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[theweaselking]

Mavis Batey, the last of the Enigma codebreakers, has died.

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[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

“So I thought, great,” she recalled. “This is going to be an interesting job, Mata Hari, seducing Prussian officers. But I don’t think either my legs or my German were good enough because they sent me to the Government Code & Cipher School.”

[tyoko.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an incredible story, and an increible person. My life became possible because of people like her...

[trail-of-fire.livejournal.com]

<3 Telegraph for putting her in the SF Obituaries section. Not everyone would have done that.