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Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo

Posted by samzenpus on from the hardy-boys-wanted dept.

Dan writes "According to Wired: 'The US military's new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, one of the military's most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces. But the there's another mystery surrounding the emerging unit. It's embedded in the Cyber Command logo. On the logo's inner gold ring is a code: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a.'"

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  1. I got it! by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't ... forget to... drink... your ovaltine?!?! a lousy commercial!?

    1. Re:I got it! by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 5, Funny

      funny, I decoded it and it came out "Ph4rma increase your p33nas size today for less $$$$"

    2. Re:I got it! by spong · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's really reads "All your base are belong to U.S.".

  2. What you say? by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's "All Your Base Are Belong To Us!"

    Wait, too soon?

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    Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
  3. I reckon by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Help, I'm being held prisoner in a logo factory"

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  4. Nothing to see here, move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's no secret. Somebody called their office and asked what it was. It's the mission statement.

    I'm sure the conspiracy nuts will just say that's a convenient hash collision and that the real message is the date and time the Loch Ness Bigfoot Anti-Christ from Betelgeuse heads up the New World Order.

  5. Re:MD5 by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, it turns out that every paragraph USCYBERCOM publishes will have the same MD5 hash; they are showing off their ability to find collisions.

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    Palm trees and 8
  6. Re:md5? by DIplomatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep digging, I'm pretty sure this will end up as promotion for a new Halo game. :P

  7. Re:md5? by sepelester · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what's the maximum length message that an MD5 number can hold?

    Infinite - 1

  8. Obviously.... by lattyware · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the WEP key for their WiFi. Handy for all staff who forget easily.

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    -- Lattyware (www.lattyware.co.uk)
  9. Re:md5? by severn2j · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't pretty much every government department make a hash of their mission statement?

  10. Another level of coding? by SloWave · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's more interesting is if you take the first letters of each word in their mission statement and parse them correctly, you get 'UPC is a cat' followed by a list of acronyms for all sorts of shadowy secret organizations and technologies...

    upc is a cat dto ados dod in a pta wd cfs mco io tea ia de UA foa i cad tst oa

  11. Re:Silly government! by mackil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find your lack of Salt disturbing...