Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress Is Not Very Strong

Okay, I had to post this. I’m reading Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress (the portuguese edition), and I’m on a page where, under attack, the NSA computer security system is described having 5 levels of protection, and I quote:

“- We have five levels of protection – explained Jabba. – One primary Bastion Host*, two sets of FTPNT filters** and X-Eleven***, one blocking tunnel and, finnaly, a PEM**** authorization window copyed from Project Truffle.”

Now that you know that FTP and X11 and PEM are protection levels for the friggin NSA comes the best part! The Editor’s notes:

* In a system connected to the global network, it’s the only pc that it’s possible to connect from the exterior, being in charge of managing the accesses.

** – File Transfer Protocol (then translates to portuguese correctly)

*** – More correctly X11. It’s a Windows Operating System from Macintosh

**** – Privacy Enhanced Electronic Mail (then translates to portuguese correctly)

Now excuse me while I ROTFL…

[tags]Dan Brown, Digital Fortress, stupid translations, NSA, ROTFL[/tags]

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