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Ann Caracristi, Who Cracked Codes, and the Glass Ceiling At NSA, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this story at The Washington Post about the life and death of Ann Caracristi. From the article: "Ann Caracristi, who became one of the highest ranking and most honored women at the code breaking National Security Agency after a career extending from World War II through much of the Cold War, died Jan. 10 at her home in Washington. She was 94. ... Ms. Caracristi formally retired from her intelligence career in 1982, after becoming the sixth deputy director of the NSA . . . She was the first woman to serve as deputy director. One of her strengths was reconstructing enemy code books, said Liza Mundy, a former Washington Post staff writer who is working on a book about U.S. female code breakers during the war. Admired for her early accomplishments as a young woman in wartime Washington, Ms. Caracristi was credited in her later career with providing leadership for new generations of code breakers and for her efforts to bring computers and technology to bear on the work. ... One of her jobs at the NSA was as chief from 1959 to 1980 of branches devoted to research and operations. Her honors there included the Defense Department's Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the National Security Medal, among other top federal honors. After retiring, she began serving on a variety of prominent scientific, defense and intelligence advisory boards and committees."
Did she at least have to pay for the ceiling she broke?
Dear NSA,
We will always hate you, no matter how many articles you write about women, Snowden, or "saving the world ". Fuck you.
Sincerely, We The People
She hates us and wants us to die.
Admired for her early accomplishments ...
Back when we knew what the NSA did, and it was more useful than 'not really surveillance' meta-data retention that many other governments have imitated.
That's why they flood the streets with gunz
far more important than any of her achievements: SHE HAD A CUNT AND BROKE THRU THE GLASS CEILING!!!
Fuck yeah, she will be the popstar of all the little girls! girls will want to be like her! They are so weak minded, you must tell girls what to want to be! Clinton as next woman president!!
Those republicans do hate minorities and women.
You're replying to a post about a Republican that's an Sikh Indian woman. Liberals hate facts.
Ahh, shit, you're onto us. Call it off, everyone! We've been found out! ...so much for the Atheist Satanist Raw-Aborted-Fetus All-U-Can-Eat Buffet meetup this Sabbat. And we had Barack Hussein Obama and Bill and Killary Clinton and Osama bin Laden and Alistair Crowley on the guest list too :( That would have been one hell of an orgy.
She supports rape which is why the pukians selected her.
And if you look within the multiplicity of meaning, what she really said was even worse.
Ms. Caracristi was a real brainer
I had opportunity of meeting her decades ago and came away very impressed
But ... like so many other brains, she worked for the wrong boss
No, it is not a sin to break codes - the only thing is that NSA has more interests in playing the role of a big brother sidekick than actually protecting our country
RIP, Ms. Caracristi !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I'm Indian and she is not.
Glass ceiling is a term that only originates from the late 1970s.
I suppose, like the supposed pay gap myth, it had more to do with women's lifestyle choices and propensity to stick their nose to the grind wheel rather than actual barriers of entry.
Madam Curie and Florence Nightingale showed women leaders can make it far earlier than that. I guess what it's all about then, is not to try to get equality, but like how it's been demonstrated over and over again that not enough women simply enroll in CS when free too (or even when incentivized).... to cheerlead them onto a certain path whether they really want to or not.
> The Constutution requires it. Those Republicans are morons for demanding he not do the SOTU.
It's the Constitution, and please provide a citation for your claim that the Republicans demand he not make it.
... Barack Hussein Obama and Bill and Killary Clinton and Osama bin Laden and Alistair Crowley on the guest list too :( That would have been one hell of an orgy.
Darn. One must have been either gay, or* blind, or* very very high to enjoy that one.
(*or = inclusive or, not XOR)
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The ONLY relevant point to this article is that she was a WOMAN. That is the ONLY reason it's on 'Climatedot'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is dead, sorry. But he is a very powerful magician, so he might not be, something like Schrodinger's Cat but with Satanism instead of Quantum. They both end with 'm', so there are sympathetic vibrations.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
She never married, so no glass ceiling broke here.
When the NSA spied on our enemies, not on us.
'Feels like only one filled up this thread with replies to himself...
Yes moved from the Army's Signal Intelligence Service under William F. Friedman the US Army's best cryptologist.
William F. Friedman really wanted to work with the UK in early 1940 but was blocked by the then powerful US Navy that was duplicating US decoding efforts and did not want to share with the US army.
William Friedman was then focused on diplomatic encryption systems eg Japan.
By 1946 the post war agreements over sharing and 5 eye got a lot of attention, a new way to collect all due to new sites long term.
A later fear for the NSA was that the emerging EU would have a lot of complex national encryption systems that would lock out the NSA and US interests. US and NATO pressure ensured the NSA could always backdoor all emerging crypto products the EU was offered. The US would ensure Western Europe would always revert to plain text on any system ever used or allowed to be used.
Ann Caracristi moved from Japanese to Russian military codes, got to the "supergrade" civilian equivalent and then moved to A Group, ie Soviet mil codes.
Russia knew its was totally open to US and UK collection but had so much material to move one time pads could not keep up.
So Russia had to use machine efforts just to ensure speed and the ability to send ever more material. The network was understood to be weak and the US, UK collected all into the 1960's.
The Rainfall results followed into the 1970's getting bulk Soviet material.
Collect it all was always the mission since before WW2 for the US and UK just under different groups and funding.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Every so often, I browse Slashdot comments at 0, just so I can see what the AC's are going on about.
It's sort of like looking under the refrigerator. Momentary disgust then getting up and forgetting I ever saw that. Life is too short.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Why is this marked as 'Troll', when it is the truth?
Wouldn't that be 'true matriot' in her case? Now she will just be remembered as another one who was part of the group who destroyed the constitution.
Actually, she is a Methodist American born, that is of Indian ancestry. She is not a FOB.
That's how they do.
Because there was never a time when the NSA spied on our enemies, and not on us.
Anyone who worked at NSA without repenting is a traitor. Having a vagina does not erase this.
Wasted life
1 down, 39,000 to go.
The logical consequence is to encode crypto-people who can undertake missions and not be debriefed if they are caught. Just to be sure, hunt them down and kill them.
Spotted the millennial.
No, the NSA was not invented by George W. Bush in 2002.
I'm shocked Ms. Caracristi was not merely a woman, but also a woman of color, a lesbian, and an autistic midget.
We need somebody more representative of glass ceilings breakage in the feel good news.
A former NSA employee appearing in the news for something GOOD?? There must be a mistake here. :P