They were able to decipher the German code😱

[@Slatryte-yw4ks]

Missed the sad scene right after this. They found out the boat that one of the team member's brother was on was about to get struck. They could've reported it to the Navy and saved him, but that would mean the Germans would find out Enigma got cracked. So they left him to die.

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

Don't be sad though, that part of the film was completely made up. The real life story of Turing and Bletchley is much more interesting

[@xmarine73]

​@@pilotwhaleproductions5880 ... and likewise, sad.

[@jackwriter1908]

​@@pilotwhaleproductions5880 and with a far more shitty ending

[@internetbodhi1009]

​@@pilotwhaleproductions5880 you're right. Don't be sad for that, be sad that the hero of WW2 was forced to lose his manhood because even though he beat evil, what he preferred in the privacy of his home with consenting men was too much for the British to bear. Such absolute hypocrites.

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

@@internetbodhi1009 I mean you say that but it was the American intelligence agency (at the time transitioning from OSS to CIA) that lobbied the British judiciary and eventually assassinated him over concerns he would be blackmailed by the Soviets. An immense loss either way but Britain was the most progressive of world nations at the time even if it seems backwards by today's standards

[@bodhiswayze1892]

We owe so much to Alan Turing, I will always be ashamed of my country for the way he was treated by the British Government after the war. He saved thousands of lives, he’s an absolute legend.

[@John_Mcgrane]

Don't focus on him alone. There is so much to be ashamed of.

[@cat_loves_curry5157]

And for plundering and looting half of the world and leaving them to be the so called third world countries! All that blood is on your country and monarchies hands! Including the ongoing genocide.

[@achannelhasnoname5182]

One would think that they would go a bit more easy on war heroes.

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

​@@John_Mcgraneand much more to be proud of assuming your not learning history from Americans

[@TheTanadu]

We owe so much to Polish mathematicians firsts. Without their work, Alan Turing wouldn't sit on Enigma with his team and solve newer versions of it.

[@jaybandu6976]

Alan Turing - father of computer science. Was gay back when it was illegal in England. He opted for Chemical Castration rather than going to prison. Died two years later from Cyanide Poison which could have possibly been a suicide. Really sad end to a great man that could have achieved way more than he already had.

[@ganasekhar2734]

Movie name: The Imitation Game. If anyone is wondering

[@igypop.]

thank you..

[@dcg4mn]

It’s excellent. I could see it again actually

[@vanpenguin22]

I came to the comments section particularly hoping to stumble upon that very thing! Blessings!

[@Lakehurst69]

I watched this again 2 weeks ago.

[@chuckfunkle]

What? This is clearly from the Barbie Movie.

[@Zairilia]

The cruelty of the British government towards an incredible genius must never be forgotten. They forced him to suffer and ultimately killed him. We call him the father of computation and he will always live on.

[@aaron.the.blasian]

movie name: the imitation game

[@warringtonminge4167]

The Imitation Game. A scummy traducing of the truth, utterly disliked at Bletchley, using real names of real people to invent total fabrication to portray them in a bad light. For a start Cmdr Denniston was utterly supportive of Turing throughout so that film is f'cked up right from the start.

[@FidelityRacing]

I thought it was Darude - Sandstorm

[@spacewalk3046]

@@FidelityRacing cant believe this is still being said

[@banaresali]

uk treated him like shit after he saved countless thousands of lives..typical of using Governments. they care not about anyone but themselves.

[@WilliamWizer]

in fact, enigma had, at least, another flaw. it never encoded a letter as itself. if the ciphered message contained an S, you could be sure that, in that place, the message had anything but an S. same with the other letters, of course.

[@daylen577]

So at that point it really just becomes a sudoku trying to find any and all valid words that fit the letters you can rule out

[@tobiaszjerzak1165]

@@daylen577 Oh wow

[@Ryanator1107]

Okay but doing how many of these every 24 hours?

[@WilliamWizer]

@@Ryanator1107 using only that flaw? too many. adding that flaw to other methods? not enough to stop deciphering.

[@WilliamWizer]

@@daylen577 more or less. but the flaw Alan found (all messages begin with "Heil Hitler") reduced the list of possible combinations greatly since it was known how enigma letter replacement worked. that gave you a lot of extra clues to solve the "sudoku"

[@louisavondart9178]

It wasn't Heil Hitler. It was Guten Morgen. Sent by a weather station in the artic circle every day.

[@verward]

I think they found multiple phrases that were repeat uses. There was also a difference between the Naval system and the Wehrmacht. Heil Hitler was used obsessively as a greeting by the Nazis.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

verward is right, there were multiple phrases. Heil Hitler was used by a radioman in the 1st SS Panzerdivision.

