Cryptography (or Crypto) is a secret writing to hide the message that is actually being delivered. Some say it has been around since 1900 BC in Egyptian times when they used hieroglyphics. Pretty much, cryptography is necessary when communicating over any un-trusted source, including any network on the internet. Also, crypto is hard math. Marcus does not go into detail in the book, but it sure sounds complicated. From what it sounds like, the crypto is only as good as the person that made it, and you would want to use a crypto that has been around for a while because it hasn’t been broken yet, versus a new crypto that hasn’t withheld the test of time and hackers.
I was very shocked that Marcus’ parents made him go to school so soon after coming home. I guess though, they may have been more lenient if he had told the truth instead of telling them he was stuck in a shipping container on the docklands. My mom probably would have let me stay home for a few days to recoup. I enjoyed the encounter with the owner of the Turkish coffee shop. I think this situation begins to opens Marcus’ eyes on how the attacks have affected businesses and people from other countries. I was a little shocked at how dependent Marcus was on Wikipedia, but that is just how we are these days. I thought it was genius that Marcus burned twenty ParanoidXbox discs to hand out to people he thought would use them and get in on the underground network. I didn’t see where the book was about to take us with this. I had no idea that people would follow like they did.
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