COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
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Question
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Alan Turing
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Stephen Hawking
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Bill Gates
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mathematician. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government’s Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.
Detailed explanation-2: -British mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack Nazi Germany’s ‘Enigma’ code and laid the groundwork for modern computing, was pardoned on Tuesday, six decades after his conviction for homosexuality is said to have driven him to suicide.
Detailed explanation-3: -Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment with DES, a procedure commonly referred to as chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.
Detailed explanation-4: -On July 9, 1941, British cryptologists help break the secret code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front.