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Man Arrested For Enigma Theft
OwenF writes: "Well, the coppers have picked up some 50-year-old for stealing the enigma decoder. He's already out on bail, and they're still looking for a woman seen driving a red car at the museum. Very 'international superthief' type caper, if you ask me. Where's 007 when you need him?" I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
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Just so you know, your sig is uglifying slashdot. I went ahead and followed your link to see how relavant your sig was and frankly, I was disappointed. My first thought was that you might accuse me of trolling myself, but I am really only trying to clean up slashdot, particularly the sigs.
My biggest complaint is that your sig is fairly unrelated to your UCSSM idea, which is at best lame. (On this subject, I would suggest being able to filter by modifiers - for example, filter out ``Off-topic'' and ''Troll'' posts, but this is another discussion.) My biggest complaint is the length of the link. It is not esthetically pleasing as it looks like an accidentally unfinished link. As you know these are rather tacky and distract from the message you are trying to convey. They even make you look like a newbie HTML coder.
My suggestion would be to just straighten out your sig. Consider the following:
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See? Less intrusive, more professional looking. That may be too long (I haven't counted), but you write well (I read that post), so I am sure you could get your point across in fewer words. Making a change along these lines will make people take your sig a bit more seriously. Right now, it's distracting and confusing at best.
That said, it's time you got yourself a new sig. Thank you.
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There's genigma. I haven't tried it myself.
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Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
My other suggestion would be that they find something actually worth worrying about.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
To save bandwidth, refer to my previous post.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
We feel the same way about you.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Isn't it time you got a user name to post this drivel under? My humble suggestion: sig nazi
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Do you suppose this could be related to the 3 disappearing government/military laptops?
Fraternity initiation? Scavenger hunt?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
As a result of which I'm pretty much trapped into having to leave mine unchanged.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I believe that AT&T System V 3.x used a 256-rotor enigma algorithm.
1.One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable.
2.A perplexing speech or text; a riddle.
[Latin aenigma, from Greek ainigma, from ainissesthai, ainig- to speak in riddles, from ainos, fable.]
Fable? Does Aesop know about this?
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Just a question, but if a statute of limitations has run out and you can no longer be prosecuted, does that necessarily mean that the government can't recover stolen property?
Can the museum use legal recourse to get the machine back, even if they can't prosecute the thieves?
I'm guessing that even if a statute of limitations did run out (does England even have a statute of limitations?) there would be a strong social pressure for the item to be returned, similar to the situation we see today with Nazi loot. Of course, the British museum is full of loot that they haven't returned...
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Carmen Sandiego==Carmen Electra?
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I wonder if they will charge him with simple theft or treason... Fourty years ago, this would have been high treason and he probably would have been shot on sight.
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E.Nigma aka The Riddler was found alive and well today after an as yet unknown man and Carmen Sandiago kiddnapped Gotham's most famous quizmaster of crime! Carges will be pressed against the man police are still searching for Carmen. "I wish they kept the bastard!!!" said Police Cominisher Gordon earlier today. Police still have not determined the reasons behind the kiddnapping.
Not a correction becouse as far as I know everything you said is correct :)
"Where in the world" originally was writen for the Apple II due to it's popularity at the time for eductaion. The target market however was homes as most united states schools could not accually afford to buy software (some were but the majority of schools were crying about a lack of funds.. much like today)
It later made it to PC clones (running [Pc/MS]Dos).
It has also found it's way to the Mac and Windows. It is currently still being sold as a MsWindows title.
It also was incarnated as an educational game show on PBS however the statis of this game show is unknown to me.
The game entered the market AFTER Apple replaced the Commodore PET as the computer of choice by united states schools. The switch from the PET may have been unavoidable as Commodore seemed oblivous to the schools needs.
The Apple][ computers simply outnumbered the PETs in united states schools. There were never more than a few PET computers and only when it was belived vital. On the other hand there was a flood of Apple][ computers. One for every classroom.
The "Where in the world" title did make it to the Commodore 64 and other brands of computers however the title focused only on computers populare in the United States.
During the main run of the software title the UK had it's own computers that were populare. Commodore was sereous about the UK market at that time but I doupt few if any other US computer makers were intrested in compeating in the UK.
Finnal note.. The UK has long had a Risc based home computer, the Acorn I belive it is named. It originally had a 6502 but the system was upgraded to a Risc. This was a cost cutting move only the Risc was selected for it's low R&D costs not for it's power and based on the speed of the chip selected I would suspect they picked a Risc that did not throw any money into speed.
