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Afternoon all,

Just wanted to ask if anybody has had any luck breaking the code on the new GCHQ recruitment website? It's been all of the newspapers and online resources for a few days. The link is below:

www.canyoucrackit.co.uk

Apparently if you can crack the code, you get the opportunity to apply for a job as a code breaker for GCHQ, sounds pretty cool to me.

I thought that as Book-keepers / Acocuntants we would be good with this sort of thing, but it's got me stumped!!

Good luck trying guys.

Ben



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Apparently you can search for the job application form online, without doing the code breaker test.

Now that would be initiative, and deserve a job biggrin



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Wella,

Your right, but I am still eager to find out if there is actually a code or if its just a big hoax!

Have a fun weekend.

Ben 



-- Edited by woody88 on Friday 2nd of December 2011 03:42:04 PM

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lol Bill,

the test assures fast track status for the next generation of analysts at GCHQ.

I think that the general rule with these codes is look for the combination of number / characters that occurs the most and that will be the letter E or e. If they're clever they'll have different codes for upper and lower case... In fact, if they're clever it won't actually translate to English.

When I worked in Cheltenham the cold war hadn't quite finished but they were running down their listening station side so almost everyone that I worked with at the insurance company there spoke fluent Russian. Strange times.

Anyway.

M'neer Nooshna Corffee

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At first I thought it was an HEX to ASCII translation but that doesn't work no



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Tried it, got my old IBM Yellow card out to check some of the letters but that one amounted to nothing.



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