Trash

Con conceptos informaticos imposibles, una historia mas plana que que una linea muerta, personajes cliche a tope,decir que es basura es halagarlo

همه حق دارند تا رازهایی برای خود داشته باشند.
اما آیا برای تامین امنیت افراد جامعه، یعنی هدفی والا، می توان حریم شخصی افراد را نادیده گرفت؟ آمریکا برای امنیت ملی جامعه خود به تمامی اطلاعات و ارتباطات سراسر دنیا سرکشی می کند. سالانه هزینه گرافی می پردازد تا با بررسی حساب های کاربری اینترنتی و اطلاعات رد و بدل شده بین افراد، مانع بروز حملات تروریستی در کشورش باشد.
اما چه کسی نگهبانان را نگهبانی می کند.

انزای تانداکو، نابغه ژاپنی که زمانی برای سازمان امنیت ملی آمریکا کار می کرده است، از وضع موجود به ستوه می آید و تلاش می کند تا با استفاده از حربه های خود سازمان، اطلاعات طبقه بندی شده سطح بالای آمریکا را فاش کند. او می خواهد طوری به دیوار دفاعی پایگاه های اطلاعاتی حمله می کند که هر فرد عادی بتواند به اطلاعات ملی دست پیدا کند. همان افرادی که همیشه زیر نظر بوده اند و به حریم شخصی شان تجاوز شده بوده است.

نکته جالب داستان جاسوسی افراد سازمان از یکدیگر است. کارمندان و مدیران، رمزهای عبور یکدیگر را هک می کنند، به حساب های کاربری یکدیگر سرکشی می کنند، و حتی خارج از سازمان یکدیگر را زیرنظر می گیرند.

Not bad, if you ignore a few things.

Like a TV movie thriller - entertaining but shallow!

TRANSLTR is perhaps the most powerful multiple parallel processor computer on the earth, run by the National Security Agency, dedicated solely to the process of brute force code breaking. An extraordinary weapon against crime, drugs and terrorism, TRANSLATR clearly has enormous potential for human rights abuses and Ensei Tankado, a brilliant program and disgruntled former NSA employee is determined to find a way to pull this abusive tool out of the hands of the government. He has written DIGITAL FORTRESS, a complex algorithm that renders clear text into unbreakable code, and, unless the NSA acknowledges the existence of TRANSLTR to the world with a full confession of its true power, Tankado will release DIGITAL FORTRESS to the world. Of course, this would render TRANSLTR instantly obsolete and chaos would become the order of the day. Drug cartels, terrorists and other criminals could secretly communicate with complete impunity and US internal and external intelligence would become effectively blind. Tankado delivers his blackmail ultimatum and is promptly murdered by parties unknown. Of course, the frantic chase is on to find the key to DIGITAL FORTRESS and bury it before it is released through the internet to anyone who has a modem.

When Brown sticks to the "techno" side of techno-thriller, he is a master on solid ground, indeed. Brown's side bars about computer software and hardware, codes and code breaking are exciting and informative. Revolving around puzzles, viruses, worms, firewalls, mutating code strings and the internet attempting to hack into US government data classified "top secret", the climax of the novel moves at top speed and is definitely finely tuned edge-of-the-seat stuff! But novels by their nature must be populated with characters and here Brown fails rather badly, producing folks that can best be described as trite, cardboard and clichéd. Susan Fletcher, the brilliant but beautiful cryptologist with an IQ of 170, is the first to step up to the plate as a stereotype (I can clearly see the movie version now where she makes the transformation from computer nerd to ravishing hottie by taking off her glasses, pulling the bobby pins out of her tight bun, dropping full-bodied hair onto her shoulders with a provocative head shake and undoing the top button of a silky blouse!) Her fiancé, David Becker, a mild-mannered foreign language specialist from Georgetown University, discovers he has the abilities of a master spy and is able to elude the efforts of a professional assassin. Sadly, virtually every character Brown pulls into the story can be criticized in the same fashion as being singularly off the wall and unbelievable.

Don't misunderstand - DIGITAL FORTRESS is a quick read and is thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining! But like most every one hour made for TV thriller movie, it is also eminently forgettable in very short order and has nothing at all to commend it as being memorable!

Paul Weiss

Not a bad debut. The inaccurate and slanderous portrayal of Spain aside, this was pretty good, a fun ride, a little immature but really enjoyable. Considering Brown set out to best Sidney Sheldon, one of SS's books impelled him to start writing his own, to pen a "better" thriller. I'd say he achieved his aim not sure if that's a victory. DB is horrendous with the background. Say what you will about Sheldon but he got his research right, well most of it anyway.

Read this during good times when the world was a little less gray, it was never innocent not even in 2005, so nothing but affection for Digital Fortress. Miss those days. I believed in humanity then.
Then I met people and became an Audioslave song.

So Good

Definitely a fast-paced book that was breathtaking at times which took me into the world of of cyberism and national intelligence. What I love about this book was that the heroine, Susan, was a female. Not only that, but she was one of the important asset to breaking the code.