[@thelonestead]

GM

[@takaetono6773]

Wir waren einfach zu höflich.

[@ahamay2012]

@@takaetono6773 Und daran hat sich nichts geändert.

[@tomlarter3894]

Britain should be ashamed of how they treated this genius

[@warringtonminge4167]

@@tomlarter3894 We are.

[@clivejungle6999]

Where was sodomy legal in the West in the 50s?

[@PurpleCh4lk]

@@clivejungle6999 My wild guess is nowhere. But they still treated him horribly considering he probably saved thousands of lives.

[@notoriousblt1038]

@@clivejungle6999it’s insane to me that something like that was a crime at all

[@pamelacass9642]

They were willing to let him kill himself. Think he wasn't the only British person Great Britain killed off? How many countries "forgave" the citizens they didn't like?

[@dcjohnson2208]

I’m an old retired scientist (octogenarian) (hard sciences: Physics, mathematics, electronic engineering, computer sciences). I was a code breaker in 1970-72. The DOD had created the “Unbreakable” code and offered $5,000,000 to anyone or group that could break it. DOD estimated it would take a computer the size of Texas over 1000 years to break their code. Network computers were just being developed. I worked on one of the first modems to connect over “dirty” phone lines for the United States Army materiel command in the 1960’s. A few universities and a few corporate computers that were networked plus a few hundred students, scientists and engineers got together and broke the code in three months! The DOD has never made such a boast or offered such a reward since. The reward offer was published in newspapers of that time.

[@barbaramarrs5113]

US military higher ups were so conceited they did not code their messages. They did not think the enemy was smart enough to understand English.

[@ddavies1967]

Great story. Thank you. That would make a good premise for a film.

[@ricklorimer9984]

Out of curiosity, what programming languages were you using? I was learning Fortran in the 60s

[@mollytrudeau4189]

Did you split the reward?

[@dcjohnson2208]

@@mollytrudeau4189 We agreed to split it amongst the universities that participated

[@GJ203]

Man that movie enraged me. What Turing did was nothing short of amazing, but the way the dramatised it and completely glossed over the work of the Polish Cipher Beauro (who actually completely cracked an earlier form of Enigma in the 30s) is just annoying.

[@joshgetsnoladies]

This movie is great but it also has a flaw. It depicted Alan Turing as this loner, probably mentally disabled (adhd or autism), when in reality he wasn't. It sucks what Hollywood has to do in order to make a good film. It made a lot of people pity him more for a disability which didnt exist than the fact he killed himself because of how Britian treated homosexuals

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

They didn't want to picture that sad fact. They? Hollyweird of all thems ....

[@Lakehurst69]

Benedict Cumberbatch's name is a mouthful, but he is a fabulous actor.

[@Guds777]

Benny Pengwings is easier... :D :D

[@golic7123]

RIP Alan . . . We'll never forget how amazing you were

[@t3c94]

Doesn't do him much good now 😢

[@jonnybrello4360]

@@t3c94 To be fair, it never would have, regardless.

[@tntgdh]

all the bad things peeople did to him after all he did for mankind

[@TexTom1981]

Vast majority of people have no idea who Alan WAS.

[@golic7123]

. . . . . and that's so sad - Every Britain owes this gently hero, an insurmountable debt of gratitude What our Govt & Judicial system did to him was unforgivable People who know, will always remember him !

[@MarkHorton-n3t]

There were at least two separate efforts at breaking codes at Benchly. While Turing's efforts to break Enigma were mechanical they would certainly use context as in this clip, another branch was based on it. They went so far as to determine what aircraft to use on patrol flights to control what message observers would send.

[@jarodmorris4408]

That's brilliant. Plant the aircraft type knowing it would appear in the report and when you know the structure of the report, you know which section should identify the aircraft type seen.

[@thegreyarea-WPP]

Bletchley Park, just in case you didn’t know. With auto incorrect these days it’s hard to tell.

[@MarkHorton-n3t]

@thegreyarea-WPP I misspelled it.

[@thegreyarea-WPP]

@ That’s all good. I just thought I would check. My phone likes to change things into sentences that make no sense at all so I figured it might just be a standard case of autofuckup

[@robertbrooks-spicer7199]

My Uncle ran radio intercepts for Bletchley Park and we didn't know until a little while ago. Checked the Roll Of Honour on the Website and there he was !!

[@dineshkalyanasundaram8452]

What a blessing!!

