Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years

Posted by jwilliams on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:08PM
from the dailymail.co.uk dept.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165535/The-Wider-View-Nazi-codebreaker-shortened-Second-World-War-years.html

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by endtime on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:15PM (#539435)

While I think it's safe to assume that most on HN know who Alan Turing is and what he did, I think it's fine to have an article about this in general. But this actual article is of pretty poor quality and doesn't really contain any technical information. Sure, it's nice that a replica was built, and cool to see pics, but if that's the story then please make the headline match it better.

Wikipedia's article on the Bombe is much more interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by borga on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:04PM (#539528)

And there is a lot of its history on the Code Book http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography...

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by rglovejoy on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:10PM (#539431)

The title is misleading. The codebreaker was not a nazi, or built by nazis, only the codes were.

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by nytntynre on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:40PM (#539453)

It is the Daily Mail - probably felt it had to give it's side a bit of a boost!

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by rjprins on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @05:22AM (#539847)

I always find it fun to imagine things topsy-turvy:

What if the Nazi's won, and we were now looking at some device built by famous Nazi crypto experts.

Suddenly it's Nazi propaganda! What does that say about us?

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by varjag on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @06:35AM (#539893)

Shortened the WWII by two years, exactly how?

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Re:Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by ... by keltecp11 on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:33PM (#539571)

I wish I knew more on this machine and/or how it worked... amazing.

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