I don't actually exist.
I'm a Yank and found the whole idea a bit out of sorts. Hollywood has it's head so firmly up its butt that it wouldn't know to jump if you pushed a sub in it too. They'll probably put a tag on the movie stating "based on a true story". :-/
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So I guess that the real question would be "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" --- come on sing it now
Contrary to what the Wired article says, the machine was stolen from Bletchley Park (that's near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire), not London.
What do I do, when it seems I relate to Judas more than You?
Still not dead.
So that's who their model was...
She was working for Red Hat!
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
it was a red Peugeot. I don't think Carmen Sandiego would be seen in a Peugeot, even if it was red.
For that matter, why do criminals ever do the things they do?
But yes, I agree with your point. There is no "logic" in the theft of this artifact because it's something that will be easily spotted wherever it is taken, because I'm going to assume that since it was stolen, the person who stole it knows that it's something very worthwhile to have and will therefore not just take it anywhere and leave it on a street corner when they find out it doesn't "do" much. Therefore, as you/we've speculated, it'll be spotted and - tada! - found. (Well, I certainly hope so.)
Or, to continue wildly speculating about the topic, the person could've stolen it just to:
see the reaction
see how long it would take it to be found
(in combination with above) test the skills of the Bletchley Park (sorry if it's misspelled) folks as they try to "decrypt" the location of the machine
because they knew they could (well, they did, didn't they? - and yes, I know this one's already been mentioned)
incite people like me to make speculations like these
The thief may, however, have a way to sell the piece if they know someone who's willing to "walk on the wild side" and buy the thing because they've got the money and figure that, as rich as they may/may not be, no one will ever come 'round and find them.
Then again, I figure I'm just rambling now...
Insert mind here.
My son has CDs for Carmen San Diego for DOS, Windows, and the Mac.
... I'm not quite sure of the relevance of your question as to who Carmen San Diego might be, except to point out that you're a geezer.
So
Or you've been using Linux since the Dawn of Time.
Will in Seattle
Because, if they had, it would be returned in broken pieces in garbage bags ...
[apologies to my friend Steve Jackson]
[no, not the British one, the Texan]
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I think, since it's not new, it's on half.com, not e-bay.
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Look under "Used Crytography Machines"
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Because he heard about the new British law requiring people to hand over their private keys for all software cryptography encoding, and figured hardware was exempt from that law.
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Yes, I'm serious
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I've also seen "Reunite Gondwanaland!"
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. . . was my first exposure to computers on an Apple ][e. Anyone else? (kind of shows my age (22))
its not the monetary value,
its being able to say to your self "i have an engima machine"..
thats it
hmm, wonder if he would accept old socks for it?
or a new car..
"Little kids are assholes. But they're their own assholes"
Good one... but the Enigma code was broken several years before that and the war with Germany was in it's last stages by May of '45 (if not finished by that point).
What value does this have? You couldn't sell it to a musuem. They would know what it is and where it came from (being that there are only two of them in known existence). You couldn't really display it around your place as decoration unless you're a real idiot. You might be able to sell it to a private collector but then the collector could never really be able to display it. Using it for crypto would be worthless since it was cracked almost sixty years ago.
So what use is this to steal? Just to say you did it? I could understand if the thief had turned out to be a teenager or something but the guy was fifty! This is on the emotional level with stealing hood ornaments and such. A way to say "Look what I have!" but never really having any practical use for it.
I had this great idea for a sequel that would explore the literature of Milton and Dante:
Where in Hell is Carmen Sandiego?
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They should just go pick up Catherine Zeta Jones now. Even if it wasn't really her, they should arrest her for bad acting.
I seem to recall that one of the 1980s Unix versions used a variant of Enigma to encrypt the password file. I want to say it was BSD, but it may have Bell Labs; any old Unix hands out there to confirm this?
This is way off topic (moderators, please look the other way), but this guy is KILLING ME. I havn't seen an AC go around and be so seriously funny in a while. I'm sure that it will get old, as do most of the AC trolls (even though they aren't trolls), but for the time being I am enjoying this guy, keep up the good work.- -
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No it wasn't - the Enigma code was changed once a month, and a group of anit-Hitler German Generals - including Rommel (after he lost North Africa, he becamed disillusioned with the Nazi party, as many other generals already had) - were sending the codes up to MI6 whenever they were changed.