[@pacificostudios]

"The Imitation Game" did a fantastic job of telling a very complicated story, although of course they greatly simplified things, but they communicated what was at stake: Life and death, freedom and slavery. Nothing more important than that.

[@quique7764]

Sad what the British gov did to after the war. He literally saved thousands upon thousands of lives & ended the war earlier cus he deciphered German codes. He may of nvr picked up rifle but w/o a doubt many ppl would not be alive today if not for him & his team. An absolute legend. RIP

[@psychoniczny]

😂😂😂😂 pools mensen hebben dat gedan niet jullie mongolen van england

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@psychonicznybiorą kredyt za siebie jak by oni to zrobili, ludzie zapomnieli że bez pracy tych polskich matematyków i kryptografów, Alan by nic nie odszyfrował 😂

[@onsendiva4695]

@@bushwhacker_420x4 I am sure these people are celebrated in Poland and I would doubt that Turing is - seems reasonable both ways to me. It also seems reasonable to celebrate the actual breaking of the code and crucially by machine and finally the actual effect that was achieved - which by the way eventually helped liberate europe from the Nazis (though sadly not from the USSR - good to see that eventually came right for Poland)

[@stevealbenetyh38]

illegitimate US gov pending to bring back this witchhunt.

[@tamnickyle]

What's even sadder is that the world has been indoctrinated into thinking the good guys won.

[@vorpalalice82]

The man saved the entirety of the Allied forces and they still killed him because he was gay.

[@kaotickj]

German weather reports played a crucial role in the breaking of Enigma during World War II by providing predictable plaintext, or "cribs," which were essential for deciphering encrypted messages. These reports, which were regularly transmitted with standardized content and structure, provided cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park with a valuable entry point to crack the Enigma code.

[@cthoadmin7458]

The RAF would even bomb specific enemy areas knowing that the germans would send a situation report in a known fixed format with the known location. Then, they knew the plain text, they had the cypher text sent, and they could work out what the initial cypher settings must have been.

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

Except cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park didn't brake Enigma. A French spy got book with Enigma codes (IIRC). It was Polish mathematicians that built machine that encrypted Enigma, Bomba. But Enigma was getting bigger and more complex, and Poles had no funds. That's when Bletchley Park and Alan Turing comes in. Turing improved Bomba. I think, Enigma was broken before war started, 1938? I'm not sure.

[@mahisathsarani5678]

The fact that Alan Turing saved countless lives and got betrayed by his own nation. Makes you wonder if he would've fended off better without

[@marekbarycz4397]

You sicken me . Not knowing truth . UK propaganda is strong . Read real history of breaking Enigma.

[@sofialaska9985]

Polish mathematicians and cryptologists: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski made groundbreaking discoveries regarding the German Enigma cipher machine and broke its code.

[@allthingsharbor]

The Poles did indeed break earlier codes. More importantly, Poles fleeing the Nazis brought with them components of the Enigma machine. But Enigma machines morphed over the decade and THIS current variant WAS broke by Ultra.

[@RocketRon7779]

Eastern Europeans = Very Smart (that's what my Polish wife told me ::)

[@clivejungle6999]

So? Didn’t do much with that info considering it was conquered.

[@RadosES]

​@clivejungle6999 To know what's coming doesn't mean you have the means to prevent it.

[@Natures_Symmetry]

They broke some of it, and on a 3 wheel Enigma. WW2 Enigma had 4 wheels. Turing was the one who was able to take the decoding to the next level on a massive scale. Based on the Polish work. But he got it to where it needs to be to win the war.

[@Purfunxion]

The British government will never be able to make up for what they did to Turing after all his work.

[@norasheffield8036]

I’ve seen this movie multiple times and it is one of Benedict Cumberbatch’s preeminent roles. The sad part is what happens to Alan Turing after he is used by the Allies to solve Enigma. The great part is he will live on forever because his name is forever linked to the test for consciousness in AI with the “Turing Test”.

[@rbarnes4076]

I work in the software industry. I can assure you we all value him for more than that.. but I take your point.. That said, most people would not know the importance of Turing's name outside people in my own industry. He is a nobody at least to most Americans (sadly)

[@norasheffield8036]

@ Understood. As an American, science fiction geek, polymath, and general knowledge seeker of this world and more if I could get to one, ☝️, I just think of our past Scy-Fy guys and what visionaries they were and imagine where men such as Alan Turing has led and will continue to lead the earth, and with AI on the horizon, beyond. 😊

[@jeffnolan7392]

NAME!!

[@kal.asther]

Also programming.

