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Time for another book review.  Another Dan Brown's masterpiece.  You see, I couldn't get my hands off books, especially from this author.  Just a quick, simple review here.

Sorry, dark image, poor lighting.  Concern over copyright.

The Title:  Digital Fortress  

1st Published : 2004

This time it has nothing to do with cult, belief, religion and such.  It is pure science, and modern days concern, the data security, internet privacy and the kind.  The story evolves around few days of a scientist, brilliant mathematician, or a senior cryptographer life, whose main business was breaking codes and 'hacking' everyone else's emails, messages, or conversation through wired connection, mainly the internet.  Although she and her employer, National Security Agency (NSA) claimed they were doing it in the name of securing the world's peace, by intercepting potentially harmful data, and making sure any evil plan be stopped before it is executed.  They succeeded few times, silently preventing destruction of a city and all kinds of stuff.

Her superior, created a great decoding machine, called the TRANSLTR,  which have the ability to break any code, password, in any length, without breaking a sweat.  If the existence of such powerful machine be known to the world, the would be great chaos as this means privacy is not exist on the internet.  The NSA mission would fail.  

However, the objection didn't only come from the outside, it also came from inside of the organisation, by someone so genius, with dark past, that he vowed he would create a program that would deny the TRANSLTR ability, an unbreakable code.  But then, he was killed immediately after the code was released and made available for public to download.  Anyone in possession of the code would be the most powerful being in the world.  Unfortunately, there was password, and it was missing.  True to his word, even TRANSLTR couldn't break it, and hence the frantic, desperate search for the password.  NSA to stop from anyone else get the code and bury NSA forever, and other people to be hugely profited from it.

Like always, the search, the chase, killings, tremors, mysteries, emotions and everything, again be mixed in a great melting pot like this one book.  Recommended read if you can at least understand what is internet and why privacy is such a great thing to be protected.

Next book on the wishlist:  Dan Brown's Deception Point.

Happy reading..