andphi's Journal: Decoding April Fools

I figured out at least one or two levels of joke in this year's Thinkgeek shirt. Some of their other offerings are in questionable taste, but the labyrinthine chain lock, the Betamax to HD-DVD recorder, and the caffeinated breakfast cereal are all fun.

The shirt purports to be encrypted at some very high level, so I decided to try decoding it with ROT13 first. The plaintext actually makes sense, so either the joke is that the NSA encryption is just rot13, or the plaintext I decoded is actually a cipher within a cipher. Not sure which. But, as usual, the encoded thinkgeek shirt insults either the wearer, the reader, or both. In this case, the wearer:

BUJUNGNSBBYVNZ decrypts to
OHWHATAFOOLIAM

Fun.