[Cryptography] I broke a cipher this week.
ianG
iang at iang.org
Tue May 26 09:58:30 EDT 2015
On 26/05/2015 06:08 am, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> 2015-05-23 19:29 GMT+09:00 ianG <iang at iang.org <mailto:iang at iang.org>>:
>
> I just last night watched _The Imitation Game_. Apparently WWII was
> won because one man had a girlfriend, so didn't follow orders. Yes,
> whatever, it was fiction, but the story is indicative.
>
>
> The painful thing is not that it was totally unrealistic and inaccurate,
> nor even that it pretended to be. The forcefully inserted feminism
> wasn't that bad either. The problem is that people believed it, and
> liked it.
So you're saying the script writer and director did a good job :) No
bad thing.
At the beginning, it said "based on a true story" not documentary.
A better question might be, did people enjoy it, and did they come away
with a helpful view of our world?
iang
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