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Hmmm... if they took it outside the US they could be breaking crypto export regulations...
A friend of mine has a T-shift with that on it in big, bold letters (Not the "help", just "STOP PLATE TECTONICS!"
He got it as a present and has no idea where it was purchased. Anyone know?
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Alright, I admit it. I wsa the one driving the red car. You see, I have this compulsive disorder where I have to dress in drag and help middle aged men steal historical artifacts.
The only problem is that I can never find a dress to bring out the color of my eyes.
I'm not a slashdotter, I just play one on Slashdot.
The article mentions that there are only two Enigma encoders left in the world? What is that? I'm certain they were widely used by germans in WWII. Does anyone know why there are so few? My own speculation was that they were destroyed -- that even 50 years ago governments had problems with the possiblity of strong encryption falling into whichever they deemed to be in the wrong hands.
I wonder if the other enigma machine was in a museum in Germany. If so, then the only use for the machines would be for Germany to communicate with England, which is the opposite of what they were invented for! =)
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
I guess some people can tell 'em and some people can't.
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y BATMAN!
Holy puzzles-wrapped-in-an-enigma-surrounded-by-myster
Stealing the machine is the equivalent of being told the encryption algorithm. Like any secure system, the security does not rest in keeping the algorithm secret, but in keeping the keys secret. Look at modern encryption methods, the algorithms are widely published, but they are still very hard to break. Enigma is the same. The team that broke it were geniuses.
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Ahh yes....but that information was secret.
How do you expect Mark Smith to have known about
it before he went off in his time machine and got
a machine?
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
or should I say:
tha's upid.mpoblegnyflrw
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We gotta catch Carmen. I saw the Chief for the tv show last night as the Judge on "Law and Order". But I don't think I trust her since she was the DJ in "The Warriors" that kept informing all the bad gangs where the poor white "good gang" was in the City. I ask you, would you trust the Chief?
It was a nice try, though.
I completely agree. I was pissed about this too and was gonna post about it, but moderators don't like it (negative score, etc). This story was on CNN like 2 days ago. There are other stories that show up on Slashdot a week after I see them on CNN. Well, I guess we just have to live with it... since we have no control over Slashdot.
In any case they had *lots* and *lots* of enigma machines to puzzle over. The difficulty was not figuring out how they worked, but figuring out how to crack them. It is similar to the problem of cracking RC5 these days. The algorithm is well known, but that doesn't make it any easier to crack.
I guess this goes to show that there is no security through obscurity...
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CIA to MI5: The following message was intercepted by our communication systems: first it was open text: "Aufmerksamkeit hört englische Schweine der amerikanischen Schweine! English Herr, Festgehalten Arrested Und the Abwehr Enigma Machine Nicht Found Jetzt. Vas ist das der policeman nicht!!!!" then it was this: " F R 3 0 1 1 2 2 3 1 a E 1 - 1 1 t p A q t a S K C o M P L I T e D m A C h i n e i s b A C K i T ' s A w A R a G A i n ! o b E R S T a n d A r D f u r R E r : - F A m o u S H x r " MI5 to CIA: Get Mitnick to decode this shit, we'll prepare the tea.
You can't handle the truth.
That magic catch phrase has been a standard on old Unix man pages for the entire 3 decades of it's history. Don't forget, the original crypt programme was based on Enigma.
However, your sig is much more interesting:
"Computeri non cogitant, ergo non sunt" which translates as "Computers don't think, therefore they don't exist (they are not)."
Love it.
This sounds like a classic example of the age old question: "Does life imitate art or art imitate life?" A rich man whose life was led in solitude, his only pleasure stealing a collection of art from a museum, and hot on his trail a woman who will either fall in love with him or sell him out...
... Try that in real life and you'll be looking out from the inside of some institution for at least a year)
The problem with life imitating art is that it never works out the way the movies do..(like the scene in Tommy Boy where Chris Farley straps a bunch of road flares around his chest and runs into a building to get news coverage in order to keep his late fathers company in business
I need a TiVo for my car. Pause live traffic now.
Shouldn't the machine go back to Germany?
If Germany demanded the return of the machine then of course the request would have to be considered. The factors to consider are that the machine was taken in war time, and so was a legitimate acquisition, and Bletchley has made sure that anyone who wishes to see it is able to do so. It might also be worth asking where they got the machine from. If it was salvaged from a sunken vessel then international law says that it belongs to whoever found it.
