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Stolen Enigma Machine Recovered In Style
glomph writes: "A priceless Enigma crypto device (only three exist) was stolen this spring
from a museum in the UK. The Sunday Times describe in fascinating detail how they fully recovered the item. Codewords hidden in the newspaper, buried video tapes, meetings in dark misty cemeteries and other cloak-n-dagger stuff were used. The Bad Guy was also nabbed. A must-read tale."
How do we know that they actually caught the guy and got the machine back. This might be a bigger part of the complex plot to nab the real guy and get the real machine back. I think that this is just another coded message to the thief. Or not.
/me is thinking George Lucas should handle this and take some creative liberties by adding a lightsaber battle or two.
Also....this would make an excellent movie or novel...did anyone buy the rights to it yet?
i didn't know exciting stuff happened in the UK. whoa.
The anti-salmon
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Yesterday, attorneys for the long-dead Fuehrer filed a lawsuit in The Hague, alleging that the governments of the United States ("the Colonies") and the United Kingdom violated article 23 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) by reverse-engineering the Enigma machine.
When the Allies broke the Enigma's complex coding scheme, they were able to intercept and decrypt strategic Nazi communiques, eventually leading to Herr Hitler's suicide and an Allied victory.
Herr Doctor Spelunkenzweis, primary counsel for the late Hitler, claims that such blatant disregard of the creator's exclusive rights to his Intellectual Property is intolerable and that the perpetrators must be used as an example.
The late Hitler is seeking an already-controversial list of damages, including ownership of all assets of modern England, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Libya, and Ethiopia, as well as a written apology from the ghosts of the Right Honorable Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1999, marijuana killed 0 Americans...
Ewige Blumenkraft!
That was about the worst piece of writing I've ever seen.
I've read the stupid article about 5 times now, and much of it STILL makes no sense. Why did they do all of these seemingly pointless things to get it back? What was the point? The entire article read like a gigantic run-on sentence with no point displayed anywhere in there.
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Didn't it get stolen from the Germans first? They're going to prosecute a man, for stealing something, that is itself, stolen. And people got killed when it was originally stolen. From what I know, it was stolen with no lives lost. Maybe they're mad because he was able to accomplish the theft in a more efficient manner.
Someone call Alanis.
a 1971 UN agreement says anything stolen as war booty before 1971 is finders keepers. and the country that stole it can keep it. Same thing as the Rosetta Stone.. its from Egypt.. Egypt wants it back.. its in ENgland.. england stole it as war booty and refuses to return it because of the same 1971 agreement saying because of that agreement IT now owns the stone.
The movie U571 is a complete work of fiction. Only in Hollywood's dreams did the American Navy seize an Enigma machine from a German Sub early in WWII. The movie is loosly based on the capture of U110 by the British destroyer Bulldog on May 9, 1941, more than 7 months before Germany declared war on the US. The real U571 was sunk by an Australian Sunderland aircraft.
I reckon that the article itself was a secretly encoded message, hence its unreadability. I'll have to run it through my cryptoanalyzer.
"Orange pigs fly south for winter, aunt Betty misses you, please call the hat shop." Ahem.
There's a silmulation of it here and another here.
&l t;BR>Also, How does the enigma work? and a short history of the Enigma Machine,
ok, it is wonderful to have this important piece of history back where it belongs, and the theif caught, but was it really necessary to go through such lengths?
/. made it seem like it was REALLY interesting. I read the article (and even though I am a bit hungover still) it really wasn't that great and I was rather annoyed w/it. There were very few exciting details and in fact it really didn't say much other than it was recovered...
:)
the way that the artcile was written on
Just my worthless whining for this morning
The BBC has even newer news here. Also, they're a bit more cognisant of the english language than the Times. (i.e. tabloid trash)
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Well, thanks to the article, we now know that Alice's last name is Fletcher. Hopefully this useful bit of information will allow us to quickly determine the identity of Bob, Carol and Dave.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
According to the bletchley park webpage, the 3 rotors have still not been recovered.....
It seems to have gone unmentioned, for the most part, that the Sunday Times is Britain's equivalent of the National Enquirer. This article is most probably utter bullshit, I mean THE Sunday Times has negotiated secretly for weeks to ensure the safe return ... ??? And don't forget the Sunday Times was also the rag that brought Britain the Hitler Diaries.
;)
You Americans need to cultivate a healthy distrust of the media
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