http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10034884-83.html By Tom Espiner Security CNet News.com September 8, 2008 A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. The fund-raising campaign will be led by cryptography provider PGP, together with IBM and other technology firms. Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive of PGP, told ZDNet UK in a video interview that the group of companies would be making donations to repair the buildings at Bletchley Park, including the National Museum of Computing, and would be calling for other organizations to get involved. "We're calling attention (to the fact that) Bletchley is falling into disrepair, and that, probably, the world owes a debt of gratitude to that place," Dunkelberger said. Bletchley Park is famous for being the nerve center of U.K. code-breaking operations during World War II, and for being the home of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Tue Sep 09 2008 - 01:20:17 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Sep 09 2008 - 01:29:37 PDT