Enigma to Cybercrime

Rika Chandra
8 min readJun 16, 2021

An interview with Rox Burkey & Charles Breakfield

You might recall watching ‘The Imitation Game (2014)’, focusing on the pivotal point in World War II when British mathematical genius, Alan Turin and fellow mathematicians break the infamous German Enigma code.

Let’s rewind to September 1939, specifically two weeks into the occupation of Poland, where tensions were high and morale was dipping dangerously low. And four very brave polish codebreakers were smuggled into the UK with the replica of the Enigma machine. This was the start to…

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Rika Chandra

Artist, Architect, Designer and Writer with a geeky passion for spreadsheets and a curiosity about people, history and cognitive dissonance.