That not exactly helpful. John McAfee is the loony who fled the US to avoid a wrongful death lawsuit and has now fled Belize after going in hiding after his neighbor was murdered. The company that used to bear his name has been renamed Intel Security. He is unfortunately a paranoid loon.
I don’t quite see the lack of mention of Snowden in the exhibit to be a problem. The story is less than 9 months old and we don’t know all of it yet. It isn’t history, it is current affairs. It would take several years to curate a proper exhibit. We are still searching through the stuff.
I certainly can’t see Intel/McAfee being the reason behind the lack of mention of Snowden either. Sir John Scarlett, the guy in the video was former head of the SIS (aka MI6). It wouldn’t be pressure from a US company stopping him mentioning Snowden, thats pretty clear. Blaming the sponsors seems rather bad form to me.
The far larger hole in the planned history exhibition is what was done with Colossus after WWII. The frames were all broken up with great display but they were quickly replaced and used to break codes for the next thirty years. East Germany was still using the Enigma machine when the story came out in Khan’s book.
I strongly suspect that the descendants of the ULTRA machines enabled the NSA and GCHQ to break the codes of Iran, Greece and many other countries where the CIA replaced emerging democracies with vicious dictators. The 1953 coup in Iran in particular has doomed the whole region to dictatorship for two generations. Hundreds of thousands were murdered in Latin America during the Kissinger years. And none of it made any sense strategically or politically.
