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FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the test-your-skillz dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior.

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  1. First Post by Hadlock · · Score: 5, Funny

    Love the article:
     
     

    coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, just funny to see the FBI encouraging...NO CARRIER

    Hillarious.

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    1. Re:First Post by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe their service was just disconnected because they didn't pay their phone bill.

    2. Re:First Post by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hillarious.

      RING
      RING
      CONNECT 1200
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      NO CARRIER

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    3. Re:First Post by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      We're the phone company. We don't have to care.

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    4. Re:First Post by anomnomnomymous · · Score: 3, Funny

      To be honest, I find it quite mountainarious.

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    5. Re:First Post by ILuvRamen · · Score: 2, Funny

      it's actually a clue. You have to decrypt the rest of the summary using the first letters of every prime numbered word.

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  2. Oh, the fun and prizes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The winner receives an all expense 1 way trip to the tropical island of Cuba!

    1. Re:Oh, the fun and prizes! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      "You'll love our fun-filled resort on beautiful Guantanamo Bay!"

      Meh. The resort is okay, but I hear the service is torture!

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    2. Re:Oh, the fun and prizes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      "You'll love our fun-filled resort on beautiful Guantanamo Bay!"

      Meh. The resort is okay, but I hear the service is torture!

      I heard the place is full of violent, religious fanatics who hate America.

      I'd rather vacation somewhere like Europe where they're not violent, religious fanatics.

    3. Re:Oh, the fun and prizes! by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is how I feel about that.

  3. This will really piss of the Chinese by Alain+Williams · · Score: 5, Funny

    or whichever foreign government owns the code that the FBI has just recruited the bright kids on the Internet to crack :-)

  4. FBI's "Add yourself to suspect database contest by Jason+Quinn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear citizens: Please inform us if you have the talents necessary to be suspects in criminal cyber-cracking cases. That is all. Love, The FBI

  5. This is like the Last Starfighter by synthesizerpatel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except for video games and aliens, it'll be a bunch of crypto guys battling it out with Matlab.

  6. Everyone is a Winner by retech · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's interesting to note that all of the participants in the challenge last year got an all expenses paid vacation to an undisclosed location. I guess it was a really cool vacation since none of them returned home.

  7. Re:Fill in the blank by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, actually, I think it's supposed to be

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  8. I cracked it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Be sure to drink your ovaltine"

    What the hell does that mean?

  9. I win by binaryseraph · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have decrypted. Answer is: U R under Arrest.

    damn!

  10. Re:link to challenge by Raynor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was the the only person who started this by guessing YYY.AHB.MSK was www.fbi.gov? Seems like including a fully formatted URL is a bad idea...

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  11. Re:A similar challenge for linux web servers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now that you've learned Linux, please learn about paragraphs. Thank you.