[NBurek]

Has someone scanned the original image as well as the image provided by FIRST to see if the original image contains this "encrypted" message as well? Because if it does it would mean that FIRST didn't put it in there in the first place.

As for trying to crack the password on this thing, I don't think that FIRST would promote brute force (or any other sort) cracking techniques. It just seems to go against their nature and I don't think they'd release a clue that required you to use it.