Visiting the UK's digital spooks

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3044, 2015, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Aron talks about his experience inside the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). He has been invited here for the launch of a new biography, Prof: Alan Turing Decoded, written by his nephew Dermot Turing. Alan Turing was one of the leading second world war codebreakers at the proto-GCHQ Bletchley Park, and the modern day spooks hold him dear in their hearts. But the event, the first of its kind at GCHQ strikes him something of a PR stunt for an agency that is now mostly associated with mass surveillance and the continuing revelations from Edward Snowden