A straightforward Dan Brown thriller, if by straightforward you mean vastly underpaid Georgetown professors sticking their heads into drinking fountains and forcing their strange dietary habits on unwitting squash partners.
We also hear from some experts on language and cryptography (and general human behavior, for that matter) about the many many things Mr. Brown gets extremely wrong.
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We have Dumb Sentence of the Week, we Steal People’s Mail, Mike is challenged in Real or Fanfic, Conor hacks into the NSA to steal some of their crap, and also, Mike does a short set at a local comedy club using the humor of our sexy, chiseled leads!
For next time: Read through chapter 22
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This book seems like it was written deliberately to irritate me in particular. In college, I majored in math and Asian studies with a Japan Studies concertration. I’ve always had a particular interest in number theory and cryptography. Before the pandemic, I was in grad school for Cybersecurity and before that I was a computer programmer. The horny misogyny is merely the cherry on top for me.
Someone recommended this book to me while I was in college and now I’m glad I didn’t read it then, because I think I would have had an existential crisis.
I will say kudos to the Diffie-hellman key exchange fanfic, that was half of a very good explanation…maybe too good which is how I knew it wasn’t real.