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Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by harrytuttle on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @04:44AM (#6366155)
Yes you too can work as a minimum wage government slave chained to a PC for cracking this...

Any person who cracks this should post it on a blog straight away just to undermine the whole process.

Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by ronaldx on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:33AM (#6366258)
Since the challenge is essentially a marketing tool, I'm not sure posting details on a blog would undermine very much...
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by jph98 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:31AM (#6366252)
My impression is that they actually pay the tech people pretty well to be chained to a desk...
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by ronaldx on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:36AM (#6366265)
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by antocv on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:49AM (#6366299)
£31 000? Meh, that is low. Finance industry gets you above 75k
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by timthorn on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:11AM (#6366351)
I think it's more that finance is high rather than GCHQ is low. £31k is about average for engineering grads.
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by Ntrails on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:52AM (#6366430)
You do, however, get a government pension. Which is worth a small fortune.
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by ig1 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:24AM (#6366384)
It's 31k after five years experience.
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by harrytuttle on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:40AM (#6366406)
And being public sector, that's "if you suck everyone's cock on the way up".
Re:GCHQ: Can you find it? by harrytuttle on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:06AM (#6366335)
prospects.ac.uk is full of shit as a rule.