Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

Re:Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing by bitsteak on Monday December 23, 2013 @08:54PM (#6957804)

Scumbag Hacker News: Admires spies only after they're dead.

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Re:Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing by lostlogin on Monday December 23, 2013 @09:25PM (#6957903)

You really compare the NSA to activities at Bletchley Park, fighting Nazis?

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Re:Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing by infinity0 on Monday December 23, 2013 @09:33PM (#6957924)

Unfortunately, that is just what the British intelligence community are doing over here. It's a fucking disgrace, but I wonder if the timing of this pardon is because of that. They had the chance to do this a year ago, but didn't.

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Re:Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @07:22AM (#6959150)

NSA are fighting terrorism, which probably includes some Nazis somewhere in the mix. That aside it does seem the current groundswell of public opinion is firmly against all spying?

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Re:Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing by thrillgore on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @09:08AM (#6959370)

SO MUCH EDGE

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