CRYPTOGRAPHY
Enigma Machine: A Cryptographic Revolution in Espionage
I visited the Spy Museum in Tampere, Finland, saw an Enigma Machine, learned about the secrets of cypher machines in WWII, decoded a Morse code message, and took a spy test
American spelling (for a change)
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Dead media archeology has fascinated me for a long time. Dead media archeology describes the historical research on the forgotten and obsolete media technologies.
This helps to understand the evolution of media technologies, the use of technologies in the present, and how humanity has used and/or abused such technologies.
Every now and then I find incredible dead media artefacts when visiting museums, or when I meet someone who owns an interesting personal collection of artefacts.
A few years ago, INK, which was the publisher of the Norwegian Airlines’ in-flight magazine, N by Norwegian, sent me and photographer Emiliano Verrocchio on assignment to the Spy Museum in Tampere, Finland.
Here below is a PDF of the issue where my article, Learn to be a spy, was published (pages 19 to 21).
