US Navy Attempting To Recruit Cryptologists Through Facebook Game -- The Telegraph
US Navy creates online code-breaking game Project Architeuthis to identify potential recruits
The US Navy has created an online code-breaking game in an attempt to recruit the next generation of cryptologists.
The role-playing game is called Project Architeuthis and will be released on Facebook over the coming days.
The game follows the storyline of a US naval cryptologist sneaking aboard an enemy submarine in order to rescue the chief architect of the US weapons programme.
Players will decode complex clues sent by the digital cryptologist to discover the location of the submarine and rescue the high profile prisoner.
Kathleen Donald, of Lowe Campbell Ewald, the Navy's advertising agency, said: "The Internet is home to communities of people who enjoy complicated, story-based puzzle solving as a recreational pastime. Among them exists the kind of minds navy cryptology is looking to attract."
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