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For non-Brits, "Cheltenham" = GCHQ

• nostrademons 8y ago
  For non-Brits, GCHQ = the British intelligence service, roughly equivalent to the US NSA. (This non-Brit had to Google.)
  • subcosmos 8y ago
    My hobby : Showing people in the bay area this photograph and asking them if they've seen the new Apple HQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters#/media/File:Aerial_of_GCHQ,_Cheltenham,_Gloucestershire,_England_24May2017_arp.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Head...
  • smcl 8y ago
    Ah sorry, I figured that after all the Snowden leaks the intelligence service acronyms were widely known on HN. GHCQ were particularly prominent in many of the leaks
  • KineticLensman 8y ago
    a.k.a "The Doughnut" because of the shape of the building: [0] // For non-Brits, 'doughnut' = 'donut' [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut
• deleted 8y ago
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