Why Small Clues Can Unlock Massive Breakthroughs

Code breaking is very difficult if we don't know what we're looking for. But if everybody always keys in the first five characters as the name of their girlfriend. Okay, code breaking becomes a lot easier because we know what we're to expect.

There was certainly one very valuable German who they didn't want to they were absolutely desperate that this chap didn't get attacked because every single day he was in some absolute bloody middle of nowhere posting in the middle of the desert in North Africa and every single day he would post exactly the same thing which was nothing to report in so and so so and so.

And of course that meant code breaking for the Enigma machine became incredibly easy because you knew exactly what he was actually saying. You just had to find out the combination of uh dials that would actually lead to this outcome.