Interesting story.
Jul. 23rd, 2008 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intersticeI only ever knew about the Enigma and Colossus stuff. This is another technological battle from WWII - the writing is rather poor even for wikipedia, which is mostly sourced from Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 (OoP everywhere; $44 here as a textbook, £8 as a "brilliant bestseller" over there) which I have of course not read.
The intersection of espionage; human psychology/guesswork and technical development is really chilling to me; in particular, the buried irony of how they got the right conclusion from the term Wotan, even though it turned out that their reasoning was not valid. But in the end, who cares and what does it matter if you are scientific about things, if you only ever do them once?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams
The intersection of espionage; human psychology/guesswork and technical development is really chilling to me; in particular, the buried irony of how they got the right conclusion from the term Wotan, even though it turned out that their reasoning was not valid. But in the end, who cares and what does it matter if you are scientific about things, if you only ever do them once?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams
