Fletcher investigates and deduces that Greg Hale is actually working for North Dakota. Tokugen Numataka makes a series of phone calls to North Dakota, where he learns that the state hired Hulohot to assassinate Tankado so they could release the algorithm without any struggle.
He talked to several people about this and one of them turned out to be an assassin who killed all of those people by shooting them in the head with a gun equipped with a silencer (Hulohot). While investigating, Becker learned that Tankado gave away his ring just before he died. The ring contained a code that would unlock Digital Fortress and the NSA wanted it back. They asked David Becker to go investigate because Tankado had given him something before he died. It looked like a heart attack, but the NSA suspected that it was murder. Tankado was found dead in Seville, Spain.
In order to prevent this, they plan on stopping him before he can do so. The cryptographer discovers that the code was created by an ex-NSA operative who has become disillusioned with the agency’s actions and decides to release it into public hands unless he receives a response from them. The book also explores themes of government surveillance and the flow of individuals’ private data.Ī code is presented by the National Security Agency to its cryptographer, Susan Fletcher. 1-Page Summary of Digital Fortress Overall SummaryĪ techno-thriller novel by Dan Brown called Digital Fortress (1998) talks about the government’s supercomputer, TRANSLTR, which has been used to violate Americans’ privacy rights.
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