discuss PBS Codebreaker

The fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison in the 1920s and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII.

Prior to the meeting, please watch Codebreaker. For more info, see https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ .

We'll discuss what we thought about it and what it has to teach us.