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Welcome to Cryptonomicon. We are pleased you have arrived. Others were not so lucky.
But one step remains before you will have access to Neal Stephenson's new world. A password, derived from encrypted information out there, out on the World Wide Web. You are so very close. Now please follow these instructions.
A. Search the Web to answer the following questions:
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#1 What is the ISBN of the paperback edition of Neal Stephenson's novel Zodiac, excluding the first zero and the dashes? | |
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#2 What was the name of the Asian city that features prominently in The Diamond Age? | |
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#3 What is the term for a virus transmitted either through bitmap-encoded computer programs or through drugs injected into the bloodstream? (Also the name of Stephenson's second novel.) | |
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#4 What is the middle name of the leading character in CRYPTONOMICON? | |
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#5 What is your social security number? | |
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B. Write the answers to these questions on the reverse side of your decoder card.
C. Insert the card back into your decoder. D. Reading from left to right, starting with the top row, is your password. Type it in the space below (password should be in upper case).
....and prepare for... ...CRYPTONOMICON... All information herein is classified and highly confidential. Trust no one. Share this information with no one. This will not be our final communication.
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