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So... can we call it the "Techs-Mansion"?
By Joe Skrebels
Bletchley Park, the British World War II codebreaking HQ made famous after its staff cracked the Nazi Enigma Code, is to be turned into a boarding school for teenagers "gifted and talented" in the realm of cyber defence.
Planned by Qufaro - a not-for-profit cybersecurity group - and due to open in 2018, the training college would be free to attend, and require no specific grades to enter, instead setting aptitude tests and favouring those with proven exceptional skills.
After a £5 million restoration, the school will take in around 500 16-19 year olds, with 40% of teaching focusing specifically on cybersecurity - an area the UK is said to be lacking a skilled workforce in.
"There is some real talent out there, people with extraordinary capabilities in this area," explained Qufaro chair, Alastair MacWilson to CNN, "and it"s usually youngsters that are good at gaming theory and hacking systems."
Bletchley Park, and the work performed inside it, was was such a closely-guarded secret that its role in helping end WWII only became known decades after the end of the conflict.
Much of The Imitation Game, the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring biopic of codebreaker Alan Turing, was set at Bletchley. Turing even created one of the world"s first computers, Colossus, on the premises.
Joe Skrebels is IGN"s UK News Editor, and he thinks a good bit of Friday fun is Googling "Bletchley Park". Follow him on Twitter.
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