>>http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/
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>>Posted by GCHQ.
>>If you can decode it they might offer you a job :-}
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>No need to waste time solving the puzzle, you can apply directly here:
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>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/03/gchq_code_crack_compo_snafu/

Ah. http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp

I was more intererested in the puzzle than getting the job.,
Oddly reading the hex as unicode chinese characters give the words "spy" and "graveclothes" (shroud?) when run through a translator.
Of course it could be a coincidence and nothing else makes sense.....

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>Seems like one of those job interviews that shows more of the interviewer than the applicant...
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>"Gentlemen, congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training. Now please step this way, as we provide you with our final test: an eye exam..."