Enigma machine
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Sep 22, 2026
Matt GallowayHOST
Mm
Ben MacintyreGUEST
... who, a wartime machine, and it was a kind of British Canadian version of the Enigma machine.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
It was, it produced what was thought to be unbreakable Telex messages, which had actually been phased out more or less by the time that McCreedy arrived in Tehran, but it was the only machine they had.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
So, and it was a huge, cumbersome thing where you had to type out using sort of two fingers, a very elaborate text, then feed it back into the machine to get a, a, an enciphered text, which would then be sent by radio burst back to London.
Robert MaginnisGUEST
Uh, you know, the Germans had, uh, a very, very good device during World War II to keep their secrets, and it was a, basically a machine that had-
Michael SavageHOST
The Enigma, the Enigma machine?
Robert MaginnisGUEST
That's right, the Eni- Enigma machine.
Robert MaginnisGUEST
And Alan Turing, who was really one of the original AI fathers, uh, worked on it.
Robert MaginnisGUEST
Uh, and so I understand that the whole code issue we do not understand.
Steve StocktonHOST
Since the early 20th century, codebreakers have tried to apply every known decryption method.
Steve StocktonHOST
During World War II, the elite cryptanalysts who broke the Japanese Purple Code and the German Enigma spent their spare time on the voyage.
Steve StocktonHOST
They failed miserably.
Steve StocktonHOST
If it is a cipher, it is one of such complexity that it predates the mathematical understanding of its time by centuries.
2 HRS 40 MINS LATER
Steve StocktonHOST
When police examined the book, they found two incredible leads on the back cover.
Steve StocktonHOST
Five lines of capital letters that appeared to be in cipher.
Steve StocktonHOST
To this day, the world's top cryptographers, including those who broke the Enigma code, have been unable to crack it.
Steve StocktonHOST
And there was an unlisted phone number belonging to a young nurse named Jessica Jo Thompson, who lived just 400 meters from where the body was found.
Etienne NewmanHOST
In 1941, it took literally the brightest minds on Earth.
Etienne NewmanHOST
building the very first foundations of modern computing to crack the Enigma code.
speaker_5HOST
Yeah, Turing and his
Etienne NewmanHOST
team.
35 MINS LATER
speaker_5HOST
The human bottleneck evaporates.
Etienne NewmanHOST
To really illustrate the raw, autonomous problem-solving power we are dealing with here and how these agentic loops actually work, we have to bring this back to the historical parallel we mentioned at the very beginning of the deep dive.
speaker_5HOST
The Enigma cipher.
Etienne NewmanHOST
Right.
Damnit MaurieCORRESPONDENT
Benedict Cumberbatch is in a real cool movie, um, called The Imitation Game.
Damnit MaurieCORRESPONDENT
The Imitation Game is about the mathematician/genius, but socially awkward, closeted homosexual, um, uh, with a sort of secret keeping, uh, that he's been doing his whole life, who is hired by the, uh, British intelligence agency to crack the Enigma code, and the Enigma code is the-
Taylor SwiftSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Really?
Damnit MaurieCORRESPONDENT
... is the machine that the Germans were using during, uh, World War II.
JoeHOST
Right.
JoeHOST
was actually had next to her because there was some sort of, not Enigma machine, but she had some sort of coding or decoding, had a hammer so that if anyone ever was to, she received a phone call like, fucking, it's go time, she was to smash this thing up with a hammer.
JoeHOST
Really?
TroyHOST
Yeah.
Brian LastHOST
But, uh, Jim, let's get to TripleMania and talk about whatever it is that you saw.
Jim CornetteGUEST
Do I, do I need the goddamn Enigma machine from World War II to decode what the fuck it is that you are speaking to me today? You're going around your elbow to get to your wrist in almost every part of, of trying to bring something up here.
Jim CornetteGUEST
Now, what are we talking about?
Brian LastHOST
That's kinda my sound.
AminHOST
Sometimes it solves things we thought were impossible.
LeahHOST
Like the Enigma code.
AminHOST
Yes.
AminHOST
GPT-6 Astra just cracked an unsolved World War II Enigma message.
LeahHOST
Which is a monumental achievement for cryptography.
LeahHOST
Carter Leffin, he's a product development coach at Bloomberg.
LeahHOST
Yeah, and the AI broke it in roughly 10 hours.
AminHOST
10 hours.
Bill DockeryGUEST
Oh, yeah, especially for large organizations.
Bill DockeryGUEST
But, you know, the thing about QDA not being known, if you know some history, you know about the Enigma machine, right? You get in the security classes, they always talk about the Enigma machine, right? And what was it? You know, the access had a device that could keep their confidentiality, and they didn't know we hacked them.
Bill DockeryGUEST
And that was what happened there.
Bill DockeryGUEST
So when I say Q-Day publicly, we have adversarial persons in the world, in the globe, right, that may not be copacetic with us right now and leaving out names and trying to stay very far away from politics, but note that we're not friends with everyone.
Bill DockeryGUEST
Oh, yeah, especially for large organizations.
Bill DockeryGUEST
But, you know, the thing about QDA not being known, if you know some history, you know about the Enigma machine, right? You get in the security classes, they always talk about the Enigma machine, right? And what was it? You know, the access had a device that could keep their confidentiality, and they didn't know we hacked them.
Bill DockeryGUEST
And that was what happened there.
Bill DockeryGUEST
So when I say Q-Day publicly, we have adversarial persons in the world, in the globe, right, that may not be copacetic with us right now and leaving out names and trying to stay very far away from politics, but note that we're not friends with everyone.
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