was a name of a rather blah character in the movie and has been the domain for my email address for quite some time, I think we have the monopoly on this one, pal(s). Please immediately cease your infringement on our intellectual properties so as to prevent this from becoming a _legal_ matter.
Haha! I got it and I'm not telling any of you!!!
I want to win the date with a sexy Russian agent.
I wouldn't. More than likely Bond has already had a date with her, and I don't want to be diagnosed with diseases Bond1 -Bond18 . Better to have a cool gadget in my book -- if You Only Live Twice I'm not going to waste one of my lives suffering with venerial diseases.
Y|
Aren't these just ordinary Polish names?
I'm guessing one of the men is David Beckham and one of the women is Victoria Adams (Posh Spice)
Ahhh, Jesus Christ's mum and dad.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
And let them know how much I know??? I don't think so.
When facing a problem I usually avoid solving it by either reading slashdot or I start touching my penis.
It's a DMCA gag order...
Jw