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Re:Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo ... by ncmncm on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:42AM (#32699969)
You really cannot perceive the difference between a few square inches on a newspaper page and a custom-minted coin?

They clearly hoped it would take at least weeks for a full solution, so they could have multiple press events. Or if not, they should have; incompetent either way.

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Re:Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo ... by theteapot on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:04AM (#32710293)
Have you actually tried it? If ASD thinks this would take a week to crack Australia as a nation is in trouble.

Custom minted coins is not that uncommon in Australia. There's been over 100 of them.

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