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> but a modern Turing today would be vilified instantly.

Depends, is a modern Turing a champion of reading all domestic communications?

If domestic communications are all encrypted, then indirectly, yes.

No, but his team was also on the receiving end of policies like only using Enigma data for certain events. He knew of attacks that were probably avoidable that led to significant casualties. We can play the moral card all day here.

There's a world of difference between systematically eradicating privacy rights across the globe and withholding potentially life saving information because revealing it would risk exposing your source and thus your ability to do more good in the future.

If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear from this thread it is that for some people morality is a really tough subject.

To Godwin this thread decisively:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah-...

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