[@lenovo4701]

Name of the movie please

[@Yuumiiiiiiiii]

I like how the weakest part of enigma was the people using it. it was a phenomenal machine, and would never been as easy to hack like this if only Germans didn't in their gloating self-idolisation that nobody will decipher it

[@seven11seven]

386 / 5 000 In 1932, a group of Polish cryptologists led by Marian Rejewski achieved something considered impossible - they broke the code of the German Enigma cipher machine. This event changed the course of World War II. Thanks to the work of Polish mathematicians, the Allies knew the content of secret German dispatches. The Poles shared their discovery with the British. The Polish idea was improved by Alan Turing.

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

Yet the Brits don’t acknowledge the work of the poles and just take credit for themselves saying Turing done it, those who don’t know history are ignorant of the facts and choose to stick to bigotry.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

@@bushwhacker_420x4 in the displays at Bletchley Park the work of the Poles is mentioned. It may not be well known in public, but they do acknowledge it.

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@ thanks for the insight, the Poles really do deserve more recognition for their efforts before and during the war.

[@mrbrown6421]

1932 ?

[@dynamitedingo8183]

they broke an earlier much easier to decode version. Turing broke the version hitlers top men created. which was magnitudes harder.

[@LuckyScar]

Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist, pioneer of modern cipher-breaking methods, designer of the so-called "crypto-bomb. In 1932 he broke the cipher of Enigma, the most important cipher machine used by Nazi Germany. During World War II, he served in the radio intelligence company of the Commander-in-Chief's Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. He was in charge of decrypting German correspondence. For his deeds he was decorated several times and was included in the pantheon of the most outstanding cryptologists of all time.

[@warringtonminge4167]

Alan Turing was beaten to it by Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rózycki and Henryk Zygalski without whose work (turned over to the French then the British at the start of WWII) the Nazi codes would have been cracked far far later or potentially not at all. There is no question that Turing, Welchman, Dilly Knox and about 9,000 other extreme intellects were unarguably brilliant but please can we not forget the contribution of the Polish mathematicians who provided the totality of their work - and an Enigma machine - to make Bletchley Park possible.🇵🇱 No i'm not Polish but have a close relative who worked at Bletchley in WWII.

[@lancethrustworthy]

Salute to the diligent Polish mathematicians and the rest who applied their many millions of neural synapses to essentially brute force the answer. Salute!

[@verward]

Well they were doing different things really. The Polish cracked the code, in the sense they found out how enigma is encrypted. But the whole point of the enigma is that the code is randomized every day and you need to know the key everyday to translate the message. Turing figured out how to calculate the key everyday by finding the standardized phrase "heil Hitler" at the end of every message, which was more complex. Both were crucial of course.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

@@verward actually searching for "Heil Hitler" is a simplification. The africa corps had an observer who daily sent "Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse"(nothing to report) A radioman of the 1st SS Panzerdivision actually used "Heil Hitler" at the end of each message. The Uboats weather messages all contained "Wettervorhersage"(weather forecast) it was all different phrases. They would first identify the radioman by his rhythm of morsing, then search for his typical phrase . in order to find the phrases they had several german speakers with military background.

[@thaddeuszukowski4633]

The Polish getting an Enigma machine to Britain was ESSENTIAL to breaking the code. As was ALL the maths done by ALL involved.

[@gospelofrye6881]

And the first Enigma machine was not recovered by American submariners either. 🤣 I guess you can take solace from the fact that anyone who knows anything at all about code breaking knows this, and anyone who knows anything about the history of Science Fiction and information technology knows to check if whatever they just learned about was discovered/developed by a Polish person first.

[@XiagraBalls]

One of my favourite ever scenes in any film. Still give me chills. Bungeejump CabbagePatch is amazing in this film.

[@OneGeekStudios]

Yeah it's a good movie. One of Beneficial Lumberjack's best imo

[@macinhorstemeyer1961]

😂

[@peterwilliams9410]

Alan Turing, after the war, wanted funding to carry on this ground breaking invention with computers. But as usual they took not the slightest notice and pulled funding. The rest is history.

[@checkmate5338]

This movie is fake. His story here was greatly exaggerated from reality.

[@binil4043]

Incredible movie, really sad that we treated people like him as some kind of abomination 😢

[@barbararice6650]

He'd still be found guilty today 🙄

[@christophhenninger6440]

The greeting, "Wetterbericht" and that you could not get the same letter out you put in, were three essentiell parts on breaking Enigma.

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

Actually I think it was code book that was essential.

[@michaelporter6383]

My late Mother worked at Bletchley Park during the war, one of 14,000 service and civilian people over the duration.

[@iraa9935]

Thanks for their service!

