Elizabeth Bruton discusses 'objects on display that have never been seen before'
One of the most interesting historical views of cybersecurity in 2020 was on display at London’s Science Museum in the exhibit TOP SECRET: From Cyphers To Cybersecurity, which marked the 100th birthday of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the United Kingdom’s intelligence and security organisation. World War II coding machines, secure Cold War telephones, and machines infected with historic cybersecurity threats are among the more than 100 artifacts on display. The person tasked with pulling the exhibit together was Elizabeth Bruton (pictured), curator of technology and engineering at the Science Museum, who told The Irish Times, “We have objects on display that have never been seen before; they’ve been declassified for our exhibition.”
The Avast Blog caught up with her for this Q&A about assembling the exhibit.
Avast Blog: In TOP SECRET you pulled together historic espionage artifacts with contemporary cybersecurity items. What do they have in common? Why do people need to understand both of those worlds?
Elizabeth Bruton: The exhibition explores over a century of codes, ciphers, and secret communications from the First World War to the present day, through the lens of the centenary of GCHQ. For as long as people have been communicating, they have wanted to conceal or keep secret and secure their own messages while revealing the messages of others. This is a central theme that runs through our exhibition, from rare historic cipher systems on loan from GCHQ and on display in Top Secret for the first and possibly the last time through to cutting-edge cybersecurity objects, also on display in our exhibition.
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