Women Were Key to Codebreaking: Over 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park were women, many of whom worked as cryptanalysts, translators, and clerks.
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January 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Women Were Key to Codebreaking: Over 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park were women, many of whom worked as cryptanalysts, translators, and clerks.
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My grandfather got hired out of grad school at MIT in World War 2 to help build codebreaking machines for the Navy 🙃
Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
My grandfather got hired out of grad school at MIT in World War 2 to help build codebreaking machines for the Navy 🙃
Jeffrey Epstein was such a crackpot. He spent years trying to find "NSA guys" and codebreaking hackers to crack the secret code of cellular communication that would unlock the link between genetics and intelligence.
February 25, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was such a crackpot. He spent years trying to find "NSA guys" and codebreaking hackers to crack the secret code of cellular communication that would unlock the link between genetics and intelligence.
This is why OPSEC is no joke. US codebreaking was more secret than the atomic bomb during WWII and shortened the war by about two years. It wasn’t until the 1970s when the US officially began to acknowledge the codebreaking. This is why Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats were so extremely dangerous.
Imagine if the Japanese high command sent this telegram to their friends and family list in 1941:
“Just confirmed with Imperial Fleet. We are GO for air raid: Pearl Harbor, 7:55am December 7.”
“Just confirmed with Imperial Fleet. We are GO for air raid: Pearl Harbor, 7:55am December 7.”
This screenshot is the smoking gun.
The Defense Secretary—on Signal—live texting classified strike times to people without the proper clearance.
Hegseth’s defense? Blame a “disgruntled employee” and bash the media. And the White House is still standing by him.
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The Defense Secretary—on Signal—live texting classified strike times to people without the proper clearance.
Hegseth’s defense? Blame a “disgruntled employee” and bash the media. And the White House is still standing by him.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is why OPSEC is no joke. US codebreaking was more secret than the atomic bomb during WWII and shortened the war by about two years. It wasn’t until the 1970s when the US officially began to acknowledge the codebreaking. This is why Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats were so extremely dangerous.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
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September 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Switch to get acclaimed eerie codebreaking game TR-49 very soon, and at a nice price
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March 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Switch to get acclaimed eerie codebreaking game TR-49 very soon, and at a nice price
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Fascinating economics job market paper by Jens Oehlen on the effects of Enigma codebreaking and how it interacted with military/intelligence strategy jensoehlen.github.io/uploads/Enig...
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Fascinating economics job market paper by Jens Oehlen on the effects of Enigma codebreaking and how it interacted with military/intelligence strategy jensoehlen.github.io/uploads/Enig...
Alan Turing Papers Found in Loft And Saved From Shredder to Fetch a Record $625,000 www.goodnewsnetwork.org/alan-turing-...
Alan Turing Papers Found in Loft And Saved From Shredder to Fetch a Record $625,000
A treasure of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing fetched $625k at auction after being found in loft and nearly shredded.
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June 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Alan Turing Papers Found in Loft And Saved From Shredder to Fetch a Record $625,000 www.goodnewsnetwork.org/alan-turing-...
November 17, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Our #PictureOfTheWeek features Cold War codebreaking specialists. This group of highly skilled Black women were recruited as cryptologists to decipher intercepted Soviet messages. Their role in Cold War intelligence operations has been largely overlooked, until now.
📸: NSA
📸: NSA
August 3, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Our #PictureOfTheWeek features Cold War codebreaking specialists. This group of highly skilled Black women were recruited as cryptologists to decipher intercepted Soviet messages. Their role in Cold War intelligence operations has been largely overlooked, until now.
📸: NSA
📸: NSA
She cracked Nazi codes with a pencil and paper and helped save more than 8,000 lives.
Elizebeth Smith Friedman's codebreaking exposed Nazi spy networks during World War Il. Intelligence she decoded helped the RMS Queen Mary evade a U-boat attack with 8,000+ people aboard.
#SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Elizebeth Smith Friedman's codebreaking exposed Nazi spy networks during World War Il. Intelligence she decoded helped the RMS Queen Mary evade a U-boat attack with 8,000+ people aboard.
#SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
September 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
She cracked Nazi codes with a pencil and paper and helped save more than 8,000 lives.
Elizebeth Smith Friedman's codebreaking exposed Nazi spy networks during World War Il. Intelligence she decoded helped the RMS Queen Mary evade a U-boat attack with 8,000+ people aboard.
#SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Elizebeth Smith Friedman's codebreaking exposed Nazi spy networks during World War Il. Intelligence she decoded helped the RMS Queen Mary evade a U-boat attack with 8,000+ people aboard.
#SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
“Radio history. Gnosticism. Elizabethan magic. WW2 codebreaking…
Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…”
Broken Veil II is out now.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…”
Broken Veil II is out now.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
June 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM
“Radio history. Gnosticism. Elizabethan magic. WW2 codebreaking…
Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…”
Broken Veil II is out now.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…”
Broken Veil II is out now.
Patreon.com/brokenveil
The 103-year-old Pole who once helped Britain crack #Nazi codes
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking
#Europe #Germany #History #People #Poland #UK
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking
#Europe #Germany #History #People #Poland #UK
Beyond Enigma: The wartime Polish codebreakers history forgot
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking.
tvpworld.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I don't know if I'd go that far personally - the codebreaking that allowed Nimitz et al. to have assets in place without the Japanese knowing it played a significant role - but I agree that the way it played out tactically was almost completely a series of absolute dumb-luck events.
September 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I don't know if I'd go that far personally - the codebreaking that allowed Nimitz et al. to have assets in place without the Japanese knowing it played a significant role - but I agree that the way it played out tactically was almost completely a series of absolute dumb-luck events.
Also I would have been really good at pen-and-paper codebreaking.
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Also I would have been really good at pen-and-paper codebreaking.
a guy invested in selling something, AI “codebreaking”, extremely nebulous leaps of logic between the two cases baby we got it all down here at the LAT
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
a guy invested in selling something, AI “codebreaking”, extremely nebulous leaps of logic between the two cases baby we got it all down here at the LAT
The 103-year-old Pole who once helped Britain crack #Nazi codes
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking
#Europe #Germany #History #People #Poland #UK
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking
#Europe #Germany #History #People #Poland #UK
Beyond Enigma: The wartime Polish codebreakers history forgot
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking.
tvpworld.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
anyway,
step 1) misunderstand the concept of codebreaking
step 2) get rid of that gay guy, sub in a straight couple
step 3) ????
step 4) LITERATURE
step 1) misunderstand the concept of codebreaking
step 2) get rid of that gay guy, sub in a straight couple
step 3) ????
step 4) LITERATURE
January 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
anyway,
step 1) misunderstand the concept of codebreaking
step 2) get rid of that gay guy, sub in a straight couple
step 3) ????
step 4) LITERATURE
step 1) misunderstand the concept of codebreaking
step 2) get rid of that gay guy, sub in a straight couple
step 3) ????
step 4) LITERATURE
Join TVP World’s Stanisław Kaleta in his Special Report: “Poland’s Hidden Wartime Codebreakers.”⤵
Beyond Enigma: The wartime Polish codebreakers history forgot
Ferdynand ‘Fred’ Vanke offers a rare glimpse into the secret Polish network behind Britain’s wartime codebreaking.
tvpworld.com
September 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Join TVP World’s Stanisław Kaleta in his Special Report: “Poland’s Hidden Wartime Codebreakers.”⤵
My lovely husband, doing his thing. ❤️ youtu.be/s9Wxpt2aFi4?...
Discover Bletchley Park’s WWII Codebreaking Legacy with Anne Diamond
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August 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My lovely husband, doing his thing. ❤️ youtu.be/s9Wxpt2aFi4?...
They tend to leave that bit out of all the super-serious, epic soundtrack documentaries and dramas about WW2 Codebreaking.
February 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They tend to leave that bit out of all the super-serious, epic soundtrack documentaries and dramas about WW2 Codebreaking.
I once repaired a WW2 codebreaking machine using only a pair of tweezers.
July 22, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I once repaired a WW2 codebreaking machine using only a pair of tweezers.
For more than four decades, former colleagues fought for proper recognition of the unsung codebreaking hero of Midway. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/june/justice-joe-rochefort
Justice for Joe Rochefort
For more than four decades, former colleagues fought for proper recognition of the unsung codebreaking hero of Midway.
www.usni.org
June 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
For more than four decades, former colleagues fought for proper recognition of the unsung codebreaking hero of Midway. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2026/june/justice-joe-rochefort