The DCAC code is at the beginning of the book, and I reckon this passage is there to tell the reader that this book is the equivalent of the obfuscated code and it can be deciphered using the numbers. This goes a step further and hides it from most security too: it arrives in parts and self-assemblies. This is less than that, but it's still like reading a book where all the stories are jumbled up and there's just a line of numbers at the beginning to tell you where to start. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review. Sophisticated software can have millions of lines. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. A machine doesn't care about the order of transmission, only the instructed sequence of execution and operation, but for a human, obfuscation makes the cose very hard to understand. It's all jumbled to make it hard to analyse or identify. I've been reading Gnomon again recently (actually mostly listening to the audiobook and using my physical copy to clear things up and make notes), and I came across a passage in the chapter 'Require Me To Pretend' where Bekele, Annie, Colson and some others are discussing Turnpike's imminent compulsory purchase of the Fire Judges company and the obfuscating cyber attacks on the company.Īnnie says - "They've broken the attacking code into parts. Gnomon Nick Harkaway Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Knopf Date JanuFiction Literary Speculative A sprawling science fiction novel set in a futuristic London where all of society is monitored and controlled by a seemingly beneficial AI called 'The System. Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it.
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