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Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption
(www.wired.co.uk)
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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I did not expect to see a WW2 joke in this thread.
Yeah, it's a clever one too. And dark. Excellent joke.
Wouldn't it make more sense if Britain had a history of being rude to those who invented encryption rather than those who broke encryption? Like, within the logic of the joke, Turing and Britain would be on the same side.
Seems like someone just wanted to flex their common knowledge by jamming a joke into things.
Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code for the allies.
No.... Britain was "rude" to Turing because they convicted him of gross indecency for being homosexual and chemically castrated him.
Right, but they're not being rude to people who break encryption today. They themselves want to break it. So the "history" that OP refers to isn't relevant to the article. If they had a history of being rude to whoever invented encryption then it'd make more sense.