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TalkBook Discussion : The Jungle by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul

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1Andrew-theQM
Nov 13, 2017, 7:11 pm

Did you have any ideas why all the computers were on the rig?

2Sergeirocks
Nov 14, 2017, 6:07 am

Only after we heard the ultimatum to the White House: then I assumed they had been used to crack the President's daily nuclear launch codes. Can't think of anything else they could have been used for in the current scenario.

3Carol420
Nov 14, 2017, 6:27 am

I believe they were used to construct something that is beyond big...that can crack any firewall or security code anywhere in the world. When Juan's two computer nerds couldn't crack the firewall...this had never happened before.... I started thinking "super Computer" somewhere. A thousand individual computers would be impractical but using them to construct one really,really big, really, really smart one would be. It would also be really scary.

4bhabeck
Nov 14, 2017, 8:36 am

I didn’t. Though I considered hacking, I never guessed it was on this scale

5Olivermagnus
Nov 14, 2017, 9:17 am

I thought they might be planning to close down the power grid but didn't expect those demands.

6Andrew-theQM
Nov 14, 2017, 4:27 pm

Could never have guessed this, not until we were told more details anyway.

7EadieB
Nov 14, 2017, 5:00 pm

Didn’t know until we were told.