To be a code breaker you first need to intensively study the current coding methodologies. From this the code breaker would get a great insight into the developments of new codes. It is not necessary for Simonetta to be the actual code maker. Simply to be the mastermind of the operation. If he was the actual code maker then this would mean he was devoting a lot of his time to matters that would not necessarily protect his position. Keeping an eye on developments around him would have been of paramount importance in the political climate of his time.
Maybe as a means of gaining a stronger footing in the political heirarchy he comissioned the VMS to contain information that may have become useful at a time of instability. However, if this was the case it did not help him in the end. Maybe it was even the reason for his death perhaps.
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