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Imagine trying to explain the concept of Cybersecurity to someone from 100 years ago (lemmy.zip)
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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Codebooks, codes and use of ephemisms to describe scertain things are very, very ancient.

Using electric machines with sophisticated software can be tough to explain, but I'm sure those who used cyphers to encrypt their messages as far as 18th century warfare or even earlier can get around that fancy thing that also does it for them for they don't need to memorise anything.