Iguana:
arrow Ah, but as it says in Digital Fortress, it's a commonly held misconception that Fat Man used U-239 (yes, U-239, not Pu-239), when it really used U-238.So clearly he's right, and everyone else is wrong.
Dan Brown says lots of good stuff.
You can brute force a code without knowing the encryption method.
It's possible to have a reversible encryption method in which the text randomly changes.
That Delta Force can do whatever they want, as given by Presidential Directive 25.
Source:
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/bizarre_facts/deception_point.htmlPresidential Directive 25:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd25.htmThat all the stuff he wrote about the
Priory of Sion in the Da Vinci Code is true.
Quote:
LAUER: How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that
actually occurred? I know you did a lot of research for the book.
Mr. BROWN: Absolutely all of it. Obviously, there are--Robert Langdon
is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret
societies, all of that is historical fact.
Source:
http://www.danbrown.com/media/todayshow.htmThat
Quote:
a new technology called TEMPEST can intercept what you are typing on your keypad (from 100 feet away through a cement wall.)
Source:
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/bizarre_facts/digital_fortress.htmlWhat TEMPEST actually is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPESTAnd so on, and so forth.
It's not so much that nearly everything he writes is made up, as the fact that he continues to assert that it's true, and that so many people believe that it actually is true.
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