Crack the Code In US Cyber Command's Logo 380
Dan writes "According to Wired: 'The US military's new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, one of the military's most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces. But the there's another mystery surrounding the emerging unit. It's embedded in the Cyber Command logo. On the logo's inner gold ring is a code: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a.'"
Re:md5? (Score:5, Insightful)
Looks like it is the same length as an MD5 sum...
The MD5 sum of the secret Cyber Command PR effort to get geeks to talk about it without delving too deep into the actual workings and mission of the Cyber Command. Hmm, I wonder if it will work?
Re:And... (Score:2, Insightful)
Fail.
Re:md5? (Score:3, Insightful)
and just how are we supposed to find anything "meaningful" in the result of a one way hash? To say that a one way hash (with an arbitrary sized input)"encodes" anything is just plain stupid.
Oh I know! It's the original draft of the Constitution of the United States! Imagine that, all in 16 bytes! What amazing compression! Really, you're not going to fit much "meaningful" beyond a telephone number in a ciphertext THAT small. It's a hash.
wasn't meant to be a code (Score:3, Insightful)
Think about it. What organization wouldn't be at least somewhat interested in trying to put their entire mission statement in their logo? Success. And appropriate for them to use a hash for it. Although their choice of hash was poor. You'd think they would have used a more modern hash that's considered more secure? But maybe they wanted to go with that because they weren't intending for it to be secure, just fit, and be appropriate.
Wait a minute... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's written in an obscure script on the inside of a golden ring?
Well, duh. Isn't it obvious?
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
Quick! We need some midgets and an active volcano!
Beware the word "cyber" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:md5? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, he's ignorant.
It's arguably stupid to not google it first to find out what it is, but that's a common failing on /. (and everywhere else in human space).
Re:md5? (Score:3, Insightful)
So if we watch the logo carefully, we'll know when someone tries to change the mission statement?
Re:md5? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:md5? (Score:5, Insightful)
against the Ko-Dan Armada.
FTFY...
Geez, getting that reference makes me feel very "Get off my lawn"-y
Re:md5? (Score:3, Insightful)
You're right in that no one has explicitly stated how they "naturally" got to the mission statement, you're just supposed to know that it's an obvious bit of text to check against this hashing algorithm, and then shout "stupid" at people like you.
Re:md5? (Score:3, Insightful)
You've never worked for a division/company/department that has a "mission statement" or "vision statement" before?
This is typical bureaucratic jargon, I read it and thought for a second - "Hey I worked at that place before!" And then I realized that they didn't also claim they were going to "synergize... [their] product offerings while remaining the provider of choice for world-class enterprise solutions."
Re:md5? (Score:1, Insightful)
Have you read some of his other posts? I'd go with trolling. No one could be that stupid.