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Someone who reads your secrets faster than you can forget you wrote them.
means A person or system that decrypts coded or encrypted information without having been given the key.
from Straightforward compound of 'code' (from Latin 'codex,' a book of laws or rules, which drifted to mean a system of symbols for secrecy) and 'breaker' (one who forces something open). The word itself is a plain modern coinage, but it rode to fame on real history — the cryptanalysts of World War II, most famously at Britain's Bletchley Park, who 'broke' Axis ciphers like Enigma, giving the term its enduring aura of secrecy and genius.
- origin
- Term exploded with Bletchley Park and Enigma
- real hero
- Many top breakers were women, erased from credit
- irony
- Best codebreakers often can't keep their own secrets
- modern form
- Now mostly machine learning guessing your password