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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 ...

  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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.