When I was a little, everyone who knew me thought I was odd. I never wanted to play with dolls and I didn't enroll in ballet or gymnastics. Instead my paramount interest was numbers. For years I carried around math flash cards and liked to entertain my parent's friends by adding, subtracting, and multiplying in my head. As I grew older, I quickly moved on to more mature themes, devouring linear algebra, differential equations, quadratic reciprocity and stochastic processes. Computers were my only friends and the Internet, my playground.
Today, some twenty years later, I'm still fascinated with numbers, computers and code. But this time around, I'm getting paid for it as an information security technologist with the U.S. National Security Agency, or NSA for short. Most of us call it the "No Such Agency" because we are so secret. Before the Edward Snowden scandal -- the guy who filched all that top secret info -- less than five percent of Americans even knew we exist.
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No One Lives Twice
Mystery / ThrillerLexi Carmichael spends her days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. Even though she works for a top secret agency, she's never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini or shot a poison dart from an...
