regarding Dan Brown

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quoted from elsewhere:

Technically (and I know what you meant) Dan Brown's first two novels (written solo) were Digital Fortress and Deception Point.

Deception Point is an X-Files episode written by a 6th grader. With crayon.

Digital Fortress is certain, if you have any connection to the IT industry, to make your eyes bleed. I guarantee that the second time Dan "I research everything carefully" Brown confuses bits for bytes you'll want to set it on fire, and everything about encryption he says is so wrong you'll wonder if he learned it by reading Chinese web sites on encryption passed through babelfish.

Angels and Demons is not as bad as those two, although I have the original copy that had the front page saying basically that although the story is fictional, everything he says about antimatter is 100% true and fact-checked through careful research.

Then he says antimatter was discovered in 1991. I mean seriously: even people who's sole knowledge of science comes from Star Trek reruns has heard of antimatter.

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He does the same in Digital Fortress, saying that he conferred with NSA specialists when writing it and one of those even proofread the novel.

I wasn't sure if maybe they only skimped the novel, until he states that breaking a cipher by brute force will take twice as long if you double the number of bits in the key.

So now my question is, who were those specialists? The janitor?