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Aug 30, 2014
This book is rather the same as Deception Point - an exiting and somehow sick crime story about code-breaking, so there is no secret message in front of Big System. This book also shows that some highly placed members of the system can act arbitrarily and order the elimination of persons who "are in the way" to them or the System. The Japanese programming genius who allegedly invented an unbreakable code is ordered to be assassinated by the head of the code-breaking monster's institute. It's known he has a weak heart and a foreign pro assassin is engaged to fire at his chest a "trauma pod," which hits, causes heart attack and falls apart so as not to be obvious to observers. All persons connected with the Japanese guy are killed by the hired assassin, and although the code-breaking monster cannot solve the Jap's puzzle (because it's actually not a secret code), the people involved realize the Jap put up there another puzzle for them, which they solve in the last moment, before it causes damage to national security. Lots of people killed in the action, but for me the message is that there is no secret before the eyes of the Big System and there is no unbreakable code. The book gave me a rather bad feeling, and it wasn't entertaining at all as other thrillers usually are. Read Ted Flynn's book: "Hope of the Wicked", where he says that every phone conversation is scanned by giant programs in 200 languages and even coded messages are being opened up by them. The System invests big in having an eye and ear on us.