TechNation podcast
OK you amateurs.. here's a code-breaker operative from WW-I through WW-2, having cut her teeth on rum-runners' pirate radio stations for the USCG (on to drug-versions) --> thence to early Enigma--BY HAND--before Bletchley Park had built itself.. We'd never have heard of her had not the author stumbled onto the Name and pursued matters solo, finally to National Archives (where stuff in identical-sized boxes could languish forever (as in The Ark of the Covenant)). He got lucky, while being persistent.
(Anyone else heard of her, earlier?)
More male hubris? that we're hearing of this via the random chance of curiosity of one man, after ... ... all these years.
OK you amateurs.. here's a code-breaker operative from WW-I through WW-2, having cut her teeth on rum-runners' pirate radio stations for the USCG (on to drug-versions) --> thence to early Enigma--BY HAND--before Bletchley Park had built itself.. We'd never have heard of her had not the author stumbled onto the Name and pursued matters solo, finally to National Archives (where stuff in identical-sized boxes could languish forever (as in The Ark of the Covenant)). He got lucky, while being persistent.
(Anyone else heard of her, earlier?)
More male hubris? that we're hearing of this via the random chance of curiosity of one man, after ... ... all these years.
Moira speaks with journalist Jason Fagone talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.”