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Stolen Enigma Machine Recovered In Style

Posted by timothy on from the leisurely-sunday-morning-reading dept.

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."

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  1. Isn't it ironic by empesey · · Score: 5

    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.

  2. very glad but... by garcia · · Score: 5

    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?

    the way that the artcile was written on /. 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...

    Just my worthless whining for this morning :)