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There were countless of individuals that worked on breaking Enigma encryption machine employed by the Nazi’s during WW2. You can rest assured that their work m
by andreilys 6y ago
There were countless of individuals that worked on breaking Enigma encryption machine employed by the Nazi’s during WW2.
You can rest assured that their work mattered, even if they couldn’t talk about it.
- gcheong 6y agoYeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers to warrant the comparison so when someone from Apple says they can’t tell me what they’re working on it just sounds like corporate arrogance or paranoia, smoke and mirrors to play up a carefully crafted and managed corporate image, not something I’m counting on for the future of society.
- xvector 6y agoI would say the creation of the iPhone was at least as impactful.
- coldtea 6y ago>Yeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers That's probably because the Enigma code breaking has been mythologized. The war would have won without it (and it mostly was on the Eastern front anyway).
- gcheong 6y agoIt’s easy to say that in retrospect but to anyone working on it I’m sure it felt more important for the outcome of the war than being able to put 1000 songs in your pocket or whatever.
- Apocryphon 6y agoOkay, then replace the Enigma reference with the Manhattan Project, an operation so secret the military built a city isolated from the world for it.
- coldtea 6y agoYeah, while that was even less important in winning WWII (the Germans were done for, and the Japs were just grasping at straws, uterly defeated), it was hugely important for the cold-war period, and probably forever.
- temac 6y ago> The war would have won without it And then without the next advantage, and then without the next one, etc.? At some point everything counts.