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Encryption: Who Holds the Keys? In an opinion that prophetically predated the computer age, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, “Ways may some day be developed by which the government,…

David Becker stepped out onto the scorching tile concourse of Plaza de Espana. Before him, El Ayunta miento-the ancient city council building-rose from the trees on a three-acre bed of…

A computer cannot think, so this means that in order to get it to do any useful work, a user must provide it with a program. A program is a…

“A ring?” Susan looked doubtful. “Tankado’s missing a ring?””Yes. We’re lucky David caught it. It was a real heads-up play.” “But you’re after a pass-key, not jewelry.” “I know,” Strathmore…

Susan Fletcher sat at her computer terminal inside Node 3. Node 3 was the cryptographers’ private, soundproofed chamber just off the main floor. A two-inch sheet of curved one-way glass…

My achievements have been shaped through the golden opportunity of being in the same group (CtrlS) for a period of more than 10 years. This duration has exposed me to…

Becker gazed down at the cadaver. Even hours after death, the Asian’s face radiated with a pinkish glow of a recent sunburn. The rest of him was a pale yellow-all…

The past decade has brought about drastic changes in the availability and use of electronic materials, particularly the pagers, cell phones, computers and recently the internet. Advancements in technology and…

Tokugen Numataka stood in his plush, penthouse office and gazed out at the Tokyo skyline. His employees and competitors knew him a sakuta same-the deadly shark. For three decade she’d…

Introduction Legality, piracy, ethics, effects, moral dilemmas, motives, age, involvement, types – encryption are all main issues in Computer Crimes in todays world. How do we determine someone fate? Computer…

David Becker had been to funerals and seen dead bodies before, but there was something particularly unnerving about this one. It was not an immaculately groomed corpse resting in a…

Spain. I sent David to Spain. The commander’s words stung.”David’s in Spain?” Susan was incredulous. “You sent him to Spain?” Her tone turned angry. “Why?” Strathmore looked dumbfounded. He was…

“Ensei Tankado is dead?” Susan felt a wave of nausea. “You killed him? I thought you said-“”We didn’t touch him,” Strathmore assured her. “He died of a heart attack. COMINT…

The real productivity of an organization lies in the fact that how effectively, it uses its funds and how effectively the funds of the company would be utilize in a…

Systems security technician Phil Chartrukian had only intended to be inside Crypto a minute-just long enough to grab some paperwork he’d forgotten the day before. But it was not to…

Art has been known to be part and parcel of our daily living since the ancient days whereby cavemen painted on walls to express their inspirational feelings and ideas that…

The twin-engine Learjet 60 touched down on the scorching runway. Outside the window, the barren landscape of Spain’s lower extremadura blurred and then slowed to a crawl.”Mr. Becker?” a voice…

Susan’s mind was racing-Ensei Tankado wrote a program that creates unbreakable codes! She could barely grasp the thought.”Digital Fortress,” Strathmore said. “That’s what he’s calling it. It’s the ultimate counterintelligence…

Although Ensei Tankado was not alive during the Second World War, he carefully studied everything about it-particularly about its culminating event, the blast in which 100,000 of his countrymen where…

“Where is everyone?” Susan wondered as she crossed the deserted Crypto floor. Some emergency.Although most NSA departments were fully staffed seven days a week, Crypto was generally quiet on Saturdays….