Social networks, 24-hour news, consumer journalism and the ability to share everything with everyone (and anything with anyone), has created an insatiable desire for gossip and scandal. Throughout the Leveson enquiry we've witnessed countless hidden secrets unearthed and pored over by lawyers, media and the public. In short, nothing is really secret any more. Alas, it wasn't always thus.
During the Second World War, the manor at Bletchley Park -- once a paragon of British architectural eccentricity (to put it kindly) -- was home to not only the greatest collective secret in the history of warfare, but the greatest example of secrecy being used as an undefeatable weapon.
By: Chris Owen, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/18/turing-the-lost-art-of-secrecy
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