Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo

[Ed Jewett]

Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo

• By Noah Shachtman
  
• July 7, 2010 |
  
• 9:23 am |
  
• Categories: Info War
  

The U.S. military’s new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, one of the military’s most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces. But the there’s another mystery surrounding the emerging unit. It’s embedded in the Cyber Command logo.
On the logo’s inner gold ring is a code: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a
“It is not just random numbers and does ‘decode’ to something specific,” a Cyber Command source tells Danger Room. “I believe it is specifically detailed in the official heraldry for the unit symbol.”
“While there a few different proposals during the design phase, in the end the choice was obvious and something necessary for every military unit,” the source adds. “The mission.”
With that hint in hand, go crack this code open. E-mail us your best guess, or leave it in the comments below. Our Cyber Command source will confirm the right answer. And the first person to get it gets his/her choice of a Danger Room T-shirt or a ticket to the International Spy Museum.

See Also:

• Cyber Command: We Don’t Wanna Defend the Internet (We Just Might Have To)
  
• Prospective U.S. Cyber Commander Talks Terms of Digital Warfare
  
• U.S. Cyber Command: 404 Error, Mission Not (Yet) Found
  
• Pentagon Networks Targeted by ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Probes’
  

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[Magda Hassan]

Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo: Paranoid fascist wankers rule!

[Jan Klimkowski]

Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo: Paranoid fascist wankers rule!

Translation for our American friends:

Wanker - This is a derogatory term used to describe someone who is a bit of a jerk. It actually means someone who masturbates and also has a hand signal that can be done with one hand at people that cannot see you shouting "wanker" at them. This is particularly useful when driving.

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

[Charles Drago]

Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo: Paranoid fascist wankers rule!

Translation for our American friends:

Wanker - This is a derogatory term used to describe someone who is a bit of a jerk. It actually means someone who masturbates and also has a hand signal that can be done with one hand at people that cannot see you shouting "wanker" at them. This is particularly useful when driving.

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

Please stop poking fun at my hobbies.

"Poking"???

[Jan Klimkowski]

Originally Posted by Jan Klimkowski
Quote:
Originally Posted by Magda Hassan
Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo: Paranoid fascist wankers rule!


Translation for our American friends:

Wanker - This is a derogatory term used to describe someone who is a bit of a jerk. It actually means someone who masturbates and also has a hand signal that can be done with one hand at people that cannot see you shouting "wanker" at them. This is particularly useful when driving.

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

Please stop poking fun at my hobbies.

"Poking"???

And, yes, paranoid fascist wanker is a particular subgenus which, in this psyops context, has been loosely associated with such subspecies as the mockingbird wanker, the inbred WASP wanker, and the neocon tosser.

[Peter Presland]

The solution, (cyber Command's 'Mission Statement') by one Sean-Paul Correll, a security research worker for anti-virus Vendor 'Panda Research', as reported in Computer World:

"USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."