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		protomyth on Jan 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The piece of paper that fooled Hitler `All crypto systems fail when faced with human operators!` Also doesn't help if you don't destroy your crypto books / equipment when boarded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-505

oiuytghyujki on Jan 27, 2011 [–]

It's an interesting bit of military psychology that while every side in WWII broke their enemy's codes - all of them believed all their own codes to be unbreakable!

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