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Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Enigma Machine

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-touching-it dept.

Adler writes: "A man has pleaded guilty to to 'handling' the stolen Enigma machine in the UK. Its a short piece, but says that some vital parts of the machine are still missing. A longer BBC News piece is here." You may remember when this was first stolen, then held for ransom, then recovered -- this is the mopping up part.

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  1. He would have gotten away with it ... by ez76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only he had wrapped it in a better conundrum ...

    1. Re:He would have gotten away with it ... by Alsee · · Score: 0, Funny

      How can voicing your agreement with someone be considered offtopic? Seriously, what is wrong with you people and your moderation points? I can't wait to see you assholes in meta moderation.

      I couldn't agree with you more Anonymous Coward. Metamoderating him down is too good for him. Whoever moderated the post -1 offtopic should taken out and SHOT.
      He should have moderated it as -1 redundant.

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  2. If only... by BIGJIMSLATE · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he could've stolen U-571 before the audiences were forced to watch that crap.

    I'd have to give him a medal if he did that. ;)

  3. Turing would be turning in his grave ... by srealm · · Score: 5, Funny

    As the US government now demands that a backdoor be put into this World War II relic ... it WAS considered 'strong' encryption in World War II anyway ...

    1. Re:Turing would be turning in his grave ... by nexex · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm, isn't this man now a circumvention device, better get the DMCA outta the holster!

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  4. come on people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where are your priorites!

    Pearl Harbor was just attacked 57 years ago and you people are talking about some crappy shit noone cares about!

  5. Re:Encryption? by thebowery · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, use the enigma system to encrypt your credit card details and post them as a reply to this message.

    Then we will see if it is still a valid encryption method :-)

    /me thinks symmetric cyphers which do not encode a letter as itself ever should be easy prey for any modern computer

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  6. Re:Encryption? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, enigma isn't secure enough for anything serious these days. An enigma message could be decrypted in seconds on a Palm Pilot.

    On the other hand, you could use the DMCA to sue anyone who decrypted it without your permission. :)

  7. And in related news... by chrae · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the country of Poland is being charged under the DMCA for creating a device capable of circumventing copyright. What they did was clear disrespect for the Nazi's intellectual property rights.


    "First they tell you you're wrong and they can prove it; then they tell you you're right but it isn't important; then they tell you it's important but they knew it all along." -Charles Kettering

  8. And in other news... by neema · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the recent trend to link everything to Osama Bin Laden, many officals believe the Enigma was being used by Bin Laden as described before as his "High Tech Cryptography" that he switched to after he found out the US was monitoring his satellite phone conversations.

  9. Re:On a related note by BillGodfrey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah well, at least we have movies like U571 to correctly tell us who was involved in the war.