Great Britain: Boffins to crack al-Qaeda (Codebreaking effort launched, much like 'Enigma' of WW2)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006060947,00.html ^ | February 10, 2006 | GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON

[Stoat]

Boffins to crack al-Qaeda

Code breakers ... Bletchley Park
 

By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON

 GORDON Brown will use the brains that won World War Two to break al-Qaeda’s secret computer codes.

The Chancellor will spend millions assembling a star chamber of eggheads — a new Bletchley Park — to defeat Muslim extremists.

Mr Brown will reveal in a keynote speech in London on Monday: “I have found myself immersed in measures designed to cut off sources of terrorist finance.

“This requires an operation using modern methods of forensic accounting as imaginative and pathbreaking as the Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park.”

The Chancellor wants to gather the greatest brains in Britain — and across the world — to work on al-Qaeda messages.

The aim is to intercept emails and uncover the secret codes used by terrorist extremists to fund their spectacular outrages.

Mr Brown’s decision to take control of the terror crisis West shows he is gradually planning for the Premiership.

Bletchley Park — the top secret centre for codebreakers based near Oxford — was immortalised in Kate Winslet film Enigma in 2001.

Boffins broke the famous Nazi Enigma code, allowing the Allies to eavesdrop on Hitler’s war plans.

Mr Brown has held talks already with MI5 and MI6.

[Stoat]

I must confess that I was rather surprised to learn that this sort of thing was not already in place and working....on both sides of the pond.

Biography of Gordon Brown

 

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Brown was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 2 May 1997. He has been MP for Dunfermline East since 1983 and was Opposition spokesperson on Treasury and Economic Affairs (Shadow Chancellor) from 1992.

Mr Brown was born in 1951 and educated at Kirkcaldy High School and Edinburgh University where he gained 1st Class Honours and then a Doctorate. He was Rector of Edinburgh University and Chairman of the University Court between 1972 and 1975. From 1976 to 1980, Mr Brown lectured at Edinburgh University and then Caledonian University before taking up a post at Scottish TV (1980 - 1983).

After becoming an MP, Mr Brown was the Chair of the Labour Party Scottish Council (1983 - 1984). Before becoming Shadow Chancellor he held two other senior posts on the Opposition front bench - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1987 - 1989) and Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary (1989 -1992).

Mr Brown has had a number of works published including Maxton, The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution and Where There is Greed. He has edited a number of books including John Smith: Life and Soul of the Party and Values, Visions and Voices.

Outside of work, Mr Brown`s interests include football, tennis and film.

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See Also:

Brown hails Bush's war (Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers glowing endorsement)

 

Biography of Gordon Brown

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

ping for later read

[capt. norm]

It's all over for Osama and the A-Q.

The nerds are going after them now!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Geez, would someone PLEASE inform the Mayor of LA before proceeding any further? I'm SICK of listening to him whine that no one tells him ANYTHING!!!!

[LibFreeOrDie]

Hope they have better luck than the FBI did with this project:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/05/AR2005060501213.html

(And I hope they find an equal to Alan Turing.)

[bybybill]

The Brits should buy TV time in Arab land and let them all know our next project.

[claudiustg]

Shouldn't someone tell them these "code machines" to longer have those nifty little gears and tumblers?

[M Kehoe]

Well, why don't we just give the a$$holes the codes? It's like these stupid hearings on Capitol Hill. Better yet, why don't we give al-Queda Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth amendment protection under OUR Constitution? Sheesh. Under the Geneva Conventions, most of these animals would be SHOT.

In my time, if I'd have given the nyt launch code verification procedures, and it was published, I would have been tried for treason, convicted, sentenced, and hung.

We are at war. If anyone reading this doubts we are at war, then I will be courteous, and not call them a richard cranium.

5.56mm

[peyton randolph]

The Brits should buy TV time in Arab land and let them all know our next project.

Cheaper to tell the CIA or Jay Rockefeller and have it passed on to the NY Slimes.

[vbmoneyspender]

I guess things move quicker nowadays. After WWII ended, it took decades for the story of Enigma to come out. But nowadays we've details of our codebreaking efforts coming out before the war has even ended.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi
http://www.sofir.org
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memritv.org
http://www.jihadwatch.org
http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html

[caveat emptor]

(And I hope they find an equal to Alan Turing.)

Big shoes to fill

[308MBR]

What, if anything, will happen when it is found the trail leads right back to the house of Saud, Iran, Syria, MEMRI, CAIR, and the United Way?

Nothing will be done. It's just like the war on drugs or the EPA; a bunch of bureaucrats trying to justify their position by perpetuating an easily resolved problem while not impacting (or enhancing) their wallets.

[capt. norm]

house of Saud

The time-tested theory: "Follow the Money" makes perfect sense once again.

Thank you for helping me connect the dots.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Turing machines are really interesting. Studied them in a Formal Languages course.

I saw "Breaking the Code" starring Derek Jacobi, but I was disappointed that it dealt more with Turing's personal life instead of his ideas.

[Canard]

"I guess things move quicker nowadays. After WWII ended, it took decades for the story of Enigma to come out. But nowadays we've details of our codebreaking efforts coming out before the war has even ended."

So, in view of this 'things moving quicker', if we do crack these codes, how long do you think we're looking at before someone makes a movie that claims that it was America that did it really? ;)

[TheZMan]

I guess things move quicker nowadays. After WWII ended, it took decades for the story of Enigma to come out. But nowadays we've details of our codebreaking efforts coming out before the war has even ended.

No no, things don't move quicker.

People back then just knew when it was best to keep their F^$@(&* mouths shut.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Geez, would someone PLEASE inform the Mayor of LA before proceeding any further? I'm SICK of listening to him whine that no one tells him ANYTHING!!!!"

I heard he's having a beer with Mike Holmgren this weekend. They're going to cry in each other's mugs.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"The Brits should buy TV time in Arab land and let them all know our next project.

Cheaper to tell the CIA or Jay Rockefeller and have it passed on to the NY Slimes."

So pathetically true.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Something good can always be made better.

But why are they blithering about this to the press anyhow. Trying to warn al-Qaeda to use better codes?