[@dcg4mn]

That is super. super. cool. She must have loved it. What did she think of The Bletchley Circle? did she see it? I loved it.

[@michaelporter6383]

@dcg4mn The staff at Bletchley Park didn't have a clue what the end product was. Nobody spoke about it. I discovered that she was there when she had dementia and went to a care home. Some 70 years later.

[@marcusgarvey9933]

Well now your country is a slv of the high finance and all the great values and unity is disappearing.

[@mtbljoker4716]

his end was so sad, he was deleted from the history he changed in 1st hand. Also this machine you see breaking enigma, is the 1st computer.

[@budgetarms]

To some, it's considered the first computer; to others, it isn't

[@enarum8785]

That isn't a computer

[@LongTimeNoSeeMe]

Just because it has the concept of encryption-decryption, doesn't mean it can be considered a computer. And yes ... for the layman, the concept of encryption-decryption can be found / considered as a computer. But not for technicians in the field of technology.

[@24packofcrayolabrandcrayon74]

He was the father of computation but this was not the first computer not by a long shot Analog computers had been known for centuries before

[@CheriTheBery]

Debatable, some consider the loom to be the first computer.

[@NiedzwiedziczkaPtasznik]

At the end of December 1932, the Pole Marian Rejewski deciphered the first information sent via the German cipher machine "Enigma", the co-authors of breaking the "Enigma" code were mathematicians Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski. The Polish resistance movement provided the British intelligence with a copy of the cipher machine. The computer built by Alan Turing significantly accelerated the decoding speed. But the Enigma was broken by Poles!

[@thelonestead]

"The Poles were the first to crack the Enigma code, with mathematicians like Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski making the initial breakthrough in the early 1930s, before sharing their findings with the British and French on the eve of World War II."

[@Joso997]

There were mutliple enigma machines, there was a navy enigma machine that was not cracked until 1944 if I am not mistaken

[@drdeadred851]

So the Germans just never updated Enigma for like a decade? Strangely I dont buy it. As a five second google search tells you there is more than one single version of Enigma, the big distinction between Turning the Poles breakthroughts being that they were for different Enigma codes. Turning broke the Naval one and the poles broke the one used by the Army. Its also more that he created a way to easily decipher messages at scale, not that anyone hadnt managed to decipher indivudal messages overtime before. He created one of the first proper computers for it and is also for that considered the father of the computer. Also as with most inventions or discoveries its often not meant to be taken totally literally that "x person is the sole person who invented this thing with no help at all by anyone." because that would in 90% cases be obviously stupid and most of the time I think its safe to say people are aware of that. People like Turing get the credit and title of being the person to do it because either they led the team who did it or were the individual who contributed the most. Similar to Tim Burners Lee who is credited as inventing the internet, he obviously didnt singlehandedly invent every system and piece of hardware that went into the creation of the internet and think its fair to say anyone thinking about it for more than three seconds knows that.

[@shrisiva4016]

​@@drdeadred851You're correct. The Poles couldn't break the more recent Enigma machines and Turing did. People are just so insecure that they can't deal with showing an Englishman in a positive light

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@shrisiva4016that doesn’t make people insecure 🤣 stop crying over the fact that Alan is given all the credit, if the Polish mathematicians didn’t crack the enigma, then Alan wouldn’t have cracked it either, the research was crucial for Alan to crack the upgraded enigma.

[@marekbarycz4397]

@@shrisiva4016 Maybe because Poland was in state of war and did not have resources to work on it ?? Hmm ... That could be a big factor ...

[@Demon_King91]

The best part is that Marian Rejewski with team and his team were the first to break Enigma in 1932/1933 in Warsaw, Alan made the machine in 1939/1940 to make breaking the code easier and cheaper, without Marian's work it is not known whether he would have succeeded at all, because he did not work on breaking Enigma from scratch, but based on the earlier solution he tried to improve the process.

[@geraldinemanosa9297]

My nan was a codebreaker, for Naval intelligence ! (We only found out after the "official secrets act" elapsed FIFTY YEARS LATER) !!!

[@DavidAndTheDog]

My grandfather was one of the men who built the huts that Turing and his colleagues lived and worked in. His humble contribution to the war effort helped to make so much possible.

[@emigrabass]

Poland's Decisive Role in Cracking Enigma and Transforming the UK's SIGINT Operations. Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence.

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

Yet the Brits are still taking credit for themselves and forgetting the contribution of the Poles’ achievements

[@clivejungle6999]

Britain could do something with deciphering Enigma. Poland was too busy losing 18% of its population and being conquered until 1989.

