#CodeBreakers

Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-03-18

#dei #Racism #trump #politics #codebreakers #navajo #alt #whitesupremacy
Heather Cox Richardson removal of poc amd women from Arlington website , white supremacy

Axios found that web pages associated with the Department of Defense have also put DEI labels on now-missing pages that honored prominent Black veterans. Similarly missing is information about women who served in the military, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War Il. A profile of Army Major General Charles Rogers, who received the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietham, was similarly changed, but the Defense Department replaced the missing page and removed “dei” from the URL today after a public outcry.

Two days ago, media outlets noted that the Arlington National Cemetery website had deleted content about Black, female, and Hispanic veterans.

The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good.
Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-03-18

#dei #Racism #trump #politics #codebreakers #navajo #alt #firstnation
Heather Cox Richardson Navajo Code Breakers,Medalofhonor #arlington

From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. The Code Talkers were Indigenous Americans who used codes based in their native languages to transmit messages that the Axis Powers never cracked. The Army recognized the ability of tribal members to send coded language in World War | and realized the codes could not be easily interpreted in part because many Indigenous languages had never been written down.The Army expanded the use of Code Talkers in World War I, using members of 34 different tribes in the program. Indigenous Americans always enlisted in the military in higher proportions than any other demographic group—in World War Il, more than a third of able-bodied Indigenous men between 19 and 50 joined the service—and the participation of the Code Talkers was key to the invasion of lwo Jima, for example, when they sent more than 800 messages without error.

“"Were it not for the Navajos,” Major Howard Connor said, “the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.” Today, Erin Alberty of Axios reported that at least ten articles about the Code Talkers have disappedred from U.S. military websites. Broken URLs are now labeled “DEI,"” an abbreviation for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”

Here is a link to the Audible version of Betty Webb’s book, “No More Secrets: My Part in #Codebreaking at #BletchleyPark and the Pentagon.” #CodeBreakers

audible.com/pd/B0C43LKLJJ?sour

From the Bletchley Park FB page: “Look out for Betty Webb, a Bletchley Park Veteran, on the #RemembranceSunday edition of Love Your Weekend. Betty will be discussing some memories of her time here. Tune in from 9.30 on Sunday 10 November on ITV1, STV and ITVX. You can find out more about Betty on our Roll of Honour: bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-h
#BletchleyPark #VeteranStories #LoveYourWeekend#WWII #Codebreakers #MilitaryHistory #MilitaryIntelligence

2024-08-21

The British government has placed an export ban on a small collection of unpublished papers belonging to Alan Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist famous for helping the Allies decode Nazi communications during World War II.

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

@SmithsonianMag #code #codebreakers #AlanTuring

The British government has placed an export ban on a small collection of unpublished papers belonging to Alan Turing
2024-04-14

👾🔥 Throwing it back to last week's epic CTF showdown at the Southeast Cybersecurity Summit, brought to you by #DC205 and SecureMy.Dev's Ryan Black and sponsored by Layer 3 Communications, part of MGT! Hackers assembled, codes were cracked, and legends were made. 🌐🏆 Dive into our gallery to relive the highlights! 📸

First place goes to Chris Ruggieri!

The CTF is live online for those who want to give it a shot! scores.securemy.dev/

#DEFCON205 #CyberSec2023 #Layer3 #CaptureTheFlag #HackersUnite #InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Hacking #CTFCompetition #DEFCON #NetworkSecurity #DigitalDefense #TechEvents #CodeBreakers #SecurityExperts #ThreatHunters #CyberWarriors #GeekOut #Programming #CyberChallenge #BirminghamAL #MagicCityTech #BhamEvents #BhamTech #AlabamaCyber #BhamNow #ThisIsBham #InnovateBirmingham #hacktheplanet

2024-04-09

#puzzles #bletchleypark #crossword #ww2 #intelligence #codebreakers #codebreaking #telegraph #telegraphcrossword #dailytelegraph The infamous Bletchley Park “recruitment” crossword from WW2. Solve it within 12 minutes, and you could potentially have been working for British intelligence!
Good luck, your country’s counting on you, and no Googling the answers…

The Telegraph crossword published in WW2, to get smart people into Bletchley Park!
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&DᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏJSharp1436@mstdn.social
2024-02-05

🔎 Secret, coded letters penned by Mary Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned in #England by her cousin #QueenElizabeth_I have been uncovered by a multidisciplinary team of international #codebreakers

The contents of the letters were believed for centuries to have been lost

medievalists.net/2024/02/codeb #Encryption #Cryptography #News

SubtleBlade ⚔️SubtleBlade@mastodon.scot
2023-10-07
We Are Brisbane / ???WeAreBrisbane@bne.social
2023-08-04

Nice summary of 15 fantastic books set in #Brisbane

I've been meaning to read Alli Sinclair's - The #Codebreakers for a while.

" (sic) one for the historical #fiction lovers, this time set in Brisbane during WWII, where a group of women form a close bond as codebreakers for Australia’s top-secret Central Bureau. According to the description, The Codebreakers is “a compelling story about tenacity and friendship”."

Drop suggestions for other reads here #wearebrisbane

secretbrisbane.co/books-set-in

Book cover of Alli Sinclair's- The Codebreakers
2023-04-19
@KingpinEd@twitter.com:
"He made everybody feel more alive"
Stuart Milner-Barry on Hugh Alexander (1909-1974), born on this day. @bletchleypark #codebreakers ow.ly/WxMb0
Alexander v Milner-Barry, 1953
2023-02-21
Matt WillemsenNonog@fedibird.com
2023-02-13

Mary, Queen of Scots' cryptic prison letters finally deciphered - International codebreakers have cracked the code of Mary, Queen of Scots' cryptic letters. Penned between 1578 and 1584 with a "sophisticated cipher system" that involved a mix of letters and symbols, the letters were written to and from the former Queen of Scotland (also known as Mary Stuart) while she was imprisoned by her cousin, Elizabeth I of England
livescience.com/mary-queen-of-
#codebreakers #MaryQueenOfScots #cipher

2023-02-10

3 amateur codebreakers set out to decrypt old letters. They uncovered royal history...
We can now learn more about one of the most controversial monarchs in European history, thanks to a trio of amateur cryptologists who unknowingly stumbled upon a treasure trove of long-lost letters by Mary, Queen of Scots and worked painstakingly to crack their code.
#codebreakers
npr.org/2023/02/10/1155701113/

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