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Review title: If you've never read anything on cryptography...
Product review: .. you might not be insulted by this one.I made it about 90% through this one, but have decided not to finish it. The information he cites about the NSA and cryptography contain so many flaws as to be laughable. It's *FULL* of *MAJOR* errors that any editor or reviewer with even moderate technical savvy should have flagged before it went to print.And that's too bad, because the basic plotline would scarcely have suffered if he had been more correct in his description.The basic thriller plotline isn't badly done, it's what kept me reading this far, but I stopped because of the idiocies mentioned above and the fact that the characters aren't "real" enough to keep me engaged more.I *might* finish it later, but I just have too many books in my queue from authors that write "smarter" books.
