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    btw before anyone starts dishing out tazz lives in a tin foil hat i suggest you also look on yahoo news where i got this from





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    The secret code in U.S. Cyber Command's logo
    By John Cook
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    The newly formed U.S. Cyber Command is supposed to centralize and focus the military's ability to wage war over the Internet, but so far it's basically famous for brainteasers. The command's fancy logo contains a super-secret code in its inner gold ring: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a. Though some people noticed the code late last month, Wired's Threat Level blog picked it up Wednesday morning and announced a contest, with a free T-shirt (or a ticket to the International Spy Museum) going to the first reader to crack the code.

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    Trouble is, no one knows for sure yet precisely what the 32-character code means. Or at least no one at Cyber Command appears to know. Lt. Cmdr. Steve Curry, a spokesman, says "it's definitely the mission statement" of Cyber Command. "What part of the mission statement: That's what I'm waiting to find out on from the people who designed it."


    Indeed, the heraldry notes accompanying the logo — i.e., explanations of what the symbols mean — say it contains a "computer code that ties the command back to the early days of computer networking; USCYBERCOM's mission statement is encrypted within this code." Curry suspects that the designers used a cryptographic algorithm called an MD5 hash to transform the mission statement into the string of characters, but he doesn't know whether they took choice bits or the whole statement, which reads:


    USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.

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    We tried encrypting that entire statement using an MD5 hash generator, and we didn't get a match to the logo code. So it looks like just a portion of the statement has been encoded. Eventually someone will figure out which portion, and win a T-shirt from Wired — at which point the CIA will laugh at the whole episode, because it still has Kryptos, an encrypted sculpture commissioned on the grounds of its Langley headquarters. The code displayed on Kryptos hasn't been fully solved in 20 years and contains one of the world's most elusive cryptographic puzzles. Nice try, Cyber Command!

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  • #2
    An internet kill switch is a myth.
    Now you'd never call Erwin a "Wussy"
    Nor label his working day "cushy"
    But you might have to question
    His endless obsession
    With superpositional pussy.

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    • #3
      ^ Is that what you chose to believe?
      You just witnessed the strength of geek knowledge. N.W.A., Nerd With Attitude. Straight out of Vulcan!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Darth_Primus View Post
        ^ Is that what you chose to believe?
        I guess that's the only way it could be.
        Now you'd never call Erwin a "Wussy"
        Nor label his working day "cushy"
        But you might have to question
        His endless obsession
        With superpositional pussy.

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        • #5
          Snake Plisken used a power kill switch on the world in Escape from LA.

          + YouTube Video
          ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.

          " He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."-Leonardo da Vinci

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          • #6
            Wheres the Tazz switch? :P

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            • #7
              old news Tazz

              http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/...&postcount=752

              IonFan says

              MAGA then, MAGA now, MAGA FOREVER

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              • #8
                can someone shut off his internet?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Robinson View Post
                  can someone shut off his internet?
                  You should ask Snake Plissken.

                  " He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."-Leonardo da Vinci

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                  • #10
                    The U.S. government actually BUILT the internet. Private business didn't do it. It was supposed to be a way that goverment and military officials could keep communicating during a nuclear war. That's why Internet use in the U.S. is a lot cheaper than it is in other countries. Eveywhere else, it was built by private business.

                    So yes, the government might very well have a way to shut it down.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by IonFan View Post


                      i apologize if old but apparently i guess theres a new symbol on the seal for the people that is considering this.




                      i guess this secret code is on there
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                      • #12
                        well now that's the 1st time i've seen something like that

                        IonFan says

                        MAGA then, MAGA now, MAGA FOREVER

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by IonFan View Post
                          well now that's the 1st time i've seen something like that


                          shit was reported on yahoo news and they posted the image.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Spy Smasher View Post
                            The U.S. government actually BUILT the internet. Private business didn't do it.
                            The internet was originally made up of 4 computers, and the technology was designed for the use in the military.

                            But the internet isn't one entity, it's tens of millions of computers tied together via networks that are privately owned and operated.

                            That's why the internet kill switch idea, is pretty far fetched.
                            Now you'd never call Erwin a "Wussy"
                            Nor label his working day "cushy"
                            But you might have to question
                            His endless obsession
                            With superpositional pussy.

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                            • #15
                              Video killed the radio star and the internet has killed the record stores.
                              You just witnessed the strength of geek knowledge. N.W.A., Nerd With Attitude. Straight out of Vulcan!

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