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The Virgin Enigma Fan Vs. The Chad Cryptanalyst

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The Virgin Enigma Fan Vs. The Chad Cryptanalyst

When you're just excited about the Enigma machine vs. when you're Alan Turing who casually broke the "unbreakable" Nazi code and basically invented computer science while he was at it. The rest of us are still trying to remember our email passwords. Some people get excited about cryptography; Turing revolutionized it before breakfast.

The Turing Paradox

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The Turing Paradox

The meme playfully references the Turing machine and Alan Turing's groundbreaking work in cryptography during WWII. The British government's reaction to Turing's homosexuality (he was "queer coded") after the war is juxtaposed with his crucial role in breaking Nazi encryption (actual "code"). The double entendre here is brilliant - Turing literally coded machines while being forced to hide his identity. Talk about ungrateful! The man saves your country by decoding enemy messages and your response is to prosecute him for his sexuality. The scientific irony is just *chef's kiss* - the father of modern computing reduced to a punchline about binary thinking in more ways than one.