Digital Fortress | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

NSA - A government organization that gathers global electronic intelligence data and protects all classified U.S. information.

EFF - A civil liberties coalition founded by a worldwide group of computer users to support free online speech.

COMINT - The global reconnaissance division of the NSA that uses satellites, spies and wiretaps to intercept conversations and send them to the NSA for analysis.

Crypto - The nickname for the Cryptography Department of the National Security Agency.

Sys-Sec Lab - The department of the NSA that monitors systems security for TRANSLTR and the main databank.