{"id":15,"date":"2006-10-01T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-02-25T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T23:20:44","slug":"digital-fortress-dan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/digital-fortress-dan-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thriller, 5\/10 &#8211; September 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/digitalFortress.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThe notion that all codes are breakable (the make believe &#8220;Bergofsky&#8217;s Principle&#8221;) caused me to laugh out loud and continue to laugh the whole way through the book. What if the thing TRANSLTR is trying to decrypt is a random piece of junk?<br \/>\nThe fictitious scalability of TRANSLTR (i.e. can crack a 64 &#8220;character&#8221; key in ten minutes and a 10,000 bit key in an hour lol \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude00 hahahaha \ud83d\ude25 ) together with the ridiculous hacker attack at the end are pure humour.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Then I felt kind of bad ridiculing the books encryption facts because I guess any piece of fiction can&#8217;t live up to scrutiny from someone fascinated with the subject matter. The book was kind of fun actually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thriller, 5\/10 &#8211; September 2006 The notion that all codes are breakable (the make believe &#8220;Bergofsky&#8217;s Principle&#8221;) caused me to laugh out loud and continue to laugh the whole way through the book. What if the thing TRANSLTR is trying to decrypt is a random piece of junk? The fictitious scalability of TRANSLTR (i.e. can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}