Yeah you know how it is when honor suggests you should just get a rusty ax and go for it, and common sense says she isn’t worth it in any way :P

You don’t know that for sure :P

My understanding is that they actually used these originally at the location Bletchley Park where the museum is, in the same huts in fact, to decode and help refine their code breaking processes in WWII. They already have the Lorenz cipher machine with the cogs on loan from a Norwegian museum but needed the matching…

Was the software *outsourced* to, shall we say, somewhere renowned for copy/paste and spaghetti code? And I don’t mean Italy ....

Nato also threw away their own Northern Distribution Route (rail thru Baltics and RU to Afghanistan) by noising up Russia who were previously happy about it.