Satya's blog - Digital fortress
I'm reading Dan Brown's
Digital Fortress, which is all about
computers and cryptohgraphy.
It's Brown's usual mix of fact and fiction,
only this time I know what's what.
The story is good, but it has little grounding in reality.
What kind of sysadmin performs maintenance and upgrades by soldering chips
into a computer, on his back, in the 21st century?
(Where the solder can fall onto his face, no less!)
It's very interesting as long as I pretend it's all in a parallel universe.
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