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08-06-2016, 01:00 AM
Edward S**wden tweeted gibberish and people are trying to figure out what it all means
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If you're a fan of puzzles, Edward S**wden may have just ruined your Friday.*
The former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower tweeted out (https://twitter.com/S**wden/status/761641490246283264) a string of letters and numbers, which was either the result of him sitting on his phone or some cryptic code. Then, within minutes, he deleted it.*
This isn't a code you can ***** with Google (we tried), so therefore the people of the internet started falling over themselves to work out what the hell it meant. So far, there has been little success.
Crowdsourcing has been k**wn to solve huge problems like this before. Remember the dress (http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/what-color-dress-blue-black-white-gold/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)? We solved that problem quicklyMarina Joyce (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/marina-joyce-theories/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)? Yeah, armchair detectives had that worked out.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/edward-s**wden-tweet-code/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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If you're a fan of puzzles, Edward S**wden may have just ruined your Friday.*
The former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower tweeted out (https://twitter.com/S**wden/status/761641490246283264) a string of letters and numbers, which was either the result of him sitting on his phone or some cryptic code. Then, within minutes, he deleted it.*
This isn't a code you can ***** with Google (we tried), so therefore the people of the internet started falling over themselves to work out what the hell it meant. So far, there has been little success.
Crowdsourcing has been k**wn to solve huge problems like this before. Remember the dress (http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/what-color-dress-blue-black-white-gold/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)? We solved that problem quicklyMarina Joyce (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/marina-joyce-theories/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)? Yeah, armchair detectives had that worked out.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/edward-s**wden-tweet-code/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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