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Though "white" from a post-WWI perspective, IMO it will be hard to find anyone more deserving in IT than Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, aka #HedyMamarr.
"...received a patent for an idea of a radio signaling device, or "Secret Communications System," which was a means of changing radio frequencies to keep enemies from decoding messages. Originally designed to defeat the German Nazis, the system became...