Friday, 2. December 2011
Topic: WEB - on December 2, 2011 at 4:45:00 PM CET
Simple Google search unlocks GCHQ code-cracking competition
GCHQ's "Can You Crack It?" website, designed to help recruit talented codebreakers for the British government department, is getting lots of attention from the media and bloggers - but some of that may be unwanted.
A number of bloggers and Twitter users have pointed out that GCHQ appears to have done rather a poor job at locking down the website, making it child's play for anyone to visit the webpage you're only supposed to see if you've successfully cracked the code.
sophos.com GCHQ challenges codebreakers via social networks GCHQ: solve the online code, become a real-life spy
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