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GCHQ Cracks Frank Sidebottom's Codes

188 点作者 rb2e大约 6 年前

8 条评论

dlgeek大约 6 年前
&quot;I&#x27;m embarrassed to say, on the very next day Chris&#x27;s very own code grid was found in the back of his address book. It was almost like Chris Sievey was going, &#x27;There you go, now we&#x27;ve all had our fun, there&#x27;s the explanation.&#x27;&quot;<p>And they say the universe doesn&#x27;t have a sense of irony...
paulgb大约 6 年前
If Frank Sidebottom is an unfamiliar name, I recommend the short audiobook Frank by Jon Ronson as an entertaining story. Jon played keyboards in his band and is an entertaining writer.
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mellosouls大约 6 年前
An example of Frank&#x27;s original worldview.<p>Anybody who&#x27;s only seen the fictional film representation may find it surprising.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yrM6sLx_DXo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yrM6sLx_DXo</a>
bcherny大约 6 年前
Any more details on how the encoding worked? Was this just a substitution cypher with some gibberish sprinkled in?
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Hendrikto大约 6 年前
&gt; I spent a while just looking at them going, &#x27;What could he be saying, what could this mean?&#x27;<p>&gt; But it was impossible to crack them […]<p>Confirmed uncrackable. He looked at it Jim, what else was he supposed to do??
ape4大约 6 年前
I didn&#x27;t know til now that the GCHQ headquarters is a flying saucer like Apple&#x27;s
keithpeter大约 6 年前
A couple of quotes from OA with a personal &#x27;translation&#x27;<p><i>&quot;GCHQ told Sullivan that Sidebottom &quot;had a small but dedicated following&quot; among its staff.&quot;</i><p>Couple of people do Sidebottom dialogues as an in-joke to the extent that it begins to annoy co-workers.<p><i>&quot;[After random outer triangles explained] &#x27;Right, we&#x27;ve cracked it during a light-hearted training exercise.&#x27;&quot;</i><p>Took a couple of minutes as a starter in a session.<p>PS: I use a Playfair style grid to jumble up my pass phrases to try to make them less susceptible to rainbow table attack. Am I wasting my time?
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laurencei大约 6 年前
&quot;The country&#x27;s top codebreakers too seemed flummoxed until Sievey&#x27;s son Stirling recalled how his dad would get the children to fill an outer row with random symbols, while Sievey would insert real code into the inner row.&quot;<p>Is it really that hard to fool some of the worlds top code breakers, simply by including some random digits?<p>So a code where every {x} symbol is random, and suddenly you&#x27;ve got an uncrackable code? Surely it cant be that simple?
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