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by twoodfin 4684 days ago
So you'd describe what the folks at Bletchley Park did 70 years ago as terrorism?
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LoganCale 4683 days ago
Spying on military communications during active wartime is part of the game of war and is acceptable. Spying on the general public en masse is not.
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twoodfin 4683 days ago
That's not what the comment I responded to claimed.
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antman 4683 days ago
They were not spying on people as far as I know.
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twoodfin 4683 days ago
Huh? The whole facility, and the brilliant minds working there, existed entirely to enable the successful decryption of Axis transmissions. If that's not "spying", I don't know what is.
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