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Teh One Who Knocks
05-07-2014, 11:03 AM
Harry Readhead - Metro News


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The NSA, the mysterious and highly-secretive US intelligence agency, has begun its campaign to find future recruits – by going on Twitter.

TheNational Security Agency tweeted a cryptic message on Monday in an effort to find potential code-breaking recruits.

The tweet, which is made up of an apparently random string of letters and spaces, was initially thought to be written by a bored employee or hacker, until the NSA confirmed that it was part of their new campaign to find future employees.

As it turns out, the code set by America’s premier intelligence organisation was a fairly simple letter substitution.

The code, broken by the Daily Dot, was revealed to mean: ‘Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday in May as we explore career essentials to protect our nation.’

‘NSA is known as the code makers and code breakers,’ said Marci Green Miller, a NSA spokesperson.

‘As part of our recruitment efforts to attract the best and the brightest, we will post mission related coded tweets on Mondays in the month of May.’

The NSA have turned to unusual methods of recruiting before, including attending hacker conferences to find potential employees.

Muddy
05-07-2014, 04:26 PM
The Stasi..

redred
05-07-2014, 04:54 PM
http://i.imgur.com/HaqeXur.png

thats how FBD sends letters , text's and emails you never know who could be bothered to read them :tup:

Hal-9000
05-07-2014, 05:04 PM
NSA uses a simple letter replacement code?

:rofl:


ok....Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday in May as we explore careers essential to protecting our nation

DemonGeminiX
05-07-2014, 05:24 PM
NSA uses a simple letter replacement code?

:rofl:

To identify people who might find more advanced cryptgraphical techniques interesting? Who might be able to break more advanced cyphers or create more advanced cyphers? Sure. Why not?

Hal-9000
05-07-2014, 05:34 PM
:pickme:

Muddy
05-07-2014, 05:42 PM
:pickme:

Get out of here, vic20..

Noilly Pratt
05-07-2014, 05:53 PM
tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf

That's the sound my car made when it threw a rod about 5 years ago.

I should answer the NSA with ubbi dubbi...

DemonGeminiX
05-07-2014, 05:57 PM
That's the sound my car made when it threw a rod about 5 years ago.

I should answer the NSA with ubbi dubbi...

:lol:

Send them your repair bill.

Hal-9000
05-07-2014, 06:05 PM
Get out of here, vic20..

:hal: :sad2: