After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
An anonymous reader writes "A dead pigeon discovered a few weeks ago in a UK chimney may be able to provide new answers to the secrets of World War II. Unfortunately, British cryptographers at the country's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have been unable to crack the code encrypting a message the bird was tasked with sending and say they are confident it cannot be decoded 'without access to the original cryptographic material.'"
Cracked! (Score:4, Funny)
I just installed windows XP using the first row.
Re:No surprise there (Score:4, Funny)
Which was probably destroyed a long time ago.
Which is, some time after destroying the one-time pet?
Easy! (Score:5, Funny)
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Re:lol (Score:5, Funny)
Really, Mr. Ballmer, you need to take some anger management classes.
Re:No surprise there (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No surprise there (Score:5, Funny)
Messages small enough to be carried by pigeon were most likely necessarily small
So you're saying that this message was quite literally a "tweet".
Re:Easy! (Score:5, Funny)
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*dies*
Re:It's not ROT13 (Score:5, Funny)
What did you run twice? The XOR one time pad or the ROT-13?
Re:No surprise there (Score:5, Funny)
That last batch activated my copy of Windows XP.