Being related to the software industry, I savored the flavors of the
Digital Fortress. Quite typical of Dan Brown, The Digital Fortress is
also spiced up with lot of action and thrill. Rightly described by
most of the critics as highly electrifying, the protagonist of the
story is NSA’s code breaking machine. Just like the damsel of our
bollywood movies, the entire fight between the NSA and the villain
revolves around the same code-breaking machine.
The secret intelligence US agency called the National Security Agency
is in the knowledge of only three percent of the US nationals. It is
in trouble when faced by an unbreakable code. The ’larger than life’
machine decrypts all kinds of emails and coded messages to even
decipher the impossible codes to sniff any threat to the country or
government. It works at an unbelievable speed and is the most priced
possession of the ultra secret agency. All this the time is exposed to
the unbreakable code infused by the Japanese genius, Ensei Tankado.
The code has set the poor code-breaking machine in an infinite loop.
Susan Fletcher, (obviously good looking, all of them are) the
cryptographic head is trying to break the code while her fiancée
chases the Japanese. The machine is heating up and the threat of it
blowing up the entire multi-billion dollar agency is growing with each
second. Why wouldn’t the NSA head just plug off the code-breaking
machine? Will Susan save her love or her country (she is faced with
that kind of choice and here no prizes to guess the answer! Read it
for how she does it)?
But in the end, just ask yourself is that mail you just sent exclusive
to you and your reader(s) or exposed to the eyes of prying eyes. Well,
anything is possible?
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