But surely the MPAA wouldn't use a technology that had been cracked ages ago?
There's one in the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, MD. Actually they have a few of them, but they have one out in the open so that you can mess with it and encrypt/decrypt stuff. It's quite amusing to play with, but you gotta wonder how long it took to send any message of serious length with it. Think of typing on a REALLY SLOW manual typewriter with a pencil in your other hand writing stuff down. If you're ever in the area check it out.
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Is it ROBOthief? has to be one of her henchmen...
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Fucknut, what an insult...
At least I'm not posting as an anonymous coward, hypocrite. And as to why it's misspelled: you tryin getting muaddib@insertfreemailname.com. I have mauddib for three reasons:
1. the e-mail was open.
2. It was misspelled on the blurb of my book.
3. I was told it was Maud'Dib, argued about it saying it was Muad'Dib. I checked my book, it was Maud'Dib, so I stayed with what I had. I'm not changing after a year.
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No doubt, Americans would be similarly amused if a film were to be released portraying Guadalcanal being liberated by British forces with nary an American in sight...
Lets do it, all the London based slashdotters, a digital camcorder, Brighton beach, sod The Blair Witch, THIS could be huge.
(I must stop posting when pissed.......)
I find it interesting that while you appear to know a portion of the history of this machine that you would make a ridiculous statement like this. The machine was obtained during war hardly theft. Countless Allied lives were saved by Bletchley Park's possession of the machine.
Well, if you're gonna be a criminal, international superthief is the only way to go. Columbian druglord might be more profitable, but they don't get to hang out at cocktail parties wearing a tux.
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They were rare in the UK since we had to steal them; there must have been thousands held by German operators... surely these were not all destroyed?
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He must have not gotten pgp to work.
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Its great that the robber was caught, but what happened to the machine? The article said that it had not been recovered. Frankly I would think that Slashdot would wait until the machine is recoved to post this news. To the Slashdot community, I think the _machine_ is more important than those who stole it and whether or not they got caught or not. Sure...it will likely be recovered soon, but I really think Slashdot should have waited. Then at least we wouldn't have 1 out of 5 news items for the next week be about the enigma machine with reposts of the exact same information in all of them.
you know, I thought that too for a moment. Then shook my head and weant "naaaahhhh!"
It could happen.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Funny thing is that once you change your .sig, any comments that you've made in the past get displayed with the new .sig and so the sig nazi's troll makes even less sense!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
God you are a pathetic waste of protoplasm!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
The stolen machine is an Abwehr (Secret Service?) variant with effectively 4 rotors in use, 3 of which are selectable (from a set of 5). It does not have a plugboard.
The machines are thus very different from each other!
Here is an implementation I found of Enigma in Java, FYI.
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Does this mean they'll stop questioning Kevin Mitnick about this latest computer crime?
No I really don't think so...
really the government will just twist it into a big pissing contest asking kevin to decrypt their 60+ year old encryption and use it as their excuse for not being able to break his, what, 4-bit encryption on his laptop system... our government at work for us...
"keyboard not found press <F1> to enter setup"
Remove *your pants* to send me email.
contact Interpol..
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It's new that they caught the guy who did it.
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That'll teach me to actually think about dates before I post... I knew this, too. I just couldn't help but flash on the pulp "speculative fiction" of the mid 1940s... should have adjusted down by three years. sigh
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"I am a Jew and I love hating Hitler. Gregory, friend, will you incorporate the Enigma machine's encryption into my software? That way, whenever everyone puts a lawsuite on my head for publishing buggy software, I can say...
Adolphus H. Hitler is to blame! Go file lawsuite with him! That bumm hasn't updated his code ever since he shot himself!
I thankyou Gregory. You have saved Microsoft alot of blame. To help you, here is Microsoft Visual Studio trial version. You have 30 days to use this software to finish the project and I suggest you get crackin. After you install MS Visual Studio, you have until 30 days to finish this project, or your computer will self destruct due to illegal operations'. Good luck, Gregory...
(whispsers to himself...'stupid irish/german boy')."
without prejudice
Oddly enough, some Brits find this a bit cheeky. No doubt, Americans would be similarly amused if a film were to be released portraying Guadalcanal being liberated by British forces with nary an American in sight... I know *I'd* be amused. But I still think Steve Mcqueen should star...
