Well, what can I say about “The Imitation Game”. A decent film, but tough for IT folks to watch.
Below are spoilers.
The film suggests that Turing worked on creating the machine alone. The rest of his team had little idea how this thing worked, and didn’t really believe it could solve the problem. It’s like they found an alien computer and were trying to use it. I can understand skepticism from the military leadership, but his own engineers!
How does an interest in crosswords relate to narrowing down options for brute-forcing? In our backwoods, every other grandma solves crosswords or scanwords better than a Moscow engineer) Or is it customary in England to solve crosswords by brute force?
It’s unclear why they abandoned manual decryption as soon as midnight struck and the Germans changed the password. It seems that the algorithm for narrowing down options was unformalized, i.e., depended on the size and presumed content of the message and sometimes it led to finding the key.
Unclear how, after the “idea” in the bar, he didn’t have to redo the machine. If there was initially no assumption about lines repeating in all reports, why was this already implemented in the “hardware”?
And the machine itself looks very “glossy”. Those who have made prototypes will understand me)
Sherlock’s ears are constantly visible in Benedict Cumberbatch) But, it seems, this is now his lot for all subsequent films)
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