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It feels like saying Bletchley Park just needed more diligent and loyal crib workers and they would have solved the Enigma. Without Turing and the Bombe where
by tmzt 13y ago
It feels like saying Bletchley Park just needed more diligent and loyal crib workers and they would have solved the Enigma.
Without Turing and the Bombe where would we all be?
- jessaustin 13y agoYeah well back then we had actual opponents. North Korea are crackpots, and some fundamentalists prefer living with goats in caves to comfortable air travel, but never in a million years will those cranks be the threat that the Axis or even the Soviets were.
- f00_ 13y agoObviously North Korea isn't near the threat of the Soviets/Axis, but I'd say they have a very real capability to destabilize, at the very least, the Korean Peninsula (non-violent dissolution), and at the most all of SE Asia (A nuclear attack/violent dissolution)
- PeterisP 13y agoDo you believe that China isn't a worthy enough competitor in electronic espionage? Or the occasionally conflicting interests with Russia and other countries? The main job of NSA isn't to support short-term military operations in whatever location they're fighting today, they have to ensure that if they suddenly need to focus on country X, then they already have years/decades worth of collected intelligence.
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- CamperBob2 13y agoAnd of course, what you say about "country X" also applies to "individual Y," doesn't it? How convenient.