![]() ![]() After precursory research, Fletcher discovers a former NSA operative Ensei Tankado created the code. ![]() Commander Trevor Strathmore reaches out to the NSA’s head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, asking her to try to break it. The novel begins as members of the United States’ National Security Agency encounter a piece of code that TRANSLTR is unable to break. The novel explores themes of government surveillance, the flow and security of individuals’ private data, and the unintended effects of technological change. Digital Fortress (1998), a techno-thriller novel by American author Dan Brown, concerns the events that take place after an advance in cryptography foils the secret government supercomputer, TRANSLTR, which has been used to violate Americans’ privacy rights. ![]()
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