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It’s important not to fall into the trap of hindsight. At the time, they very well thought it was important, but it of course seems silly once you hear the full

It’s important not to fall into the trap of hindsight. At the time, they very well thought it was important, but it of course seems silly once you hear the full story.

bell-cot 4y ago
Note my edit, above. If they suspected it really was important, then they should have passed it up to the code-breakers ASAP.
- bhelkey 4y ago
  My reading was that the FBI ended up with a key not an encrypted message.
- tiagod 4y ago
  It was probably just a random key, one-time-pad type. No way of figuring out much out of a typewritten random number, especially if it was truly random (generated with dice, for example)
halJordan 4y ago
This is an important lesson I think. Much of the assumed professionalism we have now is built on the lessons these people learned from serious introspection of their own actions.