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  • Digital Fortress! I don’t think it had plot armour (I’ll spoiler tag it as it was the very end of the book):

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    The password was to stop malware (that was leaking all their secrets in real time) and every wrong guess sped up the process. Also their brute force machine was the thing that was caught by the malware in the first place so maybe they were extra cautious and wanted to try and solve the riddle?

    It’s been like twenty years since I read the book though so maybe I’m misremembering. Cool story though (or at least my younger self thought so), taught me about how the NSA can read your messages years before Snowden.