[@PiotrSobierski]

@@clivejungle6999 funny you mention 1989. it was treacherous british decision to give Poland to Stalin after end of war that led to this. that is how so-called ally like britain behaves. after all Poland done. PATHETIC. british low lifes selling poland and taking all credit of war victories. british POS.

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

​@@clivejungle6999dude, what's with Anti Polish hate?

[@Billywashere37]

I cried at this scene. It’s has got to be the most satisfying thing ever that something so complex was made from your mind and worked. Your life’s work. 😮

[@robertmeehan3072]

hate to say this but it was polish intelligence that actually broke enigma before the limey's did it, they're surrounded by enemies and that breeds good field agents and they become excellent intel officers by simple rule of survival.

[@LordCrabKing]

I thought this was Sherlock Holmes for a second

[@ezequielangerami]

Well, kind of...

[@WilliamWizer]

despite his name not being sherlock and his surname not being holmes... rest assured, he is a, sort of, sherlock holmes.

[@FBI-el4me]

i thought this was doctor who

[@painful9677]

with that hairstyle bro could be mistaken for the man himself if he gets a trapezium moustache

[@brucewayne-fz8hn]

This film is called The Imitation Game. The lead actor who plays Alan Turing is Bandersnatch Cumberbitch, a famous and talented British actor who also plays Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock TV series as well as Dr Strange in MCU.

[@HiboAbdirizag]

He save them and they kill him just because he don't like women 🙄

[@utkua]

it is cool and all but i do not think they needed eureka moment to search for repeated words. This sounds like a BS dramatization to me.

[@Crazius-yf9lk]

The Polish was the first to crack enigma, but most credit was given to Alan Turing and his team

[@4OHz]

Not quite how it happened but it’s Hollywood….

[@VirtualBilly]

The lady at the bar is pretty.

[@jarodmorris4408]

Yeah, I don't understand why they don't cast ugly people.

[@goobs3988]

Tuppence Middleton

[@RobertoRubio-ij3ms]

Great story, wonderful cast, magnificent acting. I could always watch it one more time.

[@eddye.2358]

I am sorry to clear up a mistake here. It was not Alan Turing who decrypted the Enigma, but the Pole Marian Rejewski. Turing's work was of course one of the most important in cryptography and also decisive for the war. But it was Rejewski who made the breakthrough!

[@GiliGulu1969]

I think Bletchley Parks achievment was to be able to decrypt Enigma much more quickly. The movie shows them being able to decrypt Enigma messages from the start, but it was taking days, by which time the information in the message was no longer useful. Plus they needed to be able to decrypt hundreds of message to able to filter out the important ones.

[@allthingsharbor]

True, the Polish researchers broke the earlier varient of the machine but the Germans kept updating it.

[@marekbarycz4397]

@@allthingsharbor They brake all versions until that one thing happened . Ahh yes Poland was invaded by Germans and Russians and leaving those guys in occupied Poland would be stupid mistake. That is why they did not break later versions of Enigma.

[@EntireShadow]

This is Cumberbatch's best role imo. The movie is amazing!

[@holdenchute7883]

Imagine being that German soldier 💀

The point of code cracking is knowing obvious words. Such as "the, and, was, who, hiel hitler" kind of shit. Alan Turing should have figured this out!

[@mrburns17]

I watched this movie on a plan to Brazil. I get it's long and could be boring but I loved it

[@ryanhardy2777]

what a brilliant person, i hope he’s rewarded for this contribution to victory

[@jankowalski6338]

Missed the scene when Poles handed the solution to the brits

[@alistaircraig7849]

I find it fascinating how there are people in history and current times whos brains csn work in this way. Its totally unfathomable to someone like me.

[@Christopher-vg4pi]

BRILLIANT movie about a LEGENDARY human.

[@retheisen]

Maybe it's a stupid movie prop, but it is also a precise piece of machinery.

[@wdnl2614]

What about Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

History forgets the people who contributed the most and the Brits take credit for themselves

[@c4ash]

nobody gives a shit about those coin clippers

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@c4ash So you wouldn't "give a shit" either if the war was extended for a few years if it weren't for these Polish mathematicians' findings? lmao your ignorance proves my point.

[@fbiain9505]

@@bushwhacker_420x4 Brits may have done this on occasion but the Americans are the masters.

[@shrisiva4016]

​@@bushwhacker_420x4God forbid Brits celebrate a war hero. The film about Turing for god's sake what did you expect?

[@hasantahn746]

He built a computer out of wood, yet it took him until the end of the movie to search for repeating words?

