Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices

[petro]

>>  From: 	petro[SMTP:petro at bounty.org]
>>
>>  >From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt at coil.com>
>>  >Subject: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices
>>  >Cc: iang at systemics.com
>>  >
>>  >http://www.iang.org/crypto_fiction/
>>
>>  >A Fire Upon The Deep
>>
>>  	You missed "A Deepness in the Sky", written by Vinge, and
>>  published in 1999. Crypto plays an important part of the story, and,
>>  well, it's Vinge, it's worth a read.
>>
>... as does privacy, surveillance tech and it's avoidance, etc. Excellent
>book.
>
>But....
>
>Did you catch the hint that they're running an Unix-descended OS? ...it's
>pretty
>well hidden.

	Do you mean the reference to layer upon layer of cruft and 
dependencies, or the time in seconds thing? (It wasn't that well 
hidden IMO).
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