Friday 16 April 2010

Digital Fortress




So, I've owned this book for about . . . . . 5 years, and have never felt the desire to read it. I'm a big Dan Brown fan, I loved 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Decpetion Point' and 'Angles and Demons' but this book never gave off good vibes to me.
Until now!
I randomly started reading it about two weeks ago, and I seriously can't put it down!
The story follows the National Security Agency (NSA) in America, who have the worlds best mathematicians working as Crytologists working to decypher/snoop out suspicious phone calls and emails and basically protect America from future attacks.
95% of the world are unaware that the NSA exists, and is protecting them everyday. And what the NSA is keeping top secret is that they have a multi-billion dollar machine called TRANSLTR helping them decode almost every email sent.
Until someone claims to have created an unthinkable unbreakable code 'Digital Fortress', and is planning to auction it off to the highest bidder, and this will inevitably destroy the NSA's plans of protecting the USA.
But, the creater of this algorithm dies unexpectantly and the passcode to this algorithm is lost.
So the race is on for the NSA to find and destroy the code, before its too late!

This is an amazing book with lots of twists, action and useful information.
I will definatly be buying 'The Lost Symbol' next!

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