Saturday, May 10, 2014

NSA Uses Twitter To Recruit Code Breakers



NSA Targets New Recruits With Coded Tweet -- PC Mag

The National Security Agency is taking a unique approach to job recruitment. This week, the bureau posted what looked like a lengthy pocket tweet to its careers Twitter account.

To the untrained eye, it appeared that the NSA's official tweeter had a few too many drinks before hitting the Internet. But the post, which included the #MissionMonday hashtag, is actually a coded message.

Don't get too excited: The agency isn't revealing 140-character security secrets. According to a cryptogram solver, the substitution cipher (patristocrat) is a recruitment call for code breakers.

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