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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.

2 of 155 comments (clear)

  1. Where the missing bits are by MarkusQ · · Score: 2, Redundant
    I predict that the missing parts will be found wrapped in a riddle.

    -- MarkusQ

  2. Missing pieces, eh? by thejake316 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How do you know the UK hasn't just imposed a backdoor to the Enigma encryption algorithm to protect us from terrorists?

    --
    AC's cheerfully ignored