The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry For What We Did To Turing.”
Graham-Cumming, remember, is a computer scientist, specializing in parts of the Internet that require massive scale. So he knew how to deal with torrents of information. In this case, he wrote code to analyze the new signatures. His program took each name and tested it against Wikipedia to see if the signer might be prominent (not everybody gets a Wiki entry) and a UK resident. If so, the program automatically sent Graham-Cumming an email. From there he would exploit the connection personally.