A new puzzle cache

[+webscouter.]

I just noticed a new cache with a very old GC number.

 

The BBC reported on cache GCHQ a puzzle cache with a lifetime salary possibility if you can solve the puzzle.

 

More information is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968878 Anyone fancy a go at this one?

[+webscouter.]

and in another post in order to make this thread on topic.

 

Why isn't GCHQ the cache code for Groundspeak Headquarters? The cache is unpublished and would make a great vanity code for headquarters.

[+jellis]

I just sent it to my Facebook seeing if FizzyMagic notices it. Dang said his name again. I know he will be watching this now.

Edited December 1, 2011 by jellis

[+jellis]

and in another post in order to make this thread on topic.

 

Why isn't GCHQ the cache code for Groundspeak Headquarters? The cache is unpublished and would make a great vanity code for headquarters.

I think it funny as default to look up a cache you would get GCXXXX and there was a cache by that name. Of course archived now.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

and in another post in order to make this thread on topic.

 

Why isn't GCHQ the cache code for Groundspeak Headquarters? The cache is unpublished and would make a great vanity code for headquarters.

I think it funny as default to look up a cache you would get GCXXXX and there was a cache by that name. Of course archived now.

 

Many years ago, while working as a systems administrator, I got a frantic call from someone that told me that the web site she was working on got hacked. It seems that for many of the links she was using "xxx" as a placeholder. As it turned out, she had also recently updated her browser (to Netscape 3.0 if I recall) which included a new url resolver that added "http://www." as a prefix and ".com" as a suffix to a string if the string was not a valid url. All of a sudden many of her links started going to a porn site.

[+Mom-n-Andy]

I must be missing something. There does not seem to be a geocache GCHQ. That's the name of an intelligence agency though.

[+TheNinjaJedi]

I must be missing something. There does not seem to be a geocache GCHQ. That's the name of an intelligence agency though.

 

I was thinking the same thing.. I don't think this has ANYTHING to do with geocaching at all.

[+W4G_SOTAGoat]

I think the OP saw "GCxx" and assumed it was geocaching.

[+The Blorenges]

I think the OP saw the story, understood it, and then put it up here as a "new puzzle cache" as a bit of a joke.

 

I agree that GCHQ would be much better as the geocache at the Groundspeak offices!

 

MrsB

[+webscouter.]

Yes I did know it wasn't a cache. I posted for three reasons.

 

One, I am so immersed in geocaching that anytime I see GC I think about caching.

Two, I think that geocachers would be imminently qualified for this job.

Three, I think that GCHQ should be the Cache ID for Groundspeak headquarters, that makes it on topic.

 

Thanks for knowing me MrsB

[+StarBrand]

GCHQ would be perfect for the lilypad!

[+captnemo]

GCHQ would be perfect for the lilypad!

How about GCFROG?

[+Gan Dalf]

Two, I think that geocachers would be imminently qualified for this job.

 

At least those that do puzzle caches would be.

[+Chrysalides]

Hey, it's not just the British intelligence community that needs puzzle solving help. The CIA needs some too.

 

I'm not sure it's a good idea to announce to the world you can crack their cipher though. You might be offered a job. Alternatively, you might be conveniently disappeared. Not that I have anything to worry about from them. No sir, not me. Dumb as a bag of hammers, I am. I can't even spell GCHQ.