Decipher tweets and get a job at NSA

The American National Security Agency has come up an innovative and fun method of recruiting new personnel.

The agency sends out ciphered tweets in an attempt to attract code-breakers.

However, NSA might have underestimated its potential candidates as the first code sent turned out to be a simple substitution cipher. This could be solved in as little as six seconds by an online software or in half an hour by someone using the conventional pen and paper method.

The ambiguous tweet was ‘tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf’ and, after deciphering, it stated: ‘Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday in may as we explore careers essential to protecting our nation.’

An NSA spokesperson said that this coded tweets game was ‘part of recruitment efforts to attract the best and the brightest" and there will be more to come.’