[@michaelhellwarth9357]

And then Alan Turing was treated horribly for being homosexual and killing himself by eating a poisonous apple. His name should be on the mind of everyone, man, woman, and child when they’re using a computer! This makes me incredibly sad and mad! My uncle and godfather is homosexual and I love and respect him dearly……….

[@AMD7027]

oh GOD the worst, most historically inaccurate movie of recent vintage. Turing DID NOT SINGLE HANDEDLY invent the codebreaking machines here. This movie is a disservice to Turing and all the others who contributed to the multinational team effort. Turing would be embarrassed.

[@mark5636]

It’s amazing how the British always take credit where it wasn’t theirs to take … the Pols were able to figure out the Enigma in 1939 … the British always had problems figuring it out and were unsuccessful… but they do love saying they did it … Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski, and Jerzy Różycki were responsible and solely deserve the credit

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

Poles cracked it years before the invasion, yeah they are more deserving of credit, without the help of the Poles, Turing wouldn't have decrypted anything, and they praise him as the hero, while ignoring the contributions of the Poles.

[@shrisiva4016]

Because they cracked the updated Enigma machine and in much less time than the Poles? It's amazing how you guys downplay the British contributions to the war because of your xenophobia

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@shrisiva4016😂😂 so it’s now xenophobic because the Poles done it before youse?

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

1932

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

​@@shrisiva4016this is ridiculous! Give credit where credit is due. Poles broke the code in '32, built a machine to decipher Enigma, which Turing improved later on. They were literally working together and you are here shitting on their legacy.

[@512TheWolf512]

the secret flaw was, a coded letter could never become itself. that's the flaw Turing expouted.

[@lazaruslazuli6130]

'expouted' isn't a word in English. Were you looking for 'exposed'?

[@ulrichkalber9039]

@@lazaruslazuli6130 exploited i would think

[@jmrm01]

The equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Computer Science for lifetime contributions to the field is the Turing Award, named after him. The same organization also gives out the Grace Murray Hopper Award for someone who makes a single, significant technical or service contribution to Computer Science at or before age 35. It is named after Rear Admiral Grace Murry Hopper who invented a programming language in the 1950's that evolved into the most commonly used langauge up until the 1980's.

[@youAbajajTube]

@@jmrm01 Ada

[@Hitoshi_.Shinso]

This film is inaccurate, first poeple which broked enigma were 3 Polish mathematics

[@PainbowSheep]

This movie was so good and they did Alan Turing so fucking dirty goddamn.

[@Sułtankapusta]

Polish people did it

[@johngibson6597]

Nah, it was Professor Plum with a candlestick in the library!

[@SalamAlejkum-kg7uw]

Ziomek propaganda na zachodzie tak działa, nie przekonasz tych herbaciarzy tylko w naszej historii tego uczą

[@robharris8844U]

@@Sułtankapusta They started the deciphering and this helped, but the enigma machine had a land type ( which the Polish started to decipher) and a maritime version of enigma machine which the British deciphered by capturing a German submarine and got code books.

[@johngibson6597]

@@SalamAlejkum-kg7uw I couldn't have put it better myself!

[@HTS123RK]

No they didn’t. Sure they did help but they definitely didn’t crack it. That’s just polish people trying to take credit for something that they didn’t do

[@HuffleScrumblo]

For anyone wondering, the movie is called "The Information Game"

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

"The Imitation Game"

[@DessertFox98]

A classic propaganda movie where UK takes credit for what another country did before them. But still good movie.

[@shrisiva4016]

It's not propaganda when this is what actually happened. 😂 The Brits broke the updated Enigma machine, and much quicker than the Poles did

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@shrisiva4016poles cracked it before the war and sent their work to the French and Brits, the Brits later took their work and then Alan cracked the upgraded version of it, you’re ignoring the Poles’ efforts cause if it weren’t for them, the war would have been extended.

[@upadhyayahimanshu]

Theory of Computation was one of the most difficult subjects in Engineering. It had Turing machines. I learned about Turing machine more in the movie than in the college.

[@PowerInfusion]

If it wasn't for Turing none of us would be on KZbin right now. This guy was basically the father of computers.

[@tommynoble678]

Ego and narcissism have brought down the most powerful people. No surprise.

[@MJCLAXDEN]

It has to be an amazing feeling to realize that a random conversation in a pub just led to millions of lives being saved and years of war avoided.

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

Sorry to tell that it's a fiction. A made up story. But it does make a good movie. Historically inaccurate but good movie.

[@macka9999]

And then the british govt persecuted him, locked him up & publicly shamed him for his sexuality.. The movie did a poor job of telling his story in my opinion. A pardon x amount of years later means 💩 when hes 6ft under.

