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The Barbie Typewriter That Introduced Girls To Enigma Cipher (Without Their Knowing It)

If they told you that the Barbie children’s typewriter you gave your children that Christmas was actually some kind of Enigma machine that could produce secret messages, you would think they have gone crazy. But the truth is that Mattel, one of the largest toy companies in the world, sold a series of Barbie-themed typewriters during the 1990s that could encrypt messages and decrypt them…