Pyramid of Hissop. Prashkevich G.M.

The story “Spy in the Jurassic period” was first published in the journal “Ural Ranger” (1974). The author had no intention to continue the adventure of the spy, but there was success: one after another (sometimes with large breaks) were written: “Spy against a computer”, “Itaca is a closed city”, “Catching the wind”, “Happiness by the column”, “Happiness”, “Dispute with the devil”, “Sentenced”, “Man from the morgue”, finally, “Pyramid of Hissop” (2019); That is, this cycle was written for more than forty -five years. It is no coincidence that the author of the article “Ruby-Centric Operating System (Reflections on Operating Systems and the Confrontation of Linux and MS)”, posted on the professional computer website Ruby News (30/30/30/2004), wrote: “I advise everyone to read the series of Gennady works Prashkevich under the general name "Notes of the Industrial Spy".

The “Prolog” provides a list of 20 techniques for mining information, divided into two groups: legal and illegal (the latter, by the way, two and a half times more than the first). Accordingly, the “consultation” (the office for which the hero worked) had diverse employees. The main, of course, is special according to extremely illegal methods. The “digitalist” was mentioned there - a cross between today's concepts of “hacker” and “cryptograph”. By the way, the word "digital" seems to me much more capacious and accurate than "hacker". Hacker - the one who breaks (if you translate literally), that is, a computer vandal. Digital - outside of good and evil, like the numbers themselves. ”

I think, this is said.