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Thursday, March 18 

A little side note...

Aaron wrote in:

Alan Turing was gay. He was also one of the worlds greatest cryptographic codebreakers and his logic helped the Allies break the encrypted messages of the German Enigma. Without his contribution the fate of the war is very much in debate. At Belchley Park where all the codebreaking was done he was accepted even though he was gay. After the war research institutes like the NSA and DARPA refused to allow him to work on anymore cryptograhpy and outed him to the general public as gay. Several years later he committed suicide because his genius would no longer be recognized.

In light of your recent blog I thought you might find that remotely interesting if not simply delete the last 10 minutes of your memory.

- Thanks Aaron. That actually IS interesting. Thanks for bringing it to light! M.

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