Codesmith

Technoids get especially irritated. Though a few see him [Bill Gates] as the ultimate vindication of their breed, the rest maintain their sanity by considering him the Gladstone Gander of codesmiths, a guy who just happened to get a lucky break […]

The use of ciphers and coded messages became more sophisticated, with codesmiths and cryptanalysts playing a crucial role in both sending and deciphering secret communications.