Crack the Code in This Tweet To Work for the NSA

May 06, 2014 07:58 PM EDT | Jordan Ecarma

The National Security Agency is looking to hire expert coders, announcing the upcoming career opportunities in a cryptic tweet on Monday, USA TODAY reported. Tweeting from @NSACareers, the agency said, "tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf. #MissionMonday #NSA #news," an unusual message that media outlets tried to decode. The tweet turned out to be neither an accident nor necessarily a message of national import; instead, NSA is apparently hoping to draw coding talent for an upcoming round of hiring. With the help of the decoding website Quipquip, the cryptic tweet was revealed to say, "Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday in May as we explore careers essential to protecting your nation," as reported by the Daily Dot. The outlet reached out to the NSA to find that the agency plans to release similar coded tweets through the rest of the month. "NSA is known as the code makers and code breakers," NSA spokeswoman Marci Green Miller told the Daily Dot in an email. "As part of our recruitment efforts to attract the best and the brightest, we will post mission related coded Tweets on Mondays in the month of May."    

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