AFAIK the Enigma that was recently stolen was originally presented to Bletchley Park by the German authorities. It's not the original one that was used to crack the code, and it certainly wasn't stolen from the Germans
Okay, since you've managed to live life thus far without understanding the concept of linear time I'll have a go at giving you the basics.
;^)
Time, according to some, is an abstract to define a sequence of events. Each event can only happen subsiquent to the previous event's completion and prior to the next event. So, for example, imagine yourself in a queue at the cinema. The person in front of you represents an event or instance that you haven't reached yet; the future. The person behind you represents the past; he/she is an instance or event that you have passed. You, always, remain firmly planted in the present, an instant between the past and present. As the queue moves one pace foreward, you get to move to where the person representing the future was standing. But he/she is no longer there...as they will have moved foreward as well. The past has also moved up to the familar place you have just been, one pace behind you.
This is the simple progression of time. Study it well.
Pop-quiz, hotshots:
The future is in front of you, do you:
a)describe in perfect detail what the future is like
b)have a vague idea about what it's like, and able to make estimates what it's like, but can not say with absolute certainty what it is like
c)move forward faster than the future can get out of your way
d) eye the future longingly, but never move towards it
My God! It takes time to write articles, put up web pages and sort through what is news and what is momentary hysteria. Give these guys a break. It's not like they're putting up ancient news(although that could be interesting!).
Who am I to lecture you on this?
I'm a university student swamped with deadlines and use to my web page going out of date almost as soon as I update it.
By the way, the answer to the pop quiz is c...
Well, it's supposed to be, but people tend to opt for options a, c and d all too often.
Concrete analysis...
Enigma was awesome. Nobody could decipher it. We had to steal one of the machines to crack the code. German agents were ordered to destroy their machines before they died to keep them from falling into the Allies' hands. Funny. The Allies had to steal the source of the encryption to crack it. Today, we could crack it in a matter of minutes.
Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry "Uncle,"
From the Red Sea to Greenland they'll be singing the blues
Well, they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
Well she'll ransack Pakistan and run a scam in Scandinavia
Then she'll stick 'em up Down Under and go pick-pocket Perth
She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Oh, tell me, where in the world is...tell me, where can she be?
Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam, Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu!
Well she glides around the globe, and she'll flim-flam every nation
She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery
Her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations
Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Has anyone looked on e-bay yet?
In part of the game Jigsaw You have to break an enigma code, and can play with an enigma machine.
You need a Z-code interpreter to play it - I suggest frotz
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As a .WAV. Just a snippet.
Just so you know, your sig is pretty useless. I already know that you, Waldo, posted your post. I know your e-mail address is waldo@waldo.net and that your homepage is at http://www.waldo.net. I know that you're a ``21-year-old geek. Owner of Munk & Phyber, lover of Macs and Linux, resident of Charlottesville.'' Basically, my point is that your sig is telling me nothing I don't know. Tagging your posts with -Waldo is a waste of everybody's bandwidth. For every post of yours I read, I have to download an additional 14 bytes (the HTML is <BR>-Waldo<BR> = 14 bytes) that are pretty superfluous and less informative than the info /. already gives me. If everybody trimmed their sigs of the useless crap, /. could be a bit faster. Granted, not much, but every little bit helps.
.sig.) That means that I've wasted 140 bytes. You just wasted about 400. (Though some might say that you wasted 839 bytes.)
:)
You repeated yourself several times in this post. The text of your message was 839 bytes. I've written "-Waldo" at the end of perhaps 10 messages. (It's not a
I write my signature at the bottom of my snail-mail, but it's on the envelope. I write my name at the end of my e-mail, but it's in the header. The world is full of redundancy. The world is full of redudancy. (Doh! That's 31 bytes!)
You must have the page for The Bandwidth Conservation Society as your home page, eh?
-Waldo
After examining the clues and interviewing several people at the museum, I suspect that she is in Rio De Janiero.
/. forum in order to take action and take a flight there.
She *always* ends up there!
:)
I'll just need the general consensus of the
One version of the Enigma code was broken before the war. I thought the Polish had actually deciphered it at gave it to the English shortly after Poland was invaded. There were several different versions to the Enigma machine, the navy had one, other forces had others. The SS eventually developed an Enigma with ~12 dials (I think the original at the start of the war had 5 or 6).
