The GCHQ, one of three UK intelligence agencies along with MI5 and MI6, set up a website with a visual code for prospective cyberspies to crack in order to get a job interview.
But if prospective cyber Bonds know how to use the Google search engine, they can apply, according to Graham Cluley senior technology consultant with Sophos. In his blog, Cluley explained that all you really need to do is use the Google site: www.canyoucrackit.co.uk command and you can bypass the code, go right to the success page, and begin your journey to become a cyberspy.
“Oops! Of course, none of this means that the code-cracking competition isn't still worth participating in. It was perhaps inevitable – once GCHQ's involvement in the challenge was known – that some would ferret around for chinks in the website's armour”, Cluley concluded.
The website is an attempt by GCHQ to attract nontraditional candidates, such as “ethical” hackers, to work for the intelligence agency. The agency seeded a message into blogs and forums frequented by cyber geeks with a “keen interest in code breaking and ethical hacking”, the Guardian newspaper explained.