One married couple was responsible for the foundations of modern code breaking, and the principles that gave the NSA a head start in cryptanalysis. Though the husband, William Friedman, is usually apportioned the lion's share of the credit, his wife Elizebeth Friedman was in every way his equal. During World War II, both worked under total secrecy, and only now are we learning about Elizebeth's critical work uncovering the secrets of Nazi spies—and cracking the codes of the notorious "Doll Lady" suspected of working for the Japanese.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/world-war-2-codebreakers-elizebeth-smith-friedman/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @04:40AM (2 children)
No mention of Alan Turing in a top code breakers of WWII article? Seems like a pretty big omission, unless my knowledge of history is wrong.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @07:30AM
I mean, the Prime Minister apologized to his estate and pardoned him; welcome to the club of the patriarchy, fags.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @10:26PM
Turing wasn't a woman, therefore his contributions to science are irrelevant. You are getting in the way of progress: we need more women in STEM and the only way to do that is propaganda like this. Or quotas... yeah, let's make a rule that 50% of important scientific discoveries have to be made, by women from now, on.