Please don't trust what I've written as my memory is a bit shaky (I try to remember the important things and vaguely remember the rest).
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I can say that being the cryotpgeek that I am, if I was going to be a thief and take something I'd want to take an Enigma machine. It would be a bad ass piece to have in my study. My hat is off to the gent for ripping it off. At least he didn't take something useless like a painting or some jewel laced golden artifact, he stole something that was calssified for years.
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I imagine that many Poles feel the same way about the hundreds of books and articles that say that the British cracked the Enigma.
The password file was encrypted with a mutant version of DES. The crypt(1) program used a one-rotor version of Enigma.
they could be breaking crypto export regulations
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Not if they took a large hammer and squashed it flat, pressed it into sheets, and put a cover on it. Then it would be a book, and protected free speech
Will in Seattle
LOL.
Well, I know she visited the Mechanic Shop and I know she was at the Football Stadium in Florida but I have to keep looking.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
I know the Enigma algorithm is known, but has anybody actually implemented it in C or anything? That'd be fun to play with.
I was investigating at the Library today -- someone dropped a teal and purple flower pot from a window and almost hit me on the head. Everyone knows that, when that happens, the villian is hiding out in town somewhere.
I still have to investigate the tourist center and sports arena, but I've already used the crime computer to generate an arrest warrant.
After this, I'm only two cases away from my next promotion!
Take care,
Steve
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Stephen C. VanDahm
Is it possibly some kind of really, really lame movie promotion for the new Bill Paxton movie?
U-571
Isn't it about a bunch of US Marines who end up dying after stealing an enigma machine off a German U-boat and thus help the allies win world war II?
Remember when "Armaggedon" came out and suddenly NASA decided an asteroid was going to crash into the earth in 2025.. then released that they're was a million to chance that an asteroid was going to kill us all... lame, lame, lame.
I wanted to see U-571 anyway, they didn't have to go and stage this lameness...
The Station-X guys were geniuses because they found ways to discover the keys used for messages by examining ciphertext, and hence recover the plaintext.
Of course, that didn't stop my government hounding Alan Turing after the war for being a homosexual, quite probably leading to his eventual suicide.
THe Enigma code was cracked by the Brits long before 1945.
There are (relatively) many Enigma machines, but there are only two -other- machines exactly like the missing one.
I think that was the Lorentz - a teletype based machine. An absolutely remarkable achievememnt when you consider that they hadn't even SEEN one of these machines.
Enigma was cracked because a letter could not be encoded to itself. Therefore if you knew the clear text, you could match it with the appropriate position on the cyphertext (No matching letters), and dramatically reduce the number of matching configurations. There were a few other tricks they learned too, such as a repeated letter sometimes matched onto the same code letter as the previous time.
Is 007 the IQ?
Fight Spammers!
May 14, 1945, Washington D.C. In a breaking story, noted adventurer and time traveler Mark Smith returned from a secret mission yesterday, carrying a mysterious contraption. Rumors suggest that this enigmatic object may be the secret to cracking secret Axis information packages, but the president has thus far refused to respond to reporters' questions.
More information to follow as the story breaks.
-- Still waiting for the Nike endorsement
Now i'm going to have to stop using the Winigma(tm) crypto program I just bought...
Wrong! Next month's code was sometimes passed around encoded with the current code to the operators. It was cracked when a long message had to be retyped by a disgruntled operator, who made one typing error in the message. From this, the girls at Bletchley Park (The UK's code-cracking center during the war and where Alan Turing worked, and eventually designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer...) were able to work out the shifting of the wheels within Enigma.
Or something.
awx
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
Strange how the the Enigma save the planet (exagerated) and shortened the war (true). The people who cracked it were brilliant heroes (true). But the guy who wrote DeCSS is a criminal and a hacker (oh my god he's one of THEM!).
In todays society the people who cracked the enigma would be locked up, sued, and branded criminals. Ironic, it's all a matter of timing.
Neil Cherry - Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
So, in 1945, a coder was a machine, and a computer was a person...
What, me worry?
I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
Where in the world is she?
Breaks out into acapella song
After the cracking of CSS, they must be looking for a replacement technology. The article said this was one of two Enigma machines in the world...I wouldn't be surprised if the other one goes missing as well.
Try out genigma. Runs on X, released under the GPL. Way easier than getting arrested.
-Waldo
Does this mean they'll stop questioning Kevin Mitnick about this latest computer crime?
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p