As we may know or realize (or not), our government has many top secret infos and files with top-of-the-line technologies, firewalls, and so on. Imagine when someone was blackmailing the agency and was on the verge of exposing the database to viruses/worms/hackers, that person dies before the agency was able to obtain the passkey to stop the destruction. This book will take you on an exciting adventure in a male-oriented (like Cidamon said) world, and you should not be disappointed (hopefully!)

You know how some days you just feel like eating candy? And then more candy, maybe topped off with ice cream, cookies, cake? Some days that is okay. Until you get to about eight o'clock at night, and your body has reached a point that is beyond satiation. And then you think to yourself, just one last cookie. Your stomach is telling you don't do it. It's gurgling and protesting the hours of abuse it has already taken, but you keep thinking about how good that cookie is going to taste. So you do it. You eat it, and you find yourself regretting it almost immediately. You realize, in the end, that it didn't taste that good. In fact, you realized it was far too much, and you wish you could take it back because now, well now you have a full blown case of the stomach aches. And you completely regret your gluttonous behavior.

That is what Digital Fortress feels like...gluttony for your brain. It was strangely addicting, completely entertaining, but had no substance whatsoever. And I think my brain is probably a little dumber for having read it. Maybe it was because I had just read Brown's Deception Point, and the last thing I needed to do was chase it with more mind numbing ridiculousness. Maybe it was because this is Brown's freshman go...his first novel. And I should give it one star. I know I should. But because it was entertaining, I had to give the guy some credit.

However, when you set up a main character to be a genius...and I quote, "His eyes fell the length of her sleder torso - to her white blouse with the bra barely visible beneath, to her knee-length khaki skirt, and finally to her legs...Susan Fletcher's legs. Hard to imagine they support a 170 IQ, he mused." I'm not going to parse the whole thing. I'm willing to accept that stock thrillers such as this are rife with hackneyed descriptions of people, in particular women, such as Brown's "sexy" depiction of Fletcher. I don't read these books because I'm expecting F. Scott Fitzgerald. I read them because they are entertaining, period. BUT...notice that Fletcher has an IQ of 170. 1.7.0!!! Is that even possible? I don't know.

The point is that she's this genius decoder, right? Super smart and totally able to decode some of the most complicated cipher. And yet there are very extremely completely obvious "ciphers" right in front of her face that she does not get. Really? I'm no genius. But I got them right away. So I thought that really wasn't so great. And you are this completely smart and perfectly beautiful woman, and you know when all these various men are totally into you. But the crazy one, who is so obviously into you, you don't see? Even when it's in front of your face all the time? It reminded me too much of that one Patricia Cornwell novel with this one Kay Scarpetta character who is supposed to be a genius as well. But she does some really ill advised...STUPID...things. Um, not sure I understand how someone is a genius and then suddenly isn't a genius. So that was annoying.

I also think Brown cleaned up his act when it comes to sex after this novel. This bordered on a Harelquin Romance extravaganza! The feminist in me screams out in protest at such garbage. I'm all for chemistry and attraction. But I revolt at silly depictions of the perfect woman and the perfect man falling in love. They are both just sooooooooo attractive and sooooooooo smart. And they have the most perfect jobs and perfect lives. Ugh! There wasn't anything really graphic. It just felt cliche and empty.

And finally, the climax. It just went on and on and on. Oh dear me, just get to the point already. It was no longer exciting when all the brainiacs in the NSA couldn't solve the freaking mystery which was right in front of their faces! And the whole thing was going to blow up, and of course the perfect couple can save the day in the end. Because they are perfect and that is what they do!!! I just couldn't suspend my disbelief anymore, so there were some serious sighs. Some eye rolling. Some straight out laughs. It was far too melodramatic.

Now to be fair to Brown, I have now read all of his books, and I've obviously enjoyed them, mostly. And I think now that he's written a few thrillers, that his writing has improved. He's no longer focused on sexual liasons between characters. And while his stories are completely unbelievable, they are also entertaining. The guy isn't proclaiming that he's the next Hemingway, after all. He's selling a product. I just think that from now on, I'll take my gluttony in smaller doses.

Another lousy one of Mr. Brown. I hated it so much, I left it in another country after finishing it. I don't even know why I pushed myself til the end to read this load of bollocks.

All this government secrets and code breaking anonymous crap would've been "wow" a long time ago. It still would've been good if it was written in a way a person can enjoy it. No, apart from that, it's again the same predictable, lame story line with so many repetitions. Unbelievable.

I was thankful to the piling up snow outside cos that was the only reason for me to sit in one place and finish this book. Cursed myself after and shot myself to a galaxy far far away to get the bitter taste left by Digital Fortress off my head, but that's another story.

This book is a must read for everyone who works with SOFTWARE development. Definitely amazing!

Full of twists and turns, and in true Dan Brown style, fast paced to keep you turning the pages. I had an inkling quite early on, but even that came with a twist!

دان بروان الساحر
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الروايه كبيره ومرهقه لكنها ممتعه من بدايتها الى نهايتها
الرجل ده بيعمل سحر فعلا
ازاى تقدر تكتب الاثاره دى كلها مع عرضك لكميه المعلومات دى
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كنت بقرا ولسان حالى "الرجل ده بيقول كلام كبير انا مش فاهمه ههههه ^__^ D:D: "