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[2013]
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After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA Numbers Station where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death...
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A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb: whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption in existence, effectively owning the digital world. The question is: Who will build it first, the United States or China? The latest of David Ignatius's timely, sharp-eyed espionage novels follows CIA agent Harris Chang into a quantum research lab compromised by a suspected Chinese informant. The breach provokes a mole...
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[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"As our time spent online increases, our need for strong encryption to keep our data safe also increases. Learn about mathematics that are the basis of encryption, plus cyberattacks, digital currency, and cryptocurrency"--
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2022.
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"Cloudmoney takes us to the front lines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom, from marketing strategies against cash to the weaponization of COVID-19 to push fintech platforms, and from there to the rise of the cryptocurrency rebels and fringe groups pushing back." --Publisher.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA Numbers Station where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death...
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2000.
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"Practically since humans began writing, they have been writing in code, and ciphers have decided the fates of empires throughout recorded history. In The Code Book, Simon SIngh offers a sweeping history of the subject of encryption. Combining a storyteller's sense of drama with a scientist's appreciation for technical perfection, he traces the evolution of its methods and reveals its dramatic effects on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary,...
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2018.
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Blockchain technology enables the creation of decentralized currencies, decentralized applications powered by smart contracts, self-executing digital agreements, and intelligent assets that can be controlled over the Internet. Blockchains also enable the development of new governance systems with more democratic or participatory decision-making, and decentralized (autonomous) organizations that can operate over a network of computers without any human...