I just noticed a series of nine rare interviews were posted in June 2023 by the Polish Embassy in London. Each has only a couple hundred views on YouTube despite significance of the subject. They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII … Continue reading Polish Embassy Interviews 1st Person to Crack Enigma: Marian Rejewski
A management professor at WSB University in Bydgoszcz, Poland has published an impressive biography of the amazing codebreaker Marian Rejewski. We are very fortunate since Rejewski largely has been completely ignored by Americans and British who have fixated and over-sensationalized another man (Alan Turing). The First Enigma Codebreaker: Marian Rejewski Who Passed the Baton to … Continue reading 2023 Biography of Marian Rejewski: “The First Enigma Codebreaker”
Many people have been asking me for security awareness films this month. Here are two films that discuss how and why the Polish mathematicians were the first to crack the German Enigma, which thankfully seems no longer to be a controversial point. Sekret Enigmy (Enigma Secret) (1979) Detailed explanation of Enigma cracking
Richard Dawkins just failed a simple intelligence test. His latest post, called “When Dawkins met Claude: Could this AI be conscious?” is a very disappointing read, to say the least. I have some thoughts. He built a career on the principle that a mechanism matters more than its appearance. Are genes selfish? Do memes want … Continue reading Conscious AI? Dawkins Falls for a Turk Dressed Up as Claudia