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How hard can it be? – Part 3: The answer was somebody else's

7 August 2026
Tags: Enigma Bletchley Park encryption scientific rigour critical thinking

The message was solved in 1944, solved again in 1998, and I solved it in 2026 by writing to the people who already had.

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How hard can it be? – Part 2: The crib that would not stop

31 July 2026
Tags: enigma Bletchley Park encryption scientific rigour critical thinking

A fragment of known German, a machine that can never encipher a letter as itself and a Bombe simulator.

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How hard can it be? – Part 1: I thought breaking Enigma would be easy

24 July 2026
Tags: Enigma Bletchley Park encryption scientific rigour critical thinking

I had a modern laptop and eighty years of progress. Surely breaking one Enigma message would be easy.

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Impressive is not the same as useful

17 June 2026
Tags: AI critique AI & digital tools research & publishing academic life scientific rigour

On AI manuscript review tools, what they can do and what they cannot

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