Digital Fortress.Digital Fortress Digital Fortress is a novel by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press (ISBN 0-312-26312-0). Plot summary Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and head of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) cryptography division, finds herself Dan Brown St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
175 Fifth Avenue, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10010 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0312995423 $7.99; 430 pp. Imagine if you will, a computer generated algorithm with the ability to stifle and bewilder any hacker anywhere in the world. This algorithm would have the ability to protect the privacy of all transmissions on the internet. Dan Brown's Digital Fortress proposes that the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. could build an agency with a computer so powerful that it could decipher any 'Privacy Code' used by security technicians, unless a 'Digital Fortress' code was developed to thwart that code-breaking computer. Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller that held my attention with escalating drama and plausible dangers to the two heroes who are acting to save and preserve the United States' intelligence computer from a massive and invasive virus. This book is a fast read and an enjoyable thriller. You will enjoy the suspense. Marty Duncan, Reviewer www.omagadh.com |
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