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Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
Hackaday

A Look Inside A 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator

Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were ...
Epic History on MSNOpinion

How allied codebreakers cracked Germany’s deadliest secret

The Enigma machine was Nazi Germany’s most powerful weapon of secrecy. But behind closed doors, a handful of codebreakers ...

This Uncrackable Code Is Puzzling the CIA

Delve into the enigma of Kryptos, a mysterious sculpture at the heart of the CIA headquarters, challenging code-breakers for ...