Heddy Lamar, War Criminal?

[Brett Coley]

Hey, you gonna call her a war criminal, at least spell it "Hedy Lamarr".
:-)   Anyway, here is some background info below from Deja News, and
also found some refrences to a web page

     http://users.deltanet.com/users/dstickne/hedy.htm

that I could not get to.

A take on all this?  Wow! It is like something out of a 40's movie,
rocket scientist/movie star escapes from Nazis to develop torpedo
guidance system.   Hmmmm.  Seems like a Philip K Dick universe, where
reality is being shaped by B movies.  I was afraid enough people would
quit believing in cause and effect and this would start happening...

Regards,
Brett
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  Lamarr wanted to work at the newly established National
 Inventors Council in Washington, D.C., but was told she could do
 more for the fight against the Nazis by using her star status to
 sell war bonds.
    But that wasn't enough for her. She was full of ideas, including
 one on the radio control of torpedoes. She'd sat with Mandl as he
 reviewed films of field tests on torpedo systems, and now her mind
 began to explore ways to circumvent the jamming that kept the
 United States from using radio-controlled missiles against the
 Germans.
    As one of her sons, Anthony Loder, recalls, ``(She and Antheil)
 were sitting at the piano one day and he was hitting some keys and
 she was following him, and she said `Hey, look, we're talking to
 each other and we're changing all the time.' ''
    Together, they worked on the idea. A simple radio signal sent to
 control a torpedo was too easy to block. But what if the signal
 hopped from frequency to frequency at split-second intervals?
 Anyone trying to listen in or jam it would hear only random noise,
 like a radio dial being spun. But if both the sender and the
 receiver where hopping in synch, the message would come through
 loud and clear.