You’ve heard of Alan Turing. But what about Elizabeth Friedman?
Like me, she ended up in a technical profession from an arts background – but her job was breaking codes.
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
This Woman Saved the Americas From the Nazis. Pioneering codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman, a poet and mother of two, smashed spy rings by solving secret messages. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker-nazi-spy-fagone/
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
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