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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 01 2018, @10:09PM
This is why scientists, engineers and others doing anything useful need to learn to decide whether they want to work for a regime or not. Whether they want to fight a war or not. Just doing my job is a bad excuse. They must know and spread the word that their country (dictatorship, puppet democratic govt, whatever) is or is not doing the right thing.
When people say a nation is not responsible for the doings of its government, I say YES _they_are_responsible_ for everything their government does in their name. Be it Vietnam or Korea. The persons doing the fighting and the supplying and the engineering need to decide whether they will be fighting a war someone in an air-conditioned office wants them to fight. Humans and animals should be different beings.