Cracking the code
Update: 2023-02-02
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This week, let's add a chapter to our history books because this episode of Thick & Thin is dedicated to Elizebeth Smith Friedman –– America's first female cryptanalyst. As a literal codebreaker, she busted drug smugglers and helped derail Nazi spies but never got the recognition she deserved.
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Sources:
https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/francis-bacon-shakespeare-and-secret-societies
https://allthatsinteresting.com/elizebeth-smith-friedman
https://time.com/5928583/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker/
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/mother-cryptology
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