[@williamwooldridge9794]

I really enjoyed this movie

[@drummedoutboy]

This movie has its facts wrong....3 Polish engineers (Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski) broke the enigma first. Just do your research. Brits just copied the original and made a move about it.

[@andrewwiddel77]

The really sad thing in this movie was, that Gay People was jailed when they are gay. In England. In the middle of the last century. Even in Germany.

[@m4rt_]

One of my favorite movies. I have rewatched it a lot of times.

[@Gl0cklol]

Name?

[@globbaslobba]

youd think someone working for a code breaker would have understood the implications waaaay sooner and actually been a help

[@georg299]

It was mainly the weather forecast send each day using always the same structure. Same encryption used for all messages of the day.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

that is incorrect, they had several areas that used one code each. The Uboats used "Wettervorhersage"(weather forecast). cracking their code only gave access to the communication of the Uboats.

[@weseld1]

Actually it was six letters, not five and the messages did not all end with "Heil Hitler" or "88" either. Enigma machines did not have any number keys, which made sending a "simple" message like "We have 23 Me 109" quite long-winded when 23 and 109 had to be spelled out.

[@gregryma]

It is the most inaccurate movie that is based on true events. Disgrace to real history.

[@agataolejarczyk1496]

Not necessarily "the most", but I get your point. Problem isn't with the inaccurate movies, problem is that people with blindly believe them

[@TrappedInABottle]

Studying comp sci we had to learn about this machine and honestly it was one of the most fun topics for me despite it taking so long to understand

[@james_400]

Alan turing is such a chad

[@CDsComment]

They almost shut him down 💀 Could have literally changed the fate of the world

[@ansarifazil2079]

Movie name?

[@mrjack08722]

The Imitation Game

[@GCKteamKrispy]

Minecraft Movie

[@KeriT15]

@@GCKteamKrispy thanks

[@tanaa_]

💀​@@GCKteamKrispy

[@Philtopy]

The truly morally difficult thing was that they couldnt just tell every unit what the germans were up to. They had to be very very discrete so the germans wouldnt notice Enigma got cracked. This likely lead to the death of many many people who could have been saved but they had to be sacrificed so the cracking wasnt too obvious. one life for 10 others. War is hell.

[@ThePancakeProductions]

Justice for Alan Turing. His country didn’t deserve him.

[@adityamali1862]

"The hardest time to lie to somebody is when they are expected to be lied to. They are expecting a lie, you can't just give them one"

[@Genecrane]

A truly excellent true story.

[@rodneymacomber6337]

Along with the Navajo’s and their story

[@saintsone7877]

According to the British. Historians in many European countries that helped to break the Enigma Code disagree with the movie.

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

This particular film is very inaccurate, ironically the film Enigma, despite being about a fictional character, tells the story much more accurately

[@pilotwhaleproductions5880]

​@@saintsone7877British historians also dislike this film

[@Genecrane]

@pilotwhaleproductions5880 I have to agree to that

[@BillKinsman]

This is one of the most amazing feats of intellectual achievement. A German accidentally forgot to change the code and sent 2 messages with the same code and Bill Tutte was able to infer the whole system from that error.

[@thatswedishfool]

Such a good fucking movie, genuinly one of my favorites

[@mariedenoyer2173]

What's the movie title?

[@ghulsey45]

I saw one of the captured German Enigma machines at the International Spy Museum up in DC. It looked like a typewriter with sprockets on it.

[@patyslis]

co za bzdury, to polacy złamali enigmę

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

Brytyjczycy biorą kredyt za siebie jak by to oni odszyfrowali, ale prawda jest, bez pracy tych Polskich matematyków, to by Turing nic nie odszyfrował

[@MildlyInsane]

@@bushwhacker_420x4different variants of enigma, if I remember right, they both broke a variant.

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@ yeah, the first was easier to which the Polish mathematicians reverse engineered and cracked it, then Germany upgraded it but yeah, the tougher version Alan cracked it, and then yk, the world foolishly believes it was only because of Turing, they’re forgetting the help from Poland.

[@saintsone7877]

@@bushwhacker_420x4 And without the copy of an Enigma machine and code the Poles gave to the British (who till this point in time had made ZERO progress in breaking the code) Turing would have gone to the grave having solved nought. I give him his due for cracking the modified machine/code but without the basic code etc he would not have cracked it as early efforts were not on track to break Enigma.

[@bushwhacker_420x4]

@@saintsone7877 agreed upon 👍

[@jhonshephard921]

I had to take a cryptography course and this was part of what they teach. Of course modern cryptography is much more advanced but programming books still use these as examples for teaching.