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Debacle? :) It is a puzzle made to entertain and popularise the institution. People solving it is the goal.

Your comment reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/932/



That comic is spot on. Though I would say, as a developer, I would think "Someone at the CIA accidentally took down their own website briefly today"


It's getting headlines, it's exactly what they wanted. Kudos to the Australians on this one!


It is getting headlines exactly today, and never again. The goal was not to get it solved; they already knew the solution. The goal was to get a lot of people working on it. Now we know a motivated 14-y.o. can solve it in a few minutes, so it does not merit attention. "Plonk", as